I’ve been meaning to write this post for a while, but this month has been crazy as the holidays wrapped up and I headed off the the Far East. In fact, I’m in Singapore as I write this.

But that’s not the point of the post. We’ve taken the plunge and hired an architect to design changes to the drainage at Osage and complete plans for a roll-off roof observatory. We hired Tom Jungbluth. He has shared many good ideas and we are looking forward to seeing the plans.

We had some dirt/mud come down into the driveway in the last storms. I don’t know what this week has done and there is heavy rain forecast for this weekend. We are as prepared as we can be.

I’ve been very paranoid about freezing. Over the MLK Weekend, I turned off the water, drained some of the pipes and shut off the well. It hasn’t been very cold since then, but the tail end of this storm might get cold. Part of the plan for the observatory is to get the trapped air tanks and other well-related items inside, so less chance of freezing.

There, I’ve done it. Maintained the current almost-once-a-month pace of blogging.