December 14, 2008
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What day is this?
Oh … yeah, there it is, down there in the corner of the screen. The fourteenth… there was something I wanted to do today. It’ll come to me, maybe, later.
I have been up for about four hours and am not awake yet. It must be the old fibro-fog. At the moment, I don’t recall whether there is anything I can do about that or not.
At least the weather has warmed up some, up to minus 9.8 degrees F, last time I looked, up from about twenty below earlier this morning. Doug kept the fire going hot until about 4 AM, then went to sleep, on the couch by the stove because his room is too cold for comfort. The discomfort of a short couch versus the discomfort of a cold futon on the floor… some days he chooses one, some days the other.
I could tell he had the fire hot because I could hear the water boiling in the three pots on top of the wood stove that serve as our substitute for a water heater. The water had come off the boil by the time I got up and put more cold wood on the fire, and I haven’t gotten it that hot again yet today.
At least all we have to contend with is cold, and we are used to that. Much of the Lower 48 is really hurting from storms and the aftermath of storms. If that includes you, you might not even be able to power up your computer today. I’m lucky.
I got a reminder this morning of one of my previous discoveries about perception of cold versus warmth: how to feel warm when the house is cold. I rolled out of bed around six AM, pulled on boots and hat, grabbed the warm seat from its place behind the woodstove in one hand, picked the flashlight from its place by the door with the other, and bolted for the outhouse. When I got back, it was miraculously warm in here.
I will be back later with more holiday blogging. I was just kidding about not remembering what I had planned for today. There is brainfog, indeed, and I really can’t recall whether I have any handy tricks for dispersing it or must just wait it out, but I do know what I want to do today. Seeya later.
Comments (6)
O man do I hate the outhouse in the winter! Oy,my sister had one and the younger boys spritzed when they peed,I hated sitting on that frozen pee-pee.
I keep thinking it is Saturday for some reason.
Going back to work has me all screwed up !
{{HUGS}}
~P~
We had about 6 inches of snow today and other then blowing snow because of the wind not too bad…about 20 miles south of us they had rain no snow…we got a little rain but not enough to be an issue…I would much rather have the snow…dealing with ice sucks
Happy Holidays to you all…amazing people are you!
@TakeMeUnder_4 - Wouldn’t your non-comment have been more properly a reply to my comment, as this is, instead of being appended to an entry you apparently didn’t read and certainly were not commenting on?
now that is cold at your house. Makes me realize how lucky I am with 64.1 degrees in North Central Texas.