I was going to whine about the bitter cold here in Wisconsin (no snow on the ground now; it all melted away last week), but I can see that you have much more on your plate. Was your granddaughter’s house under construction? How did the fire start? Thank God that the family is all right.
I did get out the long underwear today for the first time in 3 years, and I’m glad. When your morning news warns not to allow any skin to be exposed when going outdoors, you know that it’s going to be a cold one!
I just remembered that I should have put up Christmas decorations outdoors a couple of weeks ago when it was warmer. I forget about that every year. It looks like they’ll stay in the basement now until next year and everybody will think that an old scrooge and his wife live in this house. It is so cold (about 9) that you really cannot stand to be outdoors for even a minute to hang a garland. I do have a Thanksgiving/Christmas wreath on the door that I put up before a dinner party that I hosted November 16. It will just have to do for the season.
LOL! I understand the situation about the lights! This year I found a couple of $10.oo lights in the shape of an angel and a snowflake. I’m gonna hang those with my lighted Christmas wreath and call it good!
Yes, the electrician had just completed his work and gone home. Their was a battery power drill being recharged, and they think that the battery pack exploded or something.
Guess we’ll never know for sure what started it. The wind blew debri onto the trailer, and caught it on fire. Also burned some hay bales for the horses.
I have been hunting for long underwear in the catalogs and online. Haven’t had much luck finding that good ole thermal stuff that was really really warm. Stuff so far has been so thin it’s almost negligable in improving the situation.
We often put off our decorations too late it seems, since we don’t have kids that nag us into it the day after Thanksgiving any more. I keep a bunch of window cling decorations, so that I can put them on the windows, and lighted wreaths in the middle. At least we aren’t totally dark!LOL
It got down to +27 degrees here in Benderville and it set a record for that day. I saw a photo of snow on the beach near Lincoln City Ore.