Sunday  January 25

Slept like a lazy cat all night.  Woke at 4 am, turned up the heat a few degrees, crawled back under the soft comfy covers and went into a light sleep until 6:30.  About 10 I went out for 80 more pounds of ice, hauled all the coolers onto the porch to empty the water, dragged them back in and put a new bag of ice in each cooler.  This allowed me to sort and place the foods in some sort of better order.  Extra bags of ice were placed in the warm "freezer" until I go to bed. 

 

 Bags and coolers can be placed out on the back porch before I go to bed. It looks like by midnight the temperature will drop into the 20's.  I'll see if the raccoon and bears have a party in the night.  I am so pleased that I built up muscle mass at the gym since Cliff's passing to allow me to lift properly without injuring my back or joints. 

After all that lifting and tugging I made myself a nice pasta dish with fresh spinach from my co-op pickup Saturday.  

 

Saturday's order was two bags of perpetual spinach, a bag of Russian kale, and lion's mane mushrooms................more food needed to find refrigerator space.

The sun is going down behind the trees and mountains and I dragged all the coolers out to the back porch. If I hear any noises on the porch  in the night I'll have to flip on lights and make noises.

 Temperature is predicted to be 17 degrees by 8 am.  Only 4 degrees by Tuesday morning.  I'll see what happens.  Possibly five more days of eating out of coolers.