Thank you, Mary. We have a heat pump, the original one, but we never use it. We heat with the wood stove exclusively.
I'm so angry right now. Ladyhawk had someone cut a lock on the nestbox of her bantam coop and steal two young Coch'anvers, a pair, out of it, sometime after 2:30 a.m. Thank God that her beautifully barred son of Isaac and his little pullets were in the front section or they'd probably have been stolen, too. The deer hunters are all drunk in the woods around her, shooting all night long, and spotlighting, and she lives in a n'hood with "special" people anyway, so hard to say who did it or exactly why. That's really hurtful and cruel!
If I feel I'm in danger of stuff like this, I
will get another dog and a BIG one, too, mark my words.
Well, we'll be leaving in a little over an hour or so. Hopefully, it will be a fun trip. The birds will be mad, having to go inside on a sunny day very early, but hey, they'll live.