I hear it is set to be mighty damned cold starting this weekend, and into next week over much of the United States. Of course, I live in Idaho, so I am safe from the worst of it, which is shocking! Last year at this time I could have scrapped the ice off the glass inside my house, but not this year. This winter is quite a bit warmer, so far. But the arctic blast that will cause the entire state of Michigan to close their schools nest week will miss us completely! We might get a little brush with a satellite cell, so I should go check the woodpile, not that I can afford to top it up in the next few days!
It has been warmer in our house this year! I am not sure why, apart from the fire in the fireplace. That would seem an obvious answer, were it not for the fact the fireplace is pretty inefficient, and really only heats two rooms up, and since the thermostat is in one of those rooms, it actually fools it into thinking the house is warmer than it is, and causes the rest of the house to be colder. So I am not sure the fireplace is a positive contribution in its current configuration!
What does seem to be a help here is the mice! There have been so many mice crawling into our traps that I have begun to think the walls are lined with so many of them that they are providing insulation and keeping the house warm.
Okay, the thought of that many mice is pretty disgusting!
In other news, I did go to Lowe’s today to pick up an internet order that my wife made early this morning of Christmas sale items. When I got there, I was told to wait a bit while they located it. After about fifteen minutes, they concluded that the order was not picked, and I was asked to wait while they did. I wish I was joking when I tell you that this part of the process took about an hour and a half, and was followed by another half an hour of returning items from the internet order that were no longer in stock because they were on sale and were grubbed up by eager sale shoppers in the store. After returning those items, we added one more of something, and then had to return ALL of it in order to ring it all up again and apply a 10% discount that I was promised after I had been there an hour because after all, I ad waited so patiently, and for so long. If you lost track of the math, that was two hours and fifteen minutes in the store to pick up an order that should have been ready for me to just pick up and leave with.
Maybe secretly, the people at Lowe’s control our winter weather, and they are going to wait, then hit us with it.
Kelsey J Bacon