Days 237 - 240

Snowing, blowing, freezing....

Here is the tree in front of our house. It is hard to tell how much snow is there. But believe me depending on where I walk, it can go over my knee in the drifts. But it does make it look so pretty outside.

Wow we are really not liking this. We have gotten a foot of snow, winds and blizzard conditions blowing that snow around and temperatures below 0. When you do not have a furnace in your house this is not something you want to feel. We are attempting to keep the corn burning stove going in the basement (to keep the pipes from freezing). But the problem is that it wants to keep it too warm. Now this sounds like a silly problem. But it is bad when it is 60 degrees in the part of the house that we aren't living in and colder in the parts that we are. Plus it goes through so much corn and pellets, we are watching our money burn.

Upstairs on second floor I am baking or attempting to use the oven as much as I can, just to get the heat that it produces. We have been closing off any part of the house that we arent' using, stuffing insulation everywhere we can. We have even considered all just sleeping on the floor in front of the fire and closing off the bedrooms. (I have been doing this with Jonathan's and mine during the day anyway. Just to save that heat.)

We are loving the layers, hats and gloves. :)