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We topped out at 9.5 inches of snow in Spanish Fort. It’s dropping back down to 19 tonight. School is out for the rest of the week because they couldn’t get in to do inspirations for damages today due to snow/ice on the roads. So tired of being cold.
Mobile, AL, just down the road (10 miles away) has broken the 130 year old daily record of snowfall with 6.2 inches and counting.
No flurries here, but it is hard to stay warm, especially when you have a house on low (3′) stilts and no skirting to allow potential flood waters free movement. No rugs on the floor makes for cool feet throughout the day. Then there’s the constant breeze off the bay. 🥶 36°, feels like 27°.
If the new staff house (whenever it happens) is on 6′ stilts like the new front office then double brrr!
Nubbins is four months old now and settled in quite nicely. He’s more rough and tumble than Nougat was at his age. We’re waiting for him to get a little bigger (5 pounds and/or 6 months old) and then it’s his turn to get fixed and microchipped.
We have a new friend. Little guy hitched a ride inside a camper’s fender on the 11th. We tried to take him to the shelter or have a rescue take him, but the shelters were closed or don’t take cats and none of the rescues called us back. My husband felt sorry for him and decided we would keep him.
We took him to the vet last Tuesday and found out he was 2lbs and (probably) 8 weeks old (at the time). He’s settling in well. He’s been dubbed Nubbins because he has a nubbin of a tail.
Nougat was not pleased at first, but she’s coming around fairly quickly.
Husband got a promotion and now is the manager of Meaher State Park in Spanish Fort. His official first day was July 1, but he’d already been working there for two weeks. The previous manager passed away mid-May due to cancer, so it’s bittersweet for him to be taking it over.
We’re settling in the new place, but most of our things (including all but one of my Windstones) are in climate controlled storage right now because of how small it is. Supposedly there is a new, larger staff house coming, but things move SLOW in state agencies so I’ll believe it when it’s here.
My one Windstone that’s here is an older young unicorn grab bag that paid a visit to drag0nfeathers to have the horn replaced after it broke in our last move five years ago. It made it safely to our new home and is tucked safely away in a dresser so it isn’t nibbled or knocked over by a cat since the display cabinets aren’t available right now.
Move is around the corner now (plan to be moved by Father’s Day). We’ll be going a little further south to Spanish Fort.
Started packing my Windstones today. Still need to locate several of my boxes for bigger sculpts. So far I have plenty of packing peanuts to replace the ones that shriveled over the years.
Had to repack the unicorn colt boxes three different times because I put the wrong thing in them twice and didn’t realize it until I found the box for the other piece and played hide and seek before realizing they were in the wrong box.
Hip is killing me getting up and down off the floor. Groaned in pain a little bit ago.
Move is on the horizon. Don’t want to have to pack everything up to move. Not to mention that some things will likely end up in storage at first because the schedule for replacing the staff house where we are going hasn’t been established yet.
