The cold weather has now succeeded in closing the ice hole on our pond, creating instead an “ice mountain” where the water kept splashing up and freezing! The rest of the pond of course is frozen too, including the waterfall. Margaret went down on the ice to re-melt open the bubbler hole with hot water – we’ll see how long it can stay open this time!
Some American kids (brats?) today are apparently educated that they are the most important thing in the world and nothing / no-one else matters … their idea of a jolly fun Saturday night game is to smash other peoples mail boxes with a baseball bat!
This is the third time this has happened in the last five years, and it’s extremely infuriating 😦
When we did the addition back in 2001, we touched just about all the house, including moving the side door in the kitchen and adding a skylight – but the one thing we didn’t do was update the kitchen cabinets/etc from it’s original 1950s style. So, we’ve finally done that too – not as messy as expected, but it takes a long time …
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