29.8F and overcast @ 11:45 ... cold and will get colder.
Got my hair cut and drug the razor across my face yesterday.
After that I was browsing craigs and found someone nearby had posted an ad for aquatic plants they raise. The plants looked really nice and were stupid cheap, so I texted them and placed an order for some water wisteria, ludwigia repens, java fern, java moss, and 10 ramshorn snails. I met them yesterday afternoon, halfway, @ the Dollar General to pick up my order ... nice young couple.
Currently have the plants in a 5 gal Homer bucket, need to dip them today to rid them of any hitchhikers and then move whatever is going into the 55g into it, and the rest into the 10g. The snails were put into the 10g, since I know they will reproduce and I don't want the 55g getting overrun with them. Also got all the washed gravel moved upstairs to the living room and got the other side of the shelf stained.
Got a nice surprise as well - the electric bill for January was down a good bit vs. the December bill ... and both were actual readings. Kinda a surprise, given that I had two heaters for the tanks running.
So to celebrate that, I ran over to Home Depot and picked up another 10 LED bulbs. This time I got three 100w equivalent bulbs for the living room, and moved the 60w's that were in there into the fixtures in the hall, which really lit up the hall ... kinda surprising, in that the bulbs in the hall were 60w incandescent.
Also picked up a 3/4" brass ball valve that I have to sweat on the feed pipe going to the water softener ... managed to snap the handle off that yesterday, when I was trying to close it to change the sediment filter.
Hope everyone has a good day.