Posted on 01/25/2015 8:57:51 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine
My dearest wish is to one day have the pleasure of living in a small cabin in the frigid wilderness. There I will spend my nights covered in heavy wool blankets, eating smoked fish and dried fruit. Over time, my beard will grow to the point where I’ll be indistinguishable from a medium-sized woodland creature. The villagers I’ll come to know during my rare visits to town will call me “the wolfman,” not least because I will communicate solely by howling and scratching out messages with my clawlike fingernails. For now, I live in a big city, where such unconventional grooming habits are frowned upon, but I make a point of using very little heat.
I’ve suffered for living the no-heat lifestyle.
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Northern Exposure — great show. As the writer was describing his imaginary cabin-dwelling self, I was thinking of that reclusive chef character (whose name I can’t remember). He was abrasive and only came to town once or twice a year to pick up gourmet cooking supplies.
Aeons ago, I had to make that determination with little white laboratory mice. I don’t care to employ the methods I used back then on (him|her|it).
Just to be clear, that was not directed at you, Jack...
“I could never live an urban lifestyle after calling Eagle home, but with 2 woodstoves, my cabin hangs around 75 degrees; my old bones need the heat. NOthing better than drinking coffee sitting nx to my big cookstove, I have fight with the dogs for the best spots.”
Well you make this reluctant city-dweller jealous. Colo Springs is nice as cities go but it’s gotten too damn big. I liked it better in 1972. I watch shows like Alaska: The Last Frontier and Alaska Railroad to keep my dreams. Spent 2 weeks there in 1995, best trip and time of my whole life.
Ja, I know.
To hte self absorbed author:
Try building an Igloo in the wilds of Central Park, Ya Nutter!
The Urban Ferals will be your substitute Polar Bears - and they will be “Polar Bear Hunting” you.
Rhinovirus appreciates cold weather that prevents our antibodies from working in our sinuses. People get pneumonia easier in cold weather. In fact, people seem to be healthier in the summertime. Cold weather brings flu season....
I prefer to be comfortable in my old age. I had enough of the elements and extremes when I was younger. But everyone should have opportunities to experiment with nonsense.
Sarge the Horse comes to mind.
In one article about the terrorist shootings at Ft. Hood, wherein he states that he "knew sooner or later focus would be on Nidal Hassan's religion." He then stated that "religion had nothing to do with the killings!"
Of course, the fact that he's an "informal Muslim," has a great deal to do with his blind insistence that "religion had nothing to do with the killings."
Those articles plus this one that I read by this guy offer me proof positive that this guy is no conservative, unless JEB Bush and Mitt Romney are involved in naming him as one!
“National Review and Slate share executive editors and columnists?”
I don’t find that surprising these days. Reihan Salam is just the sort of imported oddball that has made NR worthless for years.
bttt
They seem to get pretty old down here in southern Florida.
As a child, we had a heater in the living room, but it got to the 40’s sometimes in the rest of the house. When we got ready for school, we would get in front of the heater to dress and put our clothes on the heater for 30 seconds or so before we put them on. We had no air conditioner till the 60’s, so we slept with the windows open and fans blowing. I was tougher then. I still sleep with the thermostat at 69 now. At 70-71 degrees, I kick the covers off and figure why spend the money for a couple of degrees. I would go to about 66, but my wife would get the rest of my money in the divorce.
Also sounds as crazy as Howard
I keep my thermostat at my place at 49 degrees. So far this winter it has never made it that low. 52 is the coldest so far. I live in north Florida.
I do it to save money on my electric bill. I do heat the computer room with a small plug in heater. I live by myself so I can get away with it. I have 3 indoor critters inherited from my late wife, two cats and a small dog who will sometimes sleep on top of my blankets in the bedroom on cold nights.
Temps in the 50s are not comfortable but this being Florida, they dont stay there very long.
he’s nuts. Pipes freeze so it means melting snow for water. And when it’s 40 below, you can develop frostbite in 10 minutes.
Frostbite falls without decent heat is only romantic if you are Bullwinkle moose.
I keep the thermostat down at at about 59. One reason is I’m a cheapskate against high electric bills and also too much heat dries the air and the sinuses which weaken the immune system to airborne winter illness. Otherwise the enviroment fully survives if we use heat or not——so poppycock on enviro ‘concerns’.
This 'author' needs an epic bitch slapping.
Hope you have some back up for heat.
I knew a family that brought a medium sized tent inside and rigged up ‘jar’ candles to stay warm when their power went out...remarkably it worked.
I think they used a short step stool with a metal tray underneath, to give it elevation...but not so high there was danger of fire.
Also read where a couple actually put a pup tent on their bed for sleeping at night!
I guess when it’s that cold you do the extreme to stay warm!
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