{"id":6061,"date":"2020-01-15T09:55:57","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T16:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/?p=6061"},"modified":"2020-04-07T08:14:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T15:14:00","slug":"jan-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/2020\/01\/15\/jan-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Jan 15 Cold Weather Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"

“I came from Canada, where it’s freezing cold for seven months out of the year.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rachelle Lefevre<\/strong><\/p>\n

I live in Canada, and we have eight months of winter here in Northern Alberta. Today I woke up to 10 degrees inside the house and -42c outside with windchill.<\/p>\n

I just went out to sweep the snow off the solar panels. Just wearing my snow boots sweatpants hoodie and a bathrobe. The sweat pants are 100 percent cotton. I love cotton but so do the moths that are in my house. I have a hole in the leg, about mid-thigh.<\/p>\n

This morning the cold hitting bare skin through the small hole,\u00a0 felt like a screwdriver rammed into my leg, I swept quickly and got back inside.<\/p>\n

Looking at the mountain of firewood already split from yesterday I may take a day off from wood duty.<\/p>\n

I think the driveway can wait too, Monday is the date they say it will warm up. The snow blowing can wait. Wood can wait a day but I will have to do that by tomorrow.<\/p>\n

The jays and chickadees couldn’t wait they needed seed so another trip outdoors was needed and again I moved quickly and efficiently, I put a yogurt tub full of seeds in the feeder I had made from an old Costco water bottle. They don’t mind how it looks, but are happy that is snow proof even in the worst of blizzards. I have to ration their food a little. It had to last until Monday.<\/p>\n

UPDATE: 9:30 p.m. -49c outside and dropping, the brass monkeys have lost theirs.<\/p>\n

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