Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr it sure is cold, especially without our heating system in the Hut. Our crafting is on hold until the system is totally repaired.
We have in floor radiant heating and a very old-fashioned and basic syste m it is too. Provides a very comfortable heat when it was working, but now that it isn’t, its freezing in there. It isn’t expensive either, I wish my home had this heating system instead of an oil furnace. So clean, all- encompassing, comfortable and downright easy to use.
Took some doing but we managed to find another Hot Water Heater with the necessary pumps and fittings and it is almost repaired. Tomorrow our heating repairman says we will have heat once again.
Since returning home from Florida this past November we have had to have the roof replaced, the vans two new tires repaired, insurances renewed, heating bills to pay, and now the heating system in the Hut needs repairing, without that heat running through the floor joists, our floors will begin to buckle from freezing. It has certainly been a very expensive few months, and so around and around it goes, hopefully 2010 won’t be the year that bankrupts us.
Thankfully most of our orders have been made and in the main house ready for shipping. It would be impossible for either my mother or I to work in there under the current conditions.
Of course on top of all this wonderful excitement I managed to bring home someones’ virus and have been coping with that since last Sunday.
Some very horrible things are happening in our world today and not man made tradegies either. Haiti as you all know has been hit the hardest. I certainly am praying that those agencies who are collecting money for this disaster will see to it that 100% of the funds raised will all be used for Haiti and not administrative costs. IF you are donating to charities for this disaster, please, please make certain that the agency will provide a receipt and that 100% of its funds raised go directly to Haiti. Discover what other items you can give if money isn’t available but you would like to help, like clothing, footwear, childrens’ clothing, high chairs, cribs, even play pens, educational toys, eye-wear (this is where your old prescription or even reading glasses will be welcomed with open eyes), hearing aids, bedding, pillows, pots and pans, silverware, lamps, beds, chairs, tables and so very much more I haven’t touched on. The Libraries will need books once these are rebuilt, the homes will need furnishings once rebuilt. There will be agencies that you may donate these much in demand items to, all you have to do is search the internet and you will find such agencies.
Right now, medicine, medical supplies, food, clean drinking water and shelter are the main much needed things to have. So when you are ready to donate even if you cannot donate money, then possibly the cellar, or the attic, even a spare room or stuffed closet may hold a donation which you can afford to give. For your information I have included a link about those agencies and other useful donor information.
This world and its weather patterns and natural disasters are things mankind can do little to avoid, but there are ways and means for all of us to be able to give help. When I stop and really think about the way my life goes day to day, I am so fortunate, I have one thousand times more than the bare necessities of life and I am blessed. When I think I have problems and then I see what this natural disaster has provoked for those people who were already downtrodden, already beleagured, the poorest of the poor, it is heartbreaking, simply heartbreaking. Unless the Universe has decided a wake up call was in great demand and now Haitians may have this one hand up instead of a hand out. Who knows, I sure do not, all I can do is pray for goodness to come out of this disaster.
If your reading this today then you and I are still above ground so I wish you a wonderful FRIENDTASTIC day and blessings upon us all.
