Baby It's Cold Outside
The temperature was 7 degrees when I got up this morning. (That's about -14 C to some of you).
I am happy to say that the new high efficiency furnace that I installed myself kept the house nice and warm despite the cat door in the basement that lets in cold air. (That cat door has to cost me a couple of hundred dollars a year in heating costs.)
During the day and early evening, we keep a fire going in the woodstove that warms the downstairs living areas. We are about halfway through the woodpile and I may need another cord before the weather warms up.
I am happy to say that the new high efficiency furnace that I installed myself kept the house nice and warm despite the cat door in the basement that lets in cold air. (That cat door has to cost me a couple of hundred dollars a year in heating costs.)
During the day and early evening, we keep a fire going in the woodstove that warms the downstairs living areas. We are about halfway through the woodpile and I may need another cord before the weather warms up.
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It's been a crazy winter here. By this time next week, we could reach our average seasonal snowfall total...and we still have to get through March, which is traditionally our snowiest month.
I knew it was cold two weeks ago when my cat, who normally curls up next to me at night, insisted on being under the covers!
I will not be moving to Florida, though. I like my weather. I am planning to buy a retirement home in Maine any year now. I had the chance to buy Longfellow's summer house in Maine, it even had a cottage where he wrote some of his stories and poems. It went cheap, but no quite in my budget. The sale price was about $200,000. Houses are cheap down east and the weather isn't much worse than down here in New York.
Once I get a house in Maine, I can start moving books and amplifiers north and in 5 or 10 years make the trek with a pack of cats and not come back. Snow and cold won't be that bad if I can stay home by the fire and work on a novel.
I plan to teach Stephen King to play my brand of poker once I get settled in house in his neck of the woods.
When you get a week of -25C -14C seems almost balmy :-)
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