[Magdalen] Brrrrr...

[Ann Markle]

Brrr, Chad.  Our furnace is running and running, but the thermostat (in the
back part of the apartment, where it's warmer) says 64 degrees.  I'm about
to go upstairs for the small portable heater, just to use while I'm sitting
here at my desk.  Sun still shining, now 7.3 degrees (feels like minus 3,
it says).  I finished shoveling the drive, came inside, and my clothes were
soaked with sweat, hair wet, etc.  Toes and fingertips a little bit cold,
but ski gloves also wet inside.  I worked hard!  Got it fully shoveled to
the sides on each side, but couldn't get down to the pavement except in one
spot that I kept chipping away at the edges on.  My car is parked at the
curb (got to go out tonight), and I may go out one more time, in an hour or
so, just to see if I can reach any more pavement.  I figure the more dark
pavement I can expose, the faster it all will melt in the sunshine.
Snowbanks must be near 6 feet high on each side of drive and sidewalk now.
Snow nearly melted off my car in the sunshine; I'm worried about our
upstairs front porch, which has about 3 feet of snow on it - can't even get
the door open to get out there, and too tired to shovel it, even if I
could.  Maybe that will be tomorrow's project.

Ann

The Rev. Ann Markle
Buffalo, NY
ann.markle at aya.yale.edu
blog:  www.onewildandpreciouslife.typepad.com

On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 11:33 AM, Charles Wohlers <
charles.wohlers at verizon.net> wrote:

> The temperature here, at 11AM is -2. That's the recorded state high so far
> today, BTW. The airport in Montpelier (up on a hill, so gets lots of wind)
> recorded a wind chill early the AM of -40. Our low here last night was a
> balmy -12.
>
> Meanwhile, I did get someone to go take care of my furnace in Mass. Took
> him 30 minutes to shovel a path to the house (he wasn't happy about that,
> needless to say). However, the boiler was easily refilled and the furnace
> was working again. However - the freeze alarm kept calling us all night,
> meaning the temperature never got above 45 in the house. Called the
> neighbor with a key just a little while ago, who went over and reported
> that the heat was on and the thermostat said 37 - so apparently with the
> extreme cold and wind the furnace is having a hard time getting the house
> warmer. So all is (at least somewhat) well and I don't have to rush down
> there. Really looking forward to shoveling the driveway when I get down
> there - its condition is much like Ann's. Just call me a happy homeowner.
>  :-(
>
> Meanwhile, got out my snowshoes, so that once I get down to Mass. I can go
> out back and tack scions from the apple trees for grafting next month
> (makes new little trees). And this AM I heard the chickadees making their
> early spring dee-dee call. Spring will come!!!!!
>
> Chad Wohlers
> Woodbury, VT USA
> chadwohl at satucket.com
>
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Ann Markle
> Sent: Monday, February 16, 2015 10:50 AM
> To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
> Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Brrrrr...
>
> Our temperature in Buffalo at 10:45 am is -3.1 F (but who's counting the
> .1?), with a wind chill of -17 F (yep, that's MINUS 17).  I was out
> shoveling earlier in my many layers and down coat, and was fine, but my
> face got a little cold (had a scarf pulled up high, but not over my nose
> and mouth, as that fogs up my glasses).  My fingers, even in ski gloves,
> got painfully cold, so I came in to warm up.  I shoveled out a good bit of
> the lower driveway (this is not a long driveway, mind you), and scattered
> ice-melter stuff on it.  It was previously shoveled, but not down to the
> pavement, and so narrow that I can barely get in and out of my car when
> it's in the drive.  The snow is piled up as high as my head (I'm 5'1") on
> either side, so it's a feat to lift it up high enough to throw it on top.
> It's too cold for the melter-stuff to work (or so says the radio), but the
> sun is shining, so I'm hoping that will help melt about 2 inches of
> remaining "stuff" (snow and ice), so I can then clear that away, back up my
> car, and get to work on the upper driveway.  The other night my 2 neighbors
> pushed my car in as far as it would go, and Cheryl still had to park her
> little Fiat partway across the sidewalk.
>
> Ann
>
> The Rev. Ann Markle
> Buffalo, NY
> ann.markle at aya.yale.edu
> blog:  www.onewildandpreciouslife.typepad.com
>
> On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 10:31 AM, Eleanor Braun <eleanor.braun at gmail.com>
>
> wrote:
>
>  So Marion you sent all of Canada's cold air to New England????  We have
>> about a -20F wind chill right now.
>>
>>
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>