The weather outside is frightful

My work is closed for the day. There may be updates at noon, but I am not going in. The weather is quite ugly outside and last I looked, no travel is advised.

So, a snow day! What to do on a Snow Day? Well, I played on Facebook already. I don't go on there much and I'm not sure why. I enjoy being able to poke around in people's lives fairly anonymously.

I am going to eat some cereal in a little while. I used to eat cereal everyday, sometimes more than one a day. Then, I just quit cereal and went nearly three months without it. Now, I am back on it. I realized the error of my non-cereal eating ways. Cereal is delicious.

I spent Saturday cleaning mold. Eric and I discovered mold on our bedroom wall. This is not sometimes we wanted to see. But I found a website from the Washington state government that gave great instructions on how to clean mold. So, we moved some furniture, picked up some stuff, I donned some gloves, a mask, and a hat. I went to town on the mold. We have decided to keep our room fairly empty in hopes of creating better air circulation. The windows have always had mold, but from what I've been reading that can occur in even energy effficient homes. So, it wasn't a big deal. Nor was the mold on the bathroom ceiling. We discovered its cause and we think the solution is some insulation in the attic.

But mold on the wall was new. So, I hope our efforts worked. We kept Eric out of the room while I did the mold removal since his immune system is compromised. After I finished, I laundered my clothes and hat. Don't want to spread the evil mold. We have a dehumidifier going constantly in our bedroom along with two fans.

The joys of homeownership! We also have two trees that must come down this spring. Eric had the tree removal guy come and look at the trees. They are beyond saving and he doesn't cut down trees in the winter. The two trees in question are cracked up the trunks. Sadly, we will be taking down the two other trees in our front yard as well. One of them is already starting to have the trunk crack and it just seems like a good idea to do them all at once. They are green ash trees and with the fear of the Ash Boar in this area, I think it's a good idea to take them down and start over. We're thinking a weeping willow and something else. Research still needs to be done as to what kind of trees thrive up here, you know in almost Canada.

That's my story!