Noticing When Its Cold

I get that every winter. Not so bad this year because I've been making and using goat's milk soap. And I made some awesome hand cream with beeswax and sweet almond oil - great stuff!

Here's a tip - Super Glue! Put it over the split and it gives it a chance to heal, and it hurts a lot less too. Doesn't sting at all when you put it on.

Everything takes longer - putting on layers to go out, having to take gloves off to fumble with things, then put them on again. Dumping frozen buckets, thawing rabbit water bottles . . .

I do love looking up at the stars on a cold winter night, and listening to the silence.

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at 10f i can keep the house warm say 70 all day easily with just the wood stove at 0 i can keep 67 at 20 below 0 i have to keep a fire going all day and fed regular to keep 64

at 0 f i need to open the pantry door a few times a day to keep it from freezing things on the low shelves but it doubles as a walkin cooler

the colder it is the closer to the back door the dog goes and is back in you could tell the daily temp by how far the dogs crap is from the back stepps

you know your cold when you think 30 is warm and 20 is quite comfortable

not hard to explain at all , just visit the north for a while everone has that here , learn to wear gloves regular , even wile doing the dishes , and when you just can't take it i make a thing from bees wax and venison tallow to make it better.

ESPECIALLY while doing the dishes!

And, if you want to look particularly fetching, slather your hands and feet with Vaseline and don old cotton gloves and socks at bedtime. That will really promote the healing of your chapping and splitting skin.

Sadly, there's no one besides the dog to care about my bedtime attire, and she, bless her heart, doesn't complain

Paul Harvey used to hawk a soap called Nutrigina (SP?). It's supposed to be good for chapped hands. Norwegian fishermen use it.

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I went to the barn to let the dogs out and I swore I heard cicadas or crickets singing. It was the power lines.

Git ya some of this.

http://www.bagbalm.com/

That's what I've been using. A little goes a long ways and it works well.

.....Alan.

Cold just means I feel more alive. The heat and humidty kills me.

Canned soft drinks split open on the back porch.

Seems like there are more house fires and less thiefs?

LOL, I was going to say it ain't cold til your boogers freeze.

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It is reeaaaallllyyy hard to get out of a nice, warm bed in the morning when you can see your breath in your bedroom, and you know it will take a couple of minutes to get the woodstove crankin hot.

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I notice that my kitchen floor needs sweeping. The broom is still in the car from the last snow storm.

I love to bake and cook crock pot dishes like stews and soups when it's cold. I also notice how GREAT hot chocolate tastes on a cold day!

Usually our flock of buzzards are basking in the sun with their wings out to absorb more heat on their black wings. This cold mornign they are in the sun with wings folded- lose more heat with wings open today

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