So, it is minus 21 but feels ten degrees colder. I have been
out in colder weather, but it wasn’t what I would call a fun time. Doable, but
not fun.
I have no real reason that I need to venture forth in
unpleasant weather, but I will go for coffee, pick up the mail and every now
and then I need to buy food. Worse case scenario I am outside for maybe five or
ten minutes shovelling the snow. I do spend a lot of my day walking past
windows, watching the wind blow snow sideways and feeling sorry for the poor
sods that have to work outside on days like today. I was one of them for thirty
years. No longer!
I am older and feel the cold a little more than I used to. Oh,
I could still work outside and now and then I will test myself, but if I could
choose I would be walking past windows and watching the palm trees blowing in
the wind. Choices…
I can’t help but cast my mind back in time before central
heating and synthetic filled jackets. I don’t even want to think about using
outdoor facilities when it is below -30. I have had the pleasure when it was
just above freezing and it wasn’t something I would want to do for any length
of time. No reading on the can.
Can you imagine having to wake up to a home that was well
below freezing and having to start the fire to make something warm to get you
through the day of outdoor chores. Not my idea of how to live a life. I am
happy to have been born when and where I was.
We set our thermostat to 15° C at night to save on the fuel
bill while we are snuggled under several comforters. Right now it has dropped
to 19° C and I am feeling the chill. I could go and adjust the temperature a
few degrees while I finish the blog or I could end this now.
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