New World Datsuns...

The pond has frozen over except for where the water from the filters drops into the water.
It is so thick I believe I could walk on it if I tried.

Here are the fish.

Looks cool...and cold.

I had an issue with the pond last night, it got down to 14 degrees and where the water comes out if the filters it plugged/froze up and blocked the water from getting out of the filters, the filters over flowed onto the ground, but the in-feed to the pump is near the surface, so the pump went dry, that way it don't pump all the water out of the pond, I lost 4/5 inches of water, so I broke the ice layer up on half the pond to raise the water level in the pond so the in-feed would be under water again, I don't want to put tap water with chlorine in the pond right now and stress the fish.
The ice layer is around 3 or more inches thick, the air between the layer of ice and the water is how much water I lost.

It's supposed to rain next week, that will re-fill the pond if it rains hard enough.
I put a fish tank heater in the outlet tube, I am hoping that will keep it from freezing up tonight, otherwise I might have to turn off the pump when I go to bed tonight.

Lost power for around 30 minutes, just when I had everything going so I could have even watched TV the power came back on.
I have an inverter, it runs off 12 volts, and I have a lot of vehicles around here with batteries, I might have lasted a week if I just kept the house warm, the groceries could have been kept outside, and I don't actually need TV to survive, the computer was on a backup battery so it was not effected, although with the modem plugged in, it said I only had 51 to 61 minutes on the battery before auto shut down.
It was interesting, I was looking at an electrical devise when the power went out and I seen a spark.

I was asked this question today, "If you have one million dollars what would you buy first? - A house?".
The first thing I thought of was sad, I thought buy a politician so I could turn that one million into ten million.

Man, don't get me started.

I am supposed to start hauling firewood home tomorrow, the tree is around 3/4 feet at the base, it was really tall.

Time to welcome more bruises and ibuprofen.

Gonna be a toasty winter.
Funny how pain is so often the price of comfort.

I think it was around two and a half cord, took around 7 hours to load it and unload it and get it in my back yard sorta stacked, it was 3 regular loads that didn't need strapped down.
I am not taking Plavix anymore so I am not bruising like I was before.

So I moved another 2+ cords of half dried wood out from in front of my window and put it on top and behind the fresh wood, my back yard is looking better and better every weekend.

Get all that heavy work done. It's fixin' to get hot down there.

It was over 90 when I finished, I would split one and stack it then go inside and drink a lot of water, sit in front of the computer for 10 minutes and then repeat the process all over again, I could not get the rounds all the way on top, so I split them.

Don't feel like you need to impress me.

I will not likely burn any of this wood this coming winter, it is for the winter of 2018/19.

It says it is 108 degrees in my back yard right now.
Tropical fish could live in my pool right now, the water is 79 degrees.

Ewwweeee! Only 99 here right now.

It's dropped 5 degrees, it's now 103 at 6pm in my back yard.
It's 82 in the house, I have the AC on medium, it was 83 degrees 4 hours ago, I guess it's not that great of an AC.

Ugh, I can't wait till winter. Heat index here was over 105 for 3 days last week. That would be fine if there was no humidity. We call it "air you can wear".