Are You Ready?

[Judy Harder]

If any of you remember 1983, we had a lot of frigid temps in January and February. I remember well. We were moving into a new house (for us) and I had to spend a night in the house without heat and wore longjohns, sweats and coveralls to bed with a stocking cap and socks and had to get up to pee twice..............talk about miserable...........not sure of temps but comparable to this week.
I am waving a white flag

[srkruzich]

I'm wearing sweats and a zip up jacket sort of tonight when i go to bed, my poor electric blankee isn't going to handle the -7 tonight i am afraid.    woke up this morning to 8 degrees in my bedroom

[sixdogsmom]

Three dog night at my house, two under cover and one on top. Probably a tomcat beside my pillow, plenty to keep me warm with my fleece pj's. I do not set my furnace upstairs very high as it gets too warm for sleeping. I will set the downstairs one at 63 for the night. Steve, I would be sleeping in the room with the stove, even if I had to sleep on the floor. 

[Roma Jean Turner]

Don't forget to let your faucet's drip tonight so your pipes don't freeze.  I don't want a repeat performance of my last month's episode.

[Ms Bear]

It is not nearly as cold here as it is there but my feet are cold.  I did give in and let my grandson's dog in the house, hope he doesn't get on my bed during the night.  He is a big dog, very friendly and my grandson thinks I need him for protection.  When someone comes around he tries to get between my legs so I can protect him.  Probably weighs at least 60 lbs and could probably knock me over if he jumped on me.

Come on warm weather.

[greatguns]

David, you are a good man!  Make sure you aim good.   I turned my furnace off 'cause it was running almost full time.  The faucets are dripping and thewood stove will be crammed full when I head off to bed.

[sixdogsmom]

Sally, that ol' wood heat is pretty good stuff! I have seen the snow plow, ( Moline version), going past here several times this evening. Hopefully somebody will break the drifts in the alley behind the firebarn and then I can get out from the carport. It is 9 degrees right now, brrrrr------!!!

[Diane Amberg]

How is everybody doing? Phil did not see his shadow this morning. But truth be know he was seen sneaking out of town in his limo last Sunday. By now he's in Cancun under a palapa drinking something with a little umbrella in it.  Phil had hired a double for this morning. Hope you all did OK through the night. We got more ice than anything and it has suddenly melted. Can't complain.

[Roma Jean Turner]

Diane, I'm not suprised to hear that about Phil.  Sooner or later, all this attention was bound to go to his head.  I hope he chokes on a pineapple ring.  Ha, ha.  Okay I have been locked up in the house too long.

Anyway, for all of you freezing at night I will share one of my eccentricities with you.  A couple of years ago I bought my first sleeping bag, $10.00 one at WalMart and loved it.  It was like sleeping on silk sheets and so warm and cozy that I sleep in it all the time.  Zip it across the bottom and a few inches up the side and your feet have plenty of freedom to move and they stay warm.  I just put it between the top sheet and the bottom sheet with whatever covers I want on top.  But...you don't need a bunch of heavy covers with this setup.  I also bought a second one, which in this cold weather, I unzip and put over the top of the other covers.  I was just toasty last night.  The pets absolutely love them because they sink down into them and stay warm.  Easy to wash and dry.  Cheap and Easy....I love it.  The best $20.00 I ever spent.

[Wilma]

I thought Phil looked smaller than usual.  So that was a ringer?