It has been SO cold!! Which also means we've now had the first fire in our fireplace at our house! We moved-in in March last year, so we didn't have any fires then, and the beginning of this winter has been too weird to have fires yet. With the windchill factored in, the "feels like" temperature the past few days has been around zero and even dipped into negative temperatures at night! It's crazy. And we've had a few days with a little snow, but nothing much... But the end of this week is supposed to be snowy. The last forecast I saw was predicting about 1.5 feet of snow between Friday and Saturday, so we're making sure we're prepared for that. We'll do some big shopping tomorrow to make sure our house is well-stocked with supplies, just in case it ends up being really bad... It could also end up being nothing at all, so who knows. It's better to be prepared though!
Guinness enjoying the light snow we had the other day!
Our first fire in our house! That tree rug is fireproof so it protects our wood floors and area rug in case an ember flies out through the screen.
I'm sure we'll be watching lots of movies this weekend if it does snow, which will include some of the 8 movies nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award. In case you don't know but are curious, the 8 movies are: The Martian, Mad Max: Fury Road, Brooklyn, Bridge of Spies, The Revenant, Spotlight, The Big Short, and Room. The past few years we've tried to see all of the Best Picture nominees (I don't think we've ever seen them all, but we've been close!), but usually we've seen at least a few before the nominations... But this year we haven't seen any of the 8 yet! So, we'll see how many we end up seeing... I know we definitely want to see The Martian, and we'd wanted to see that while it was at the movie theater but we didn't get a chance. So, I think that'll happen this weekend! Lately we've been watching the 2nd season of Fargo, and it is SO good!! We loved the 1st season, but we didn't get a chance to watch the 2nd season while it was being televised, so we made sure to DVR it and now we only have 4 episodes left! It's amazing, and we're completely hooked.
As usual, we've been keeping busy around the house too!! Last weekend we ended up putting in a new dishwasher. We were going to wait at least a few months before getting a new dishwasher, but the one we wanted ended up going on a CRAZY sale, and then with our gift cards it barely cost anything! So, we bought it and went and picked it up, and Kevin installed it (with Guinness's help, of course). The only bummer is that the valve to turn the water on/off to the dishwasher ended up springing a leak (the plumbing in this old house really likes keeping us on our toes... ), so Kevin is going to fix that this week.
Guinness stood right by Kevin, whining and making noises.
Here's Kevin cracking up. Guinness was "talking" the whole time.
Then Guinness decided he needed to get a toy, but he was still watching Kevin.
He's so cute. And he was soooo confused by what Kevin was doing.
Here's our beautiful new dishwasher!! We just can't use it until we fix that darn valve...
I'll keep you updated on the snow situation, and I'll take pictures if we do get a lot of snow! I know Guinness would love it if we do... He looooves the snow. I hope you're all doing well and are warmer than we are here! :)
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