Its for my chickens. It is a ceramic tile, 12 x 12 that has a heating element in it. It kicks on at 32 degrees, but never heats above 90 degrees. I am going to use it to set my plastic chicken waterer on. It will keep the water from freezing. It will also use much less electric than the 2 and 3 heat bulbs we have hanging over the water now. So, in the long run it will save electric, and also be a lot safer to use.

It is above freezing today, and the ice on the ground melted, but a lot of the ice on the trees is still there. It surprises me it is still there since it also rained this morning.

My mom faxed me one of my stories this morning. I orginally wrote it so that it could be added on to. So, after the kids go to sleep tonight, I am going to start missing with it. I could not find my copy of it anywhere, but I did find all my research I had done for the story. This one was a college paper. She is also going to send me the high school one that was published, but it is bound, so it can't go through the fax machine. I had several copies of it but they were all lost in a fire.

My other book, which I did complete is now more than 25 years old, so I own the publishing rights on it again. I don't know if I will do more with it or not. It was on money saving tips. However, it is now so dated, that its a "whole new world" out there. For example, the internet, and online banking did not even exist when that book was written. I will have to get my old PC out though to do anything with it--it is saved on a floppy. So, I will have to save it from a floppy to a regular disk, then go to the other computer and resave it from a regular disc to a cd...I do still have copies of that- although they are water damaged. (Lesson learned, always keep things backed up or copied and in the bank box-you suffer the loss after a house fire for YEARS).

If it works, the picture I am trying to post is of our ice--the view from the bedroom porch.