January 3, 2008 

or those of you whom have been having problems subscribing with Pay Pal on the website, Julia got it fixed for us last night. Thank you Ms. Computer guru!! No one else could figure it out. I am a homesteader, not a script writer for code.

It is warm out. Warm enough that I let the fire in the woodstove go out overnight. Now that I have the dog sled repaired I need to start hauling in wood from the back 40 like I wanted to do last summer with my truck, but my ex said not to as he would bring it in with the tractor. I guess I should have hauled it in with my truck. I only have enough wood in the woodshed until approximately March as it never got brought up and stacked. The woodstove stays going until late May.  So I am about 2 1/2 months short of wood in there. Usually there is 7-9 months worth in there. I started out short for the season. Last summer we had to start it a couple nights in July as it was such a cold wet summer.

I figure 2 loads brought in with the dogs a day will keep me in wood, as in this weather I am not but burning 1/3 of a dog sled worth a day. It is when it is really cold that I burn almost a full sled's worth.

Wake up early tomorrow morning, The Quadrantid Meteor shower is due to reach maximum in the predawn hours of Friday, Jan. 4. The Quadrantids are notoriously unpredictable, but if any year promises a fine display, this could be it. Quadrantid meteors are described as bright and bluish with long silvery trains.  Some years produce a mere handful, but for favorably placed observers, this could be a shower to remember; at greatest activity, Quadrantid rates will likely range from 30 to 60 per hour for eastern parts of the U.S. and Canada, to 60 to 120 per hour for Western Europe.