Oh, I Believe in Global Warming. No, Really.

Posted on Friday 12 January 2007 at 05:28

Dave woke me up this morning to inform me it was -39 Celsius. -40 and -40 are the same, Celsius or Fahrenheit. So, y'know.

So, I spent today working ahead on website upgrades. I have no pretty pictures of the sky to show you. I have no organic art. I have not planted a durn thing. This is January, where we get housebound and start to hate each other.

Blessings: We have a basement again, finally. That has been part of where I've been gone. We got the floor put in. We put in-floor heat in it. We are very, very happy to have it today. The floor down there and the floors above it are rather nice.

We have room down there to throw the kids when they get rowdy, and eventually - someday - there'll be a cold storage for the canning (with no in-floor heat, thanks to Dave's ingenuity), a couple of bedrooms, an actual laundry room, and a large utility room for freezers, storage, and all the stuff I don't want everywhere else in the house.

Yay, basement. Minus 40 isn't so bad this year.

Oh, it's good to have you back

Posted by jackiebridgen on Friday 12 January 2007 at 06:01 - Link

Cold what's that? We have a monsoon season. It's meant to be cold, but it's not, it's blowing a gale, and raining!
Your cellar sounds wonderful ..... pix? .......
OK I'm working on my newsletter, so waiting for A Message From our Manitoba Correspondent ....!!!!!
It really is great to have you back.
hugs
Jackie

OK, It's a basement

Posted by jackiebridgen on Saturday 13 January 2007 at 03:08 - Link

Not a cellar ROFLOL.
You know, if I didn't have enough to obsess over already, I could get really interested in vernacular architecture, it's something that always makes me go 'Oh, yeh!' Like why we build in brick, and you guys build in timber, or why and how you have basements, whereas we don't these days (why is that?) and why the rooms you get in a house have evolved differently in different countries ....
Anyway, I do have enough to obsess about, so apologies for calling your basement a cellar!