[Magdalen] how I hate this weather

[Scott Knitter]

Our apartment has a real fireplace fitted with real-looking ceramic "coals"
and "logs" but we've never felt OK about running it, both for the effect on
the gas bill and for any carbon monoxide or other gas mishaps that could
conceivably happen. We do have some lovely decorative candle holders
instead, to provide at least some of the glow of a fireplace. A modern
space heater fills in the gap for the coldest evenings and to satisfy our
"toasty cat," Hermes.

On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 8:05 AM Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
wrote:

> It is just around freezing here and the very fine snow is coating branches
> like icing sugar.  Very pretty, but it is evening all morning.
>
> My electric fire with visuals that is set in a console located under my
> living room window no longer works.  ☹  I now have a small heater sitting
> next to it.  It does its quiet work to take the chill off the basement-less
> floor, but it just isn’t the same as looking at a fire, real or not.
>
> This, too, shall pass.
>
> Marion, a pilgrim
>
>
> Sent from Mail for Windows 10
>
> From: ME Michaud
> Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2018 8:41 AM
> To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
> Subject: [Magdalen] how I hate this weather
>
> My least favorite time of the year.
> All my joints hurt.
> I wish I had a fireplace.
> -M
>
> ****************************
> It was evening all afternoon.
> It had snowed
> and it was going to snow.
> The blackbird sat
> in the cedar limbs.
> -Wallace Stevens
>
>

-- 
Scott R. Knitter
Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA