Mornin boys...

good morning folks. It's 37º and cloudy. It rained a bit sometime thru the night. Yesterday was chilly, but sunny. I did manage to get to the widow neighbor's house and got the mower put away and the blower started. We cleaned up the garage a bit too. She's headed back south with her daughter for awhile after Christmas. Sadly, I don't see her returning, at least not without someone living there with her. She's changed just since summer.

We may or may not have had a serious carbon monoxide problem The other day I went to put wood in the stove and there was a dead mouse on the floor by the wood stove. Didn't think much of it. Last night about 10pm I went to the basement to put some logs in the stove and there was a mouse "sleeping" on the floor in front of the stove. It was still alive, and wasn't there yesterday morning or afternoon. I popped it on the head and threw it in the stove. I don't have any poison out that I know of, and it's kind of an odd place for a mouse to take a nap. We have CO detectors throughout the house. I changed all the batteries and placed one on the floor where the mouse was and over 1/2 hour we got one little chirp out of it. I placed another in Tyler's room above the basement. This one was old and plugs in. Damn thing kept going off. I took it upstairs in the loft. Kept going off. Obviously it was bad. As a precaution, I put the fire out in the stove with some ashes and opened everything up and aired out with fans. Miss Sue ran to Walmart and bought 4 new CO detectors. Haven't had a peep out of any of them and the one in the basement has a digital readout that shows the peak reading was "0". Whew! Kinda scary. I called my firefighter friend that helped install the stove and chimney. He's going to bring a meter over Wed afternoon to check things out.

Well, I guess I'll finish up my coffee and go in to work a bit. Was supposed to have off, but nothing much to do here. I'll go in a bit today and take a bit off Wed to have the CO problem addressed. Also, I might have to be in town to wait for the UPS lady to see if she has my daughter's S&W Shield. PSA took forever to process the order and it's not here yet. Gun shop is to close at 2pm and UPS usually doesn't show until 3 or after.

Better get moving. Have a good one.

Charlie

Good morning, GoGo. It's a frosty 26 in Louisville, but we're due for sun and a high of 48, which should be pretty nice. We had some freezing fog overnight and several fender-benders, according to the morning news folks.

My final cleanup assignments are vacuuming the living room, then cleaning the toilet and bathroom sink. My younger daughter is local, so she and her family will be coming over for brunch about 10:30 in the morning.

My deer hunting buddy and I attend the same church, so I took him some handloaded .45ACP rounds as a gift yesterday. I stuffed the cases with a 230gr Federal HST bullet that appears to be the cat's meow for self-defense.

Y'all be careful if you have to get out and about today. A certain number of people will be in an absolute shopping panic and not paying attention to their driving.

Merry Christmas!

Carpman