"I've had more trouble with myself than any other man." - Dwight L. Moody

While watching a recorded episode of Shetland last night I learned a new word: hygge HUE-geh). It's a Danish word that also occurs in Norwegian that means a feeling of coziness, contentedness, peaceful ease. In the storyline it was used to describe the way the Norwegians, especially in the north of the country where winters are long and dark, furnish their homes, eliminating anything that disrupts hygge. They spend almost all winter indoors and need it to be a comfortable and cozy space.

I find that very interesting. Shouldn't all homes, living spaces, be hygge? I think that's why we try to keep MoHo pretty neat with stuff picked up and put away. A messy place messes up hygge, as does any space, but especially a small one, filled with too much little stuff - figurines, bric a brac, etc.

Different people find different environments hygge. My mother likes to be surrounded by the elegant and classy. Our home reflects our personal version of hygee with simple furnishings that match our setting on Baker Rd.

Maybe there's a relational kind of hygge, too. There's certainly a coziness and peaceful ease in a marriage that I think can be disrupted with too much business, activity, etc. Always running to do something, never just being.

I'm adding hygge to my vocab.

After stacking some firewood and feeding the critters I got that new window in without any problems and with some help from Pam. We agree that even before it's trimmed out it looks much better than the aluminum window it replaced. More contemporary than the dated look of the old window. Besides, now we won't have to be careful when opening it lest the sliding pane fall out. This was probably the worst of the nine windows.

This afternoon I made my first dump run. The plan was to wait until the end of the month because we cancelled our $25 per month trash service effective July 1. I wanted to do a month-to-month comparison. But in addition to our household garbage I had debris from the wood stove swap and the two new windows including drywall scrap. So the place was looking extra white-trashy. I loaded up the trailer and took everything to the dump for a total of $10. I won't normally have the construction debris so making a trip once a month will work fine and save us some coin.

This afternoon was also a feed store run for hay, straw, and grain. A stop at NAPA for a fuel filter, points, and a condenser that I hope will get Sally back on the road. And a shower before our weekly cheap pizza date.

Cookies, coffee, some PBS and bed. By this time tomorrow night I hope to have Sally's issues sorted and the gal back on the road. It's bugging me.