Living East Coast Style!

 What is living East Coast Style you ask? Some might think it is talking with a New York or Boston or Philly accent while ordering a cheese steak, clam chowder or perhaps a lobster roll. Others might think it is walking the beaches and boardwalk in Jersey or OBX. (For those of you non-east coasters, OBX is the Outer Banks). Well, it is none of those, living east coast in our house means waking up at 4am and going to bed at 8pm. Apparently, our bodies are on east coast time, at least if we lived there, we would be waking up at 6 and going to bed at 10! But no, for the past week or more, here we are stuck in the 4am, 8pm cycle.

But one nice thing about getting up early is that I can have breakfast before I go out deer hunting! The word for the week when it came to deer hunting was frigid! With highs in the 20's and lows in the single digits, it was frigid out there in the stand. Although I did not shoot anything with my bow, I did manage to get some great shots with my camera!

While at first glance this guy looks like an awesome buck, another angle shows you how aggressive he is with several broken times on his rack. 

Then there was this guy who is an amazing buck but is not destined for the freezer, well at least not our freezer. 

As you can see from the frost and snow on the deer and the surrounding trees it was a bit chilly out there. The fog and frost made for another really cool windmill picture!

Both Barb and I learned a valuable lesson this week about using a hot tub in cold weather. Each, at separate times, we got out of the hot tub went to the sliding door and grabbed the handle with wet hands. Our hands instantly froze to the door handle ala The Christmas Story. Luckily, we did not have to call the fire department to have our hands removed from the handle, but it was a lesson we will....well, we will probably actually forget it and freeze our hands to the handle again soon!

But none of that is the reason any of you tuned in this week. I, like you, have been anxiously awaiting the unveiling of the headboard Barb made for our bedroom. So, without further ado.... drum roll........

Pretty amazing right?!?!? For perspective, these boards started out as this....

So, you can see why these boards required cutting new edges, sanding, planing, and varnishing before they became the finished product. 

That's really it for this week. I have been working on the workshop and loft but nothing picture worthy. 

I think I have found a fix for email notifications for the blog. So, if you want to receive an email when we post a blog, please send me your email address as a comment. I will not publish your email address, but I can add it to the email list! 

And no blog is complete without a picture of Ms. Zoey, who has taken to sitting on top of the couch to watch whatever Barb is doing on the kitchen island. 

Have a great week!