Dehumidifier!

The dehumidifier we ordered three weeks ago finally arrived yesterday. It's been working hard since it got plugged in yesterday, and it's already collected quite a bit of water. We've gotten the indoor relative humidity down to the mid-40's, though when it's turned off the RH goes up into the 50's. But there is hope that after a few more days it will get down in the 40's and can be maintained there. The only thing now is that the unit also produces heat so we are living in a rather tropical environment. Vivvy has found herself a new favorite location -- behind the exhaust of the dehumidifier, where all the nice warm, dry air comes out!

At the Post Office today, I picked up a bicycle storage stand that I ordered a few days ago. So now we are able to store two of the bikes in the kitchen, freeing up a little room in the storage room. Elise discovered that neither of the hardware stores carry big "S" hooks. I was hoping to use them to hang the other bikes up off the floor in the storage area. So I have some wall mount bike hangers on order. Anything to free up a bit more space!

Elise and the girls rode their bikes to the Library this afternoon. It was a great day for that. Elise came back with a bit of a scrape on her elbow. Apparently she fell while trying to slowly go up a hill, following after Amy. (Yes, there is a small rise between our apartment and the city proper.) It doesn't look too bad though.

The living room looks almost like a normal living room now. It also serves as classroom, music studio, my art studio and office, and Elise's office. So as you can imagine, it is still quite crowded.




Pastor Dave Brown was supposed to come over to Petersburg from Wrangell this weekend, but he called me this morning to let me know that it would be best if he stayed in Wrangell. Their church is starting nominating committee time and he believes it best that he be there to make sure things go smoothly as possible and remain that way. He hopes to make it here next week.

The weather has warmed up a bit in the last few days. All the snow that had fallen on the lower mountains has melted away. The rest of the week looks pretty good - warm and relatively dry. But according to the latest forecast, we may be seeing colder weather come in next week.