I grew up in northern Indiana so we always had lots of snows, blizzards, and very cold winters there. Same with northern Illinois where Larry and I lived during my working years at the phone co. I had to drive through blizzards to get to work back then. I was a telephone operator back then-when we were really needed, so had to come to work no matter what. I usually would sleep over on the couches in the lounge area and work lots of overtime.
My old senior bones are Not handling this bitter cold snap this time around. Supposed to end on Wednesday.
This lake house is soooo cold. I have the heat set to 72 F otherwise the bill would be too expensive. I don't remember being this cold all the time. I don't like wearing shoes in the house, I wear old socks or wool socks instead-so that's an issue I could fix I suppose.
Sorry about complaining. So glad Larry talked me out of wanting to retire to the western mountains. I wouldn't have liked the long super cold winters there for sure. My author friend lives at the base of mountains in Montana-where it is minus 35 and lower during the winters-ugh. With lots of snow. So I need to stop complaining as I look towards the warm up mid week.
The first year we bought the lake house Larry had insulation blown into the attic. There is no insulation at all under the floors that are exposed to the basement. Temps at minus 4 F are really cold, and with a non working woodstove-the previous owners had a major chimney fire-I am just bumbed about being cold for the last several days.
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