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To: Noumenon

I’m in my late sister’s enormous farmhouse. It can cost as much as 800.00/mo to heat this whole place so I just heat one large bedroom upstairs with a space heater and stay there.

The old family cat hates the chilly house and was scratching at my door so I just lately started letting her in to sleep.

She’s now a permanent fixture on my bed...lol

Somehow it is comforting to have her sleep on the bed though, I don’t mind it.


32 posted on 01/15/2022 10:03:22 PM PST by Bobalu (Lord, keep your arm around my shoulder and your hand over my mouth...)
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To: Bobalu

—”I’m in my late sister’s enormous farmhouse. It can cost as much as 800.00/mo to heat this whole place so I just heat one large bedroom upstairs with a space heater and stay there.”

We live in a hundred-year-old farmhouse, not that big and over the years add all new windows and LOTS of insulation plus an Ultra 95% efficient boiler... and my wife and personally installed miles of PEX tubing for heated floors.

But still, cool at night.

A friend knowing that I make felted wool quilts that look similar, sent me this link:
https://okanarts.com/blogs/blog/hot-water-bottle

I tried one, liked it so much I gave them out for Christmas!

Some were the Japanese ones as shown and some antique copper ones from ebay most of them for less than $25 delivered but need polishing. A grode one for $14 delivered!

Fill from a teapot or set directly on a gas burner, with LID OFF.

They stay HOT all night long, using a thermocouple and remote meter... Starting at 9PM @ 190 F. degrees @7AM 127 F.
The next morning!!!

And all of them were used the last couple of nights!!!


46 posted on 01/16/2022 8:46:15 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT ("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
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