Thursday, November 21, 2024

Winter Prep

One of the perks of being here is that DH can just walk right out the door to hunt 

                                                                     

which pretty much makes this hog heaven for him

                                

It'll be nice to head into winter with good meat in the deep freeze. Yesterday, DH spent some time up on the rooftop securing a few screws.

We had our first winter storm roll through here on November 7. It just lasted a few days, but mountain snows are beautiful.

I might feel differently if we had months and months of it, but this area doesn't generally get a ton of snow.


We just ended up with about 4 or 5"


And today it's 70 and I'm washing windows so mother nature is making her own rules.

The day before the storm moved in, we worked on bringing in more wood. 

We're just getting started, and hope to bring in more than we'll use so that we'll be ahead of the game for the future.

The weather made me want to bake something, but the oven's out. 😢 

We thought it was the ignitor so we ordered one and DH installed it, but still no go. DH wanted to take it in, but it's a Viking stove and it weighs a ton. We took the door off and it weighs probably 40#. I was worried about DH's back loading the whole stove and convinced him to have the repair folks come out. Alas, they were booked up solid for 3 weeks. I couldn't even bribe them with cookies since I didn't have a working oven. 😉

I considered buying one of the countertop ovens and did quite a bit of research as well as talking to friends about them. I even settled on one. Alas, I decided against it because I am pretty stingy about giving up any counter space. I've never liked having lots of things on my kitchen counters, so I'll just sweat it out.

We wanted pizza the other night so we just cooked it on the smoker - it was perfect. I even cooked egg rolls on the grill when I made stir-fry last week and Baked Apple Oatmeal for breakfast this morning

It worked great!

But I'm ready to have my oven back up and running. Thankfully, it's soup season and I don't need an oven for that!

5 comments:

Gretchen Weaver said...

I hope you get your oven heating soon! It's hard to make a Thanksgiving meal without it. Happy baking!

Anonymous said...

Your new home is so beautiful. And snow is the icing. Sorry about your oven; bad timing, but Thanksgiving menu from the grill sounds good, too. Funny story: One time, in my early cooking days, the weather turned lovely and mild, so I decided to roast my 22# turkey in the covered BBQ. Needless to say, the spit motor was not up to the job, so I manually turned the spit frequently. Not only did it smell delicious as it cooked, but it also had fantastic flavor. Happy Thanksgiving to you all! Lindah

Donna said...

Beautiful snow pics. My microwave is also a convection oven. I love it. It’s really nice to have in the summer when you don’t want to heat up the house. It’s great to pop in a pizza.

Anonymous said...

Our grandson bought a house and the stove burners worked, but the oven didn’t. They limped along for 3 years because money was needed for other house improvements. This Fall she bought a nice used stove for $50 but still the oven didn’t work ! Granddad (my husband) got called in to help because he’s the best (unpaid) handyman ever ! They worked over 3 hours then discovered a wire that was assumed connected, but was actually not. So the old stove was probably fine. Who knew ?

Alycia~Quiltygirl said...

Look at you cooking like a camping trip!! Love it - and hope it is fixed by now! WE got some snow too - and then 2 days later - so sunny and nice!! loved it!

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