Cold morning

[pegkerr]

We need to get 3M plastic fitted to our windows. The house is very cold this morning, and the high is going to be about 0 degrees Fahrenheit. I'm back to work and the girls are back to school starting today, and we're not moving very fast. The temptation to lie huddled under blankets is very strong. Delia will be eating her breakfast sitting on the kitchen floor, huddled up to the heat register.

Hopefully, I won't have to remind them to wear hats and mittens today.

The ice is finally thick enough to cut on Lake Phalen. It was 12" last Friday, which was the minimum thickness they needed it to be to start harvesting (and the first day they started to harvest it), but today it is 20". I didn't go out to see cutting or construction because I had the girls all weekend, and I don't want to take them along. It would just be too cold for them. Must make arrangements to take a day off work.

Comments

[shellefly.livejournal.com]

Nice ice palace icon. :)

[oracne.livejournal.com]

WOW that's cold. To me, at least. I would be so bundled up, I would disappear into my wrappings, and if I fell down, I'd be unable to get up, like would happen to Charlie Brown on the ice.

[wilfulcait.livejournal.com]

The idea of putting plastic up inside the windows threw me all the way back to grad school, where I lived in a house so drafty (even WITH the plastic) that there was a constant low-grade breeze, and spent the winter studying with my feet inside the oven on top of the warm spot made by the pilot light. I feel like Scarlet O'Hara -- "I'll never be cold again!"

[lcohen]

i'm having an _american gods_ moment.

happy january!