lauramcewan:

Well, she's BREATHING, but there's no body heat!

Fortunately the really cold weather doesn't set in until Sunday, and the furnace guy will come out between 9 and 10am tomorrow morning. Whew.

We'll just have a wrapped-up-in-a-blanket adventure in front of the fireplace tonight after the craft event at school. :D

It's raining, cold rain. 45F outside and windy. Here comes the storm!

When I was a kid, we only heated the house with a wood stove. On super cold days, there would be a WIND from the north end of the house - we found out later during a remodel that there was a hole under the floor that had drawn the air in like that. So, on those cold days, my mom would hang a quilt at the hallway entrance to keep the wind from coming to us and the heat within the living room/kitchen/dining room space. They and my sister had heated water beds, but I don't like those and I had an electric mattress pad that I'd brave the hallway to turn on about a half hour before I'd go to bed. I still love doing that with my electric blanket - turn it on and then the bed is DELICIOUSLY warm when I come to it for sleep.

I don't mind cold weather if the sun is shining - in fact, that's the best, IMO. Clear and cold and sunny - sharp air and foggy breath. Today we've had both - a spot of sun bracketed by gray, gray rain and rising winds.

The kids just came to tell me about how high the winds are - leaves blowing sideways and the rain at a diagonal.

The fire is burning, they brought in more wood for me, and we have a school thing to go to later so we'll be warm there, too.

It's a rather good day.