[Magdalen] weather/temps...

[Marion Thompson]

Musings:  The ice on my bird bath today means that the particular 
outside wall socket powering the bbheater has tripped again. Boring.  I 
need to run a long line across the garden to the lean-to; I think I had 
to do this last year.
Need to lift the cascade pump out of the water and replace the 
burned-out aerator pump at Lower Lake Marion.  The previous one ran for 
several years, non-stop, summer and winter.
Mercifully I got the sermon written last night.  Hurrah!  Lots of things 
to get done today and tomorrow, especially fill the basement with wood 
so that it has a chance to warm up and lose some dampness before I run 
out of  the drier better wood I brought in in September.  Never ends.
Except for some warmth in the bathroom, I am doing my best to avoid all 
electric heat until it becomes unbearable in the newer part of the 
house, where I spend all my time, i/e. frozen fingers and icy feet, 
usually around 60C.  I have got to get my equal billing down from the 
nosebleed height racked up last winter.

'Hiver!  Vous n'etes qu'un vilain!'

Marion, a pilgrim
On 11/14/2014 12:12 PM, Lynn Ronkainen wrote:
> I'm not sure it froze last night, I forgot to check the birdbath for 
> ice, my default alert!  Anyway, all my annuals were sheeted... it will 
> probably warm again and they may live for a few more months. We went 
> for 12 years straight here w/out a hard freeze... until 2009 when it  
> happened in early October, which was very unusual and included snow 
> flurries!... some annuals were many feet off the ground, most died in 
> the freeze but the hardier ones came back, having had such a long time 
> to build a root system, and without as much protracted cold here in 
> the winter, the ground, deep down, is warm enough to keep the roots 
> alive.
>
> It's a bit chilly inside though as I'm being very conservative about 
> energy savings... With our famous unregulated energy here in the big 
> TX, we have what seems like zillions of companies competing for our 
> business, but they all have loopholes and one has to enter into 1 or 2 
> year contracts to hold prices per KWH from month to month.  I just 
> changed again this month, having had a month-to-month for the last 8 
> months which about killed me during our very hot summer.  Winter is 
> usually the time to save on heating here based on my 27 year tenure in 
> Houston, but the last 5 years have had enough very cold stretches that 
> usage for heat has increased dramatically.  Previously the whole 
> winter could go by with no use of the heat, and probable use of AC 
> some of the time. That weather-phase seems to have passed : (  I will 
> wait with bated breath for my first bill with the new contract....
>
> Lynn
>
> website: www.ichthysdesigns.com
>
> When I stand before God at the end of my life I would hope that I have 
> not a single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything You 
> gave me." attributed to Erma Bombeck
>
> Thomas Merton writes, "People may spend their whole lives climbing the 
> ladder of success only to find, once they reach the top, that the 
> ladder is leaning against the wrong wall."
>
> "What you seek is seeking you." - Rumi
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Susan Hagen" <susanvhagen at gmail.com>
> Sent: Friday, November 14, 2014 10:54 AM
> To: "magdalen" <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
> Subject: Re: [Magdalen] weather/temps...
>
>> We had freezing rain last night and a tiny snow flurry this morning.
>> All the annuals are dead.  I'm busy mulching.
>>
>> Susan
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 10:52 PM, Lynn Ronkainen 
>> <ichthys89 at comcast.net> wrote:
>>> headed down past 30 tonight here in Houston.... for November THAT'S 
>>> COLD!!
>>>
>>> I spend the better part of an hour covering bedding plants (because 
>>> this
>>> won't last and they will, if covered) and hauling in some of my
>>> summer-grown-huge tropicals - schefflera and an 8' tall cut leaf
>>> philodendron in a pot (which I cut into pieces to root).
>>>
>>> Furnace on and it's set at 62.... yep, it is cold.
>>>
>>> Lynn
>>>
>>> website: www.ichthysdesigns.com
>>>
>>> When I stand before God at the end of my life I would hope that I 
>>> have not a
>>> single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything You gave 
>>> me."
>>> attributed to Erma Bombeck
>>>
>>> Thomas Merton writes, "People may spend their whole lives climbing the
>>> ladder of success only to find, once they reach the top, that the 
>>> ladder is
>>> leaning against the wrong wall."
>>>
>>> "What you seek is seeking you." - Rumi
>>
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Before enlightenment pay bills, do laundry.  After enlightenment pay
>> bills, do laundry. 
>
>