Canadian Gardening: What's Happening in your neck of the woods? Friends..., 1 by fancyvan

fancyvan wrote:
Betty I didnt have to plug in my new Saturn for about the first 6 years. Then I started but only when it was below -10 . I dont have a garage. Also I had a new battery last year otherwise I dont think it would be starting - that was the original battery from 1999!

So last night after thoughts here I searched around the basement and found an old hooked rug that the cats peed on so dont use and an old wool blanket( must be 70-80 years old, my mother had it before me) that was on an old armchair in the basement with a liberal layer of cat hair as Jazz likes to lie there when he is upset and put them both on the hood of the car.

This morning officially it was -18 when I got up at 7 and my thermometor a bit warmer, now maybe -10 and the car started fine.

My friend went back to the fabric store on Sunday and got me 8 metres of polyfill ( half price) r and brought it over yesterday because it was filling the back seat of her car. I cut it to fit the beds I already had cut out and still did not have enough, Im making bigger beds this time so it does not go so far. Somebody is donating us some quilt batting so hope that is enough to finish this lot of beds. Probablyhave enought now to last the year - we only have 3-4 fundraisers.

Here's my Saturn with its hood blanket!

This message was edited Dec 8, 2009 10:33 AM