Cassi Creek: The
bottom fell out of the thermometer yesterday.
The temperature dropped slowly and steadily; blowing any trace of warmth
off with the north wind. It bottomed out
at 19.2°F early this morning.
Yesterday’s
cleared roads are now ready to receive a new load of snow. There is winter weather advisory for our
region. We were planning to drive into
Jonesborough to a dance tonight. Now the
dance will likely be canceled for safety reasons. We will probably spend the day catching up on
Downton Abbey, season 2. Gloria and I
have both developed a liking for this program.
I must admit I keep expecting to see a character from “Upstairs,
Downstairs” wandering into the plot.
The first
season finale introduces WWI. Of
42,000,000 (+) men mobilized for the war, greater than 52% were KIA, MIA, or
simply “missing.” The ferocity of a war
that contested inches of ground for four years is unimaginable to today’s
populace. This was the beginning of
mechanized warfare, industrialized slaughter on a scale never seen before.
I’m curious
to see how the 2nd season will deal with the war and the changes it
brought to Great Britain.
While
cleaning out the stove today, something in the ashes caught my eye as it fell
from the shovel to the ash reservoir. I
managed to find and retrieve it. It turned
out to be a hollow setscrew used to keep the door handle for the front door of
the wood stove functional. If I had
missed that small screw, I’d be looking for parts to a six-year-old stove while
the stove did nothing but occupy space.
The day is
damp and cloudy. I’ll be feeding the
wood stove for the rest of the day.
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