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To: NorthstarMom

It sounds like you aren’t suited for the cold, just as a few people truly are not suited for the heat.

You should move, by the way I spent 15 years living in a shack on the beach in San Diego, that didn’t have heating or cooling, nor screens on the homemade shutter type windows, and the temperature ranged from the extremes of some nighttime 42 at night, to a high of 85 during the worst day.

The walls and ceiling were just 1” thick boards, with nothing else except 2” by 2” exposed studs every couple of feet, a single layer of wood for wall and ceiling, you could look through the cracks and it was very breezy, during storms it was difficult to find a place inside, where a candle wouldn’t blow out. My cat did love her heated bed.

Something I learned living there, Tomatoes are perennials and year round, and a vine that will grow, and grow, and grow, without winter.


48 posted on 01/02/2015 1:03:31 PM PST by ansel12 (They hate us, because they ain't us.)
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To: ansel12

I think my crazy college coach ruined me for winter (working out every day in the snow even with windchills of 60 below!)my toes hurt to the touch almost year round. I have to stay here as my husband is one of those few people not suited for heat! I just whine in the winter and dream of warmer climes ;-). Opposites attract, I guess. My dad has a car with remote start, heated seats and a heated steering wheel! Maybe by the time I’m his age a car with those features will be old enough that I can afford it.


56 posted on 01/02/2015 1:14:15 PM PST by NorthstarMom
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