February Blues

 It's February and it's pretty quiet around here.  That's okay with us.  We got our 2nd shot and prepared for the cold weather.  Fortunately, it didn't last too long here, but zero is cold enough for us.  

Now we're in the February blues days.  Foggy, snowy, rainy, back to foggy, etc.  The big excitement for today was discovering water on the floor in the basement.  That's never a good sign.  We started searching for the source.  Nothing appeared to be leaking, but I had just run a load of clothes in the washer.  

A drain problem?  

We decided to check the cleanout on the sewer line and sure enough, there was standing water.  We were hoping it was only plugged up.  Retired Mountain Man decided that we could use our chimney cleaner tool for a snake to unplug the drain.

It's called a Wohler Viper and to clean the chimney we attach a brush.  It seemed like it would work as a Roto-rooter for this job.  He was right.  It worked!  What a relief because we had both been trying to picture in our minds about how to get a septic tank truck here on the snowy roads, plus add digging up the lawn over tank in the middle of winter.  

Whew!

I'm posting a few videos of our February life.   We have a spare game camera in our yard as we have been trying to catch the elk on our camera.  They have been in the yard a couple of times, but we didn't have the camera set up. (You can get a better look if you choose to view the video full screen)

It takes some nice video and most of the photos are of the deer who are trying to get at the grass in the lawn.  It's also near the satellite dishes, one for the TV and another for Internet.  Too much snow and they have to be brushed off.    

Here I am in my bag lady outfit headed back from cleaning off the dishes early in the morning. 

Later in the day I am blazing a trail to said satellite dishes with my snow machine.  

Let's end this post with a bit of Keb Mo Blues.