Tag: cold weather

OH Baby it’s cold INside

31 Comments

The temperature in the early AM has been in the low to mid 20s for a week and our furnace won’t light!  Thankfully, the repairman will arrive early tomorrow morning to fix it.

Can you believe that they just called and wanted us to wait until after Thanksgiving!!! 

Of course I said, “No way!”

Actually, I think we might have gotten it done the next day, but then they would have charged us for the service call AND the parts.  This way, because we are on a maintenance contract, I only have to pay for parts.   Yes, I am really that cheap frugal.

So how does a little dog stay warm when the house is 60 degrees inside?

oh-baby-its-cold-inside

He sleeps in his coat right in front of the radiant heater!

~*~

NOTEWORTHY:  The Mountain Farmlet is in Escrow and closes on the first of December.  It will be a melancholy event.  I will write more after the closing.

Save

Save

Injured, and trying to mend.

103 Comments

Wondering where I’ve been?

Well, I am out of commission.  Somehow I have (re)injured my knee and I can’t stand for very long to do much of anything (cooking/cleaning) because it swells up so bad inside that I can feel it out the back of my knee and up my thigh.  I also can’t sit for too long to rest it because then it freezes up and I am positively crippled upon standing again!

I am currently living on 100mg Celebrex and hobbling about on Bob’s walking stick.  The tree is still up, the chores are piling up, and I am fed up!   😦   I am calling the Dr as soon as I press the publish button.

On a humorous note:  We went to see the newest Peter Jackson Hobbit extravaganza and I was worried they wouldn’t let me in with my rather large walking stick.  Bob laughed and quipped:

They will just think you are in character.  What you need is a wizards cap and cape!

He was right, no one really noticed me and my “weapon”.  😉

On other topics, so far 2014 is coming in on frigid winds and ice-cold temperatures. It is 10:30 in the morning and our current temperature is 21 degrees.  Over the next few days we will continue to get below freezing temperatures and the temperatures will stay well below freezing even for the highs.

The worst of it will be Monday with a high of 20 degrees and a low of 5 deg, and Tuesday is not much better with 23 H and a 12 L.  You know this California expat is still not used to this kind of winter weather!

I have express ordered a heated water bowl for the Mountain Farmlet.  I would have just picked one up at the local pet store or the Co-op… but this is the Deep South and they don’t really stock them here.

How are you surviving the cold where you are?

Winter Weather: a swinging solstice

18 Comments

The last day of fall went out quickly, having been swept away by an eager winter storm.  Yes, Winter blew in early with four inches of rain, and by noon  she had begun a swift and frigid blowing.  She howled around the eaves, worked her way into the house through invisible cracks and then came in through the windowsill sounding for all the world like a flute!

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA

That will need fixing!

The lights began to flicker, and hearing all this horrible blowing pick up in speed, I decided to stop what I was doing and go have a look.  Opening the back door I felt Winter’s frigid breath blow right past me.   Too cold!

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA

Standing in the doorway with my sweater pulled tightly round my neck,  I listened as dry leaves hissed and tree branches rattled like dry bones.    Eerie, I thought, and shivering I closed the door tight.

~*~*~*~

This morning it is 32 degrees and while the wind isn’t quite as bad as yesterday it is unrelenting.  It is also making the air outside feel like it’s in the 20s!   Winter and I don’t get along.

The cold, the short and cloudy days all get to me.

~*~

Yes,  it is officially winter, but I have decided to greet it differently this year, to be more upbeat!  I think this might help.

~*~
Related articles