Baby, It's COLD Outside

[elianahsharon]

Remember when I told you it was so hot here that I saw the devil riding his quad out of the city limits?  

No?

I don't remember either and waking up to a temperature of -3F with a wind chill in the negative teens didn't make me remember any better.  I am sure, though, that when the temps skyrocket this summer to 97F and change with a heat index of 110F, I'll be saying pretty much the same thing.

In the meantime, I moved the puppies upstairs last night.  I live in a 100 year old house that is heated with a boiler.  And while water heat is the Cadillac of all heating methods, when it gets THIS cold...face reality, our upstairs turns into the Bahamas just so we can keep the downstairs in the Ontario range.  

I actually took my penguin thermometer that Evan made for me and clocked it.  It was 7 degrees outside and the upstairs was a full 12 degrees warmer than the downstairs.  When we got up this morning, I had left the thermostat (which is downstairs in the dining room) at 65 (and yes campers, that's a full FIVE degrees hotter than usual) and we had broken out in a sweat upstairs.  I hurried down and turned on the space heater in the living room and cranked the heat - I bet by now the boys have stripped to their skivvies up there.

Anyway, school was delayed and then cancelled.  Pops called doing his "There's no school today!" dance which was followed closely by the Boy doing HIS "No Hebrew school today!" dance when the governing school district for THAT closed at 9:00.

I feel REALLY badly that J-town didn't close their schools.  That's our home district and they don't have full bussing...the high school students have NO bussing.  Well, at least they delayed 2 hours so they'll be able to see the little buggers frozen to the sidewalks by daylight I suppose.   I have to say, when at least half your district walks it's a bit irresponsible NOT to cancel when it's below zero.

In the meantime, I am getting ready to enjoy some Celestial Seasonings "Sugar Cookie" herb tea.  skyforestrecommended it...and boy, is it good.  I ordered two boxes online and snagged two boxes of decaf vanilla maple to go with it, and while expensive when it all came down to it what with shipping and handling....come on, cut me a break!  I have to have SOME joy in my sitting-here-freezing-my-cunyuns-off life don't I?

Comments

[elizabethann40.livejournal.com]

It would be bad to tell you that we're going to be 75 degrees today, I guess.

Stay warm...

[70stang.livejournal.com]

Oy, I hate it when it gets too cold! Makes me want to move down south for some of that warmer (albeit rainy) air.
=:8

[windsornot.livejournal.com]

It was that bad for us today too. I was surprised they didn't cancel schools either, as nobody should be out in this cold of weather, but hey, what are you going to do. I felt so bad for my boy when we were standing on the bus stop. We went out at the usual time, and we were all waiting, and poor little thing started crying and telling me, "Mommy, it's too cold! It's too cold! Where's the buhuhuhuhsss?!?!?!?(that's bawling with the "bus" part)". I felt so bad. As it was, the wind was blowing northwards, and I was blocking him from the wind as best as I could with my big butt, and he was still crying. Yeah, that bad.

[skyforest.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you like the Sugar Cookie. I wentback to the store I found it at, last week. They still had a display rack of it on sale, tucked back in a corner, so I scored 4 boxes.