Found a way to stay comfy in this chilly weather!

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I doubt they even sell them, but even if they did, for my size 16 feet, I would have to buy a larger microwave! :ROFLMAO:
I have a friend who wears size 15. He has a hard time finding shoes in his size in Montreal, never mind shoes he likes in his size. He always checks out shoe stores when he travels to other cities. When he travelled to Winnipeg, Manitoba, he walked into the first men's shoe store that he came across. He asked if they carried size 15 shoes. The salesman replied, "It's a shoe store." Apparently, there are a lot of tall men in Winnipeg. Size 15 shoes are just a normal size. Yes, my friend bought himself a couple of pairs of shoes while he was in Winnipeg. While Winnipeg is known for tall men, Montreal (actually, most of Quebec) is known for short men.
 
It’s freeeeezng here right now.

I wear long underwear on top and bottom, sweatshirts and a down vest.

I keep the house at 62 during the day and 55 at night. It’s a big uninsulated house and heating oil is pricy.

My wife bought me an awesome heated down vest last year which is a game changer.
 
I keep the house at 62 during the day and 55 at night.
When I had a programable thermostat I did sort of the same but several settings.
62 from 10:30pm to 6 am (fro sleeping),
68 from 6am to 7:30 (getting up and dressed),
64 from 7:30am to 8pm (school, work, or if I was home cleaning, shopping, or busy),
72 (or even 74 if it was really cold outside) just from 8pm to 10:30pm (watching TV :))
big drop again back to 62.
 
For our area, it's been really cold for about 3 weeks now. When I say cold, I mean below-freezing-at-night kind of cold. We have one more week to go.

When the temp drops below freezing, I have to go out and disconnect the hose from the spigot, so the water drops back down below the freeze line. Then I have to reconnect it again in the morning. Every day for the last 3 weeks. It's getting old. This morning was worse. The water in the hose going under my trailer was frozen and that didn't thaw until 11:30. So now I have 5 gallons of water sitting on my fridge.

I also have two space heaters on and they're not keeping this space warm at all anymore. This trailer is like living in a cardboard box. If I put on any more space heaters, the fuses blow. So about 8, I'm going to go over to the table and work on the dollhouse in front of the big heater and turn this other one under my desk off. Then I'll turn on the heater in the bedroom and start warming that up. I very seldom have heat on at night but I will this week!

So now I've got two pairs of socks on, two pairs of pants, and if you all will excuse me, I'm going to go put on a second sweatshirt.
 
<< Hugs >> rodent. Would send some dragonettes to keep you warm but they're a little careless with their flames. Don't want to scorch (or worse) your trailer.

Hey! maybe I should send you some. You're good at training, no? Think you can discipline a few dragonettes? Train them to follow directions a bit?
 
RR, I lived in a log cabin for a few years. This was in Quebec, about a hundred miles north of Montreal. Winters were really cold there and we heated with a wood stove made out of a 55 gallon drum. We had one space heater, which we had under our platform bed. We only turned that on for an hour or two before bedtime. I recommend wearing a hat and scarf.
 
It's really cold out and we are facing a day without heat when the new gas line is installed. I have everything but the carbon felt to make these. Maybe I will make two to set in our fireplace on the day of the gas line installation. Use some mylar reflectors to direct the heat more into the room. I could stabilize the lamps with a flower pot filled with dirt, which I already have. Keep an empty can nearby to use as a snuffer.

Kittens would be kept at bay by the fireplace screen. Hmmm. I don't think they would take long to make.
 
LOL Any more socks and my feet would be too big to walk. Anyway, I have one of the space heaters under my desk and when it gets really cold, I put my feet on it. You should see my slippers. They're disintegrating.

Here's a pic I took of my yard tonight. Once the sun goes down, that temp really starts to drop. You can still see some of the sun on the tops of the pines in the back. That's not snow back there, that's frost taking over. Pretty, isn't it?


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Sorry rr, yeah, think one pair of socks is enough, LOL. But here's a thought, put an extra blanket UNDER you as well.

Nice picture! Love it! Wee tad jealous here. 80 yr old bones and all.
 
I sleep on a sheet in just a T-shirt and well, you know, other clothes. But no socks or anything on my legs. I have 4 blankets I put on me right now and I end up toasty warm. I still have two other blankets, a sleeping bag, and a wool serape I can spread across my bed if I was really cold or didn't have the heater on. And of course, the cat cuddles against me.

I could just spring for a nice comforter, but with multiple blankets, I can adjust to the temps as I need to. I never put blankets away because it can be nice and warm in April and colder than a...cold in July at night. Sometimes it can be both in the same night.

Now my weather page says it's still 37° outside, but I went out anyway and turned the water off and it was a lot colder than that! I will say, this makes our well water icy cold, so that it almost burns your mouth, but it sure is delicious.

LMAO I went to the store today and had to wait till 2pm for the sun to come around and melt all the frost off my car. The road into town follows an inlet of the ocean (Norwegians would call it a fjord) and I swear, as I drove in, I saw patches of ice on top of the water.
 

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