Tut Tut Looks like Rain,

Rain, rain, and more rain. That is what we had this weekend and the forecast is for the week. Fall in Alaska, at least there is not any snow yet!

This week is the start of hockey season! The Aces first preseason game in on Tonight! Hopefully they have as good of a goalie as they did last year. Jacob will be going to his first hockey game! Well unless you count all the games he went to last year in Samantha tummy! They got him little earmuffs for him to wear so the noise does not injure his ears.

Sunday after church Mike and I cleaned and winterised the condo. We put up plastic on all the windows except the big solarium one. We might try to put plastic on at least one section of the solarium, because there is only one pain of glass in a section.

I also made a door draft guard for the door the goes out to the porch. And it only cost 4 dollars to do it! (what you need- one leg of an old pair of jeans, some quilt batting/ stuffing ( I had some laying around at home, thread, and 1.5 bags of pinto beans.) I took and old pair of jeans that had a hole in one leg and cut them in half. sewed the bottom of a leg closed. Sewed the edge of the leg so that the tube was one width. Then I took 3-1 quart ziplock bags and filled them about 1/2 full of pinto beans (about a 1/2 a bag each). Dropped one of the bags into the pant leg/tube. Filled the leg to the knee with left over quilt stuffing. Dropped another bag of beans in, filled to almost the top with stuffing, dropped the last bag in and sewed the top of the pant leg closed. Your done! If you wanted to you could fill the entire leg with beans but that seemed a little excessive to me. You can also fill it with sand or kitty litter, but I really did not want Java using it as a little box. The door draft guard will help to keep the cold air out of the Condo and to keep the warm air in. I will post a picture of it all done!