How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

 

20 below outside. Plus 2 inside. I had to do the terrible thing and light the fire. The boy cats have been pissing on the stove pipe since last winter. It’s not a happy event. Lots of dense acrid smoke.

Why not just open the windows? It’s -20 outside.

Usually I would be doing this in September but climate change led to a record breaking warm October.

I am sure we will pay for that later.