Preparing for the cold

It's currently 40 degrees outside. The temp is dropping and isn't supposed to get any higher than 33 until Saturday. I've had a stash of wood in the house for the past week and a half that is nice and dry. With all the rain in the past month or so, the firewood has been a bit sluggish to get going. Once I have a bed of embers, I'm fine, but I've been having to pay more attention to the fire to get to that point lately than I like.

Tomorrow will be spent w/ my laptop in the living room tending to the fire and doing as much work as I possibly can while sitting out in the middle of the house. Thankfully, Nigel does have preschool tomorrow, so I'll have those few hours with JD in position to handle the other kids.