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Baby, It’s COLD out there!

Snow dusted chair

We got a light snow last night…maybe 2 to 3 inches.  When I took Widgeon out last night at 9, it was almost like a frozen mist coming down it was so fine.

Here is what we saw on the upstairs weather station (yep, hubby is a gadget guy….) when we woke up today:

Upstairs temps

Yes…it was 3.6 degrees (F) outside… that is way below 0 (zero) Centigrade (32 F = 0 C) for those of you outside North America.  Inside, it was 56 (we keep the heat upstairs at 50 unless the boys are home during the day as on the weekends).  Downstairs, we have a fancier weather station (remember what I said about hubby):

downstairs weather station

As you can see, the timer-thermostat had kicked on the inside temp is up to 63, outside was rounded up to 4, but windchill is at ZERO.  BRRRRRR!  I’ll bet little Widgeon’s little parts nearly froze on morning walkies!

And the Lo temps for the night:

Lo temps

Yes, that is a wind chill of 7 below.  I am very grateful we live in a fairly new, TIGHT house that doesn’t leak cold like a seive.  I don’t know how folks in chinked log cabins survived the winters.  I expect the warmth from the  cows and horses helped…… Fortunately, we have a seriously less stinky alternative:  the wood stove.  As the former voluteer firefighter, Paul is in charge of buidling fires.  So first thing this morning he was chopping kindling on the back porch and getting the banked coals back to a warm toasty fire:

Paul chopping kindling

Believe it or not, I also quilt.  It seems like it has been FOREVER since I have had time to make art.  I am still working on the manuscript (and actually got excited yesterday… I appear to be making headway on the tedious “finishing up” stuff.   And, this past week, I had a PHENOMENAL opportunity:  Lisa Chipetine invited me to have Sandra Sider critique one of my quilts.  Never having heard or been in on such a thing, I was only a tad apprehensive.  I knew they would be kind, but I had NO idea how incredibly useful the process would be.  I promise a blogpost soon on that, plus an “after” shot when I get a couple of edits done.  For more info, go here:

http://www.threadplay.com/critiquing.htm

Anyway, that’s it for today…more soon!  And I promise, eventually I really will get back to art and quilting!

One Response to “Baby, It’s COLD out there!”

  1. joyce Says:

    We use Celsius up here in Canada too so I think USA may be the only place left that uses Fahrenheit. It always sounds colder in Celsius.