Greys & Things

It’s cold this morning.  I’m not freaking out as much as the news people are.  They like to hype up everything.  It is 0 degrees without the windchill.  I’m not sure what the windchill is.  Schools are closed here.  I don’t remember having school closed due to cold weather when I was a child.

We have propane heat, but we try to heat our house with our fireplace.  Our fireplace is much like a wood stove.  It has glass doors and a blower.  You can adjust how fast the wood burns.  We really like it, but it’s a lot of work.  Cutting wood, stacking wood, cleaning the glass doors and emptying ashes can be a pain.  It’s a challenge on a day like this to warm the house.  I figure I will be lucky if I can get the living room and kitchen to 72.  I’m thinking that I may be able to get it to 70.  Today will be tough.

Yesterday, I impressed my husband because when he arrived home from work the temperature in the house was 77.  He said that I must have worked really hard to get it that warm.  I told him that I was surprised to find a good fire still going when I returned from town.  I had slowed down the burning in hopes that I would at least have some hot ashes to work with to restart to the fire, but I actually still had a nice fire going.  I kept it going the rest of the day because I knew the temperatures were dropping quickly and our goal is to mainly heat with wood.  I was successful yesterday.  I suspect today will be a different story.

Stay warm everyone!