We had another beautiful day--sunshine with temps that reached into the 50's. This weather is so unusual for this time of November and we are really enjoying it. Bitter cold and snow can show up at any time now. We just hope it holds off until we head south.

This morning John helped JD cut up firewood for the shop. While he was busy with that, I did some laundry and changed the bed linens. John was checking on something in our upright freezer in the garage and found that some of the venison he had put in there the other night was not completely frozen. That led him to examine other items and discover that the freezer wasn't as cold as it should be--our frozen foods were defrosting.

This being a Saturday afternoon, we weren't able to get a repair person out and, with the realization that we purchased the freezer when we built the house over 14 years ago, the decision was made to get a new one. John and I stopped up at JD's to borrow his big pickup truck and headed off to Bemidji. We looked at freezers in Sears, Menards, and Home Depot. The best deal was offered by Sears, plus they had the one we wanted in stock. The freezer was loaded onto the bed of the truck and we returned home. John was able to unload it and we got it set up and running. We're so thankful to have discovered this problem before we left and now can have peace of mind that the freezer will keep everything cold.

When we got home this afternoon, there was a deer standing in the driveway on the west side of the house. That spurred John on to go hunting this evening. He sat out in the stand right behind the house, but didn't see anything. Tomorrow is the last day of this year's rifle season.