Friday, January 3, 2014

Random 5 Friday

Linking up with A Rural Journal for another installment of Random 5 Friday.


1.  Weather here has been alternately cold and on the warmer side of the 60's.  I wish it would make up its mind...one way or the other.

2.  DH and I are going to be getting back into the biking thing after a couple month hiatus.  We both want/need to be back on the bikes.  Plus, with the tandem we can at last do some rides together without a mismatch of speeds...and after a 2mo layoff the bike, our speeds are wildly different!

3.  We have taken on a home improvement project.  We have torn out our old nasty wooden decking in back, with the intent of laying a nice paver patio.  The eventual plan is to build a roofed structure over most of the paver patio, to provide shade, and a place to spend time outside with friends in the evening, with ceiling fans in the structure (think like a gazebo), a fire pit, and of course the BBQ smoker will have a pad of its own to sit on!

4.  We had a nice Christmas, just the immediate family.  I got some super nice things, including a Freiling coffee press, a Spyderco Street Beat, a book on breads and home made Christmas ornaments from the kids!

5.  And amidst all the hooyah in the media and government about this latest snowstorm currently plowing its way across the northern tier and into New England, I observe that it is January, here in the northern hemisphere, which equates to WINTER!  It's supposed to be snowy up north in the WINTER!  With the sun in a significant solar minimum cycle which is supposed to continue apparently, what exactly were they expecting weather-wise?  A balmy 72*F in Green Bay?  Gimme a break...

11 comments:

  1. Your home improvement project sounds great. Post before and after pics when you're done! :-)

    My husband made some resolution to bike outside for an hour a day for 50 days straight. I'm interested to see what he plans to do if/when we get a big ice storm.

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  2. oh i love Home Improvement times. sounds like so fun is heading your way. yeah!! you enjoy! oh i agree with Lisa, please do up put before & after shots. ( :

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  3. i can't imagine doing a home improvement with my hubs, we'd kill each other lol...it's cold here in virginia...very cold today!

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  4. Sounds like a good bonding home improvement. Have fun:) B

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  5. We're very cold here in Virginia, but yes, it is winter! :-) The home improvement project sounds fun! I don't know how my husband and I would work together on a project like that though. I'd just say, you do it, and disappear. LOL

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  6. I'm already so tired of this thing called winter. They're calling for MORE snow this weekend and Oklahoma doesn't typically get a lot of snow at all. I'm READY for summer!

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  7. Home improvement projects are great in the Winter months..can't wait to see the results...:)JP

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  8. Hope you get to enjoy the bike -- that the weather cooperates. Guess winter is really here. Home improvement projects are good for bonding ... !!!! Sounds like a great project. Happy New Year!

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  9. My daughter lives 'up north' as they say and I would not want to be there for the rest of my life. You see, I am a southern gal where even the winters are not too bad. I can't imagine all that snow.

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  10. I would still love handmade ornaments from my daughter. I guess I will have to wait for grandkids.

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  11. Your project sounds wonderful -- all the hard work will be worth it! :)

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