January has come and gone and I never got around to writing anything in my blog. It has been a very cold winter with temperatures below freezing most days and many days in the teens. Fireplace felt good.We converted from an electric heat pump to a natural gas furnace. They came the coldest week of the year to install the new furnace. First they removed all the ducts and put in new ones. This meant we didn't have central for a week. Used electric radiator type heaters and it kept the house warm, plus used a lot of kilowatt hours.
Also in January our new electric stove arrived. We ordered it in December from Sears. Bo and Tom came on a Saturday and it took about 5 hours to fit it into the space the old one occupied. Works like a charm. Now I can bake and things won't burn. 
We aren't the only people remodeling. Shown here is my brother Perry's "country condo". He bought this 66' mobile home off Craig's List and had it brought to land at Pine Level that belongs to Carol's brother. Perry spends a lot of time at Mt. Olive Baptist Church in Pine Level and wanted a place to go when he's out there working. Carol will have her art studio on the east end, with a lot of natural light. They were adding a deck on front when we went out to check on the progress last week. 
Jim snapped this picture of me on January 31st. I was seated at my computer one morning when he said "look up". This is our work station wall. The TV we use to watch the news at breakfast every morning, then my computer desk, with Jim's "Man Cave" behind me. We spend a lot of time each day at our computers. Jim reads newspapers first thing in the morning and I like to check my email and facebook. Then I usually have some work to do on the computer.
Tomorrow I will write about my latest project - planning for homecoming at Elba United Methodist Church and 100th anniversary of our church sanctuary - Feb 13, 2011.
Note to Guy: I'm back in business writing my blog. Sorry you missed reading it every day. I'll try to write more.
