Finally, the Chill

Below 60 this morning, now up to 63; maybe fall is finally here! It is freezing here in our home office, the least insulated/protected room of the house....it's always super hot in here when it's hot outside and super cold when it gets chilly outside....not sure why it is worse than the rest of the insulation-challenged house, but boy...it's winter in here! I used to think that it got so hot because it has it's own roof as opposed to being under the rest of the house...but maybe it's just becasue it's so separate from the house....it was originally either a wrap around open porch or a porte cochere; there was something here according to the sanborn maps, but the porch is concrete and ends at the end of the exisitng porch; I'm not sure that they would have hacked away a concrete deck to enclose a room, they would have built over the concrete. Unless the concrete was a much later addition. It is now joists and light pine floors. The room has some structural issues, termite damage, wood rot, water damaged walls...the window sils are 90% dust and 10% wood....it's on our "list", we'll get to it! I guess it just doesn't have the protection from the elements of the house.
I'll just wrap a blanket around myself and don my LL Bean "Wicked Good Slippers" when I need computer time.

OMG! It's October!

Wow, Time flies even when your not having fun! I haven't got many house items to report, been really busy driving kids around and working.....there are not one, but two truckloads of mulch on our driveway, I guess we got a little ambitious and figured we'd have all this free time to shovel much.....we'll get it moved, eventually. The weather has finally cooled down a little so it should be a more comfortable job (if moving a mountain of mulch could ever be comfortable). The mornings have been absolutely beautiful and the house actually cools down to a level below our thermostat setting. That great news for the electric bill, which became a complicated matter after fixing the A/C hot water leak sprung up under the house.....creating high electric AND water bills.....eventually, the entire house will have been fixed or replaced, so when we do go on the market, we will look good! The market is so horrible right now, we are holding off officially going up for sale.....I can't bear the thought of having to keep the place "show ready" for over a year.....
We started Halloween decorations on the front porch; nothing fancy.....one of the great things about living in an old house is the fact you can pretty much just throw up some cobwebs and put a black bulb in the porch light and VIOLA! Creepy Old House!