I am going to whine a bit.

IT IS STINKING COLD

While we are not experiencing the -35 to -45 of the Western part of the country, we are -27 with the windchill and it is COLD.

I used the same amount of wood last night the full 48 hours before, and we were still very grateful for wool blankets.

This morning, the car wont start. Yaaaay. Unexpected day off for husband. Hopefully it will run tomorrow when it is a bit warmer and we don’t have a dead-dead battery situation.

Meanwhile, we are hunkered down with sweaters and blankets and hot tea.

The chickens’ water is frozen solid again, so it’s thawing on the stove.

The extra propane tank (which I hope we wont need) is frozen to the ground. We’ll work at freeing that tomorrow, once it warms up a bit.

This is the time of year I always end up asking myself why I live where the air hurts me, and not in South America somewhere where the sun is hot and the food is hotter.