Quilting and Snow

We had a very pleasant weekend, getting on top of bits and pieces on Saturday, and then quilting all Sunday. I've now installed trace heating on the pipes in the roof-space of the utility room, which should ensure that they don't freeze. It's been on the to-do list for quite some time (three years), but never hit the top of it, as conditions cold enough to threaten a freeze are relatively infrequent, and we've managed by leaving the door to the kitchen ajar on those nights.

That's suboptimal, though, so thermostatically controlled heating is an improvement. I need to wire a spur socket, to make it a bit neater, but it's now basically sorted.

Sunday was more enjoyable (no fun working through a ceiling hatch with glass fibre insulation everywhere), and we made good progress on the quilt. We now have a complete set of nine appliqué leaves, and a good number of nine-block squares, with more in the works.

Heavy snow over Sunday night meant that today's been a snowed-in working-from-home day, spent in the sitting room with the stove warming us. And very effectively, at that.

Snowy  Lane (© Ian 2013)

The house in its frozen setting, from the hillside (© Ian 2013)

Birch trees on the hillside (© Ian 2013)

View from the hillside (© Ian 2013)

The house from the future site of the orchard (© Ian 2013)