How cold is it?
Our plumber, who we had to call in again because, while we had heat, it was very anemic, was afraid that our pipes had frozen somewhere. Eeek! But, no–whew!–it was the pump on the heating system. Still quite pricy, but a hella lot less pricy than the alternative. The plumber reported that they had been working endless days thawing out people’s heating systems because it’s been so cold, for so long, that normally well-insulated systems have given up the ghost.
The water in the chicken coop was frozen yesterday night.
Our kitchen door is freezing shut; we have to aim a heater at the door for a few minutes to loosen things up to the point where a few good whacks against the wood will jar things loose.
All our windows have chunks of ice at the bottom. (We are trying to find a dehumidifier, but every store is sold out, hah!)
The poor dawg is having serious problems when he goes outside to do his thang. It’s funny, but sad, to watch him try to poop while holding first one paw, then the next, up in the air. By the time he’s done and we’re at the bottom of the stairs to go back to the kitchen (having thumped the ice free to open the door to let him out to…), he’s a miserable puppy limping along. Time to go buy doggie boots and hope like hell he’ll wear them.
We’re in the fifth day of the cold snap; it’s been below zero here in Suburban Alaska all five of those days, while Big City still reached above zero on the first day. The cold weather is forecast to continue until Friday, with “highs” of 5 below zero.
Suburban Alaska has postponed its Alaska Statehood Celebration, which was scheduled for today. The commentary on the story was full of Rough Tough Alaskans sneering at the weeny wusses who “can’t handle a little cold!” OmegaMom raises her hand: that’s me!
Right now, it’s 26 below zero here. It was 30 below zero in the middle of the night.
The end result is that my brain is frozen. I have ideas for posts floating around in my head, but nothing coalesces. Bear with me: the brain will defrost sometime soon.
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