HEAT-HEAT--Ugh!

[big brown horse]

i am putting the heated mattress warmer on the bed today. i guess i'll be able to find all the house cats for the rest of the winter! we leave it on for them and they are all there in little cat puddles....

LOL Just don't tell my cats about this heated mattress warmer contraption, or I won't hear the end of it!

Cats!!! Gotta love em! They sure get "nice" when cold weather rolls around, dont they?

 

[DrakeMaiden]

They do play nice this time of year. Funny how I suddenly have a new regular sleeping companion . . . same one that was nowhere to be found all summer.

 

[Ldychef2k]

We have mild winters, and since we are a reclaimed desert they are frequently dry. However, this week we got hit my a leftover tropical storm and in 24 hours we got three times the normal rainfall that we usually get in the entire month of October. Hoping my plants come back.

Yesterday as the storm passed over we had heavy, wet, warm air that is completely foreign to us. The humidity right now is 91% and it is 67 degrees at 845 AM. That is bizarre. Almost double our usual humidity. When the wet ground dries a bit, it will be better.

We WERE having some chilly nights, into the mid 40's, which is perfect. The leaves will stay green a bit longer now, but it will give my plants, which I planted far too late, a chance to grow.

 

[unclejoe]

I cleaned the chimney on Monday and built our first fire Tuesday night. We're looking at a cold rain for the next 3 days so it looks like we'll need to keep it going for awhile.

 

[user251]

isnt global warming just lovely, all the nice warm air, from the green house gasses coming out of the tail pipes of our mean nasty cars and jet engines of all the NUTS who are flying around the country telling us to stop driving so much and shoving this CRAP down our throat's. i say to them..... .

 

[BeccaOH]

We could see our first flakes of snow this weekend. I still have a couple rows of potatoes to dig, garlic to plant, a hoop house to tarp and bank with straw, etc. etc.

Tomorrow is my brother's wedding anniversary, and I do recall snow on that day. :/

 

[ohiofarmgirl]

i am putting the heated mattress warmer on the bed today. i guess i'll be able to find all the house cats for the rest of the winter! we leave it on for them and they are all there in little cat puddles....

LOL Just don't tell my cats about this heated mattress warmer contraption, or I won't hear the end of it!

Cats!!! Gotta love em! They sure get "nice" when cold weather rolls around, dont they?

yeah i know!! they were all in the bed with us last nite... we gave it up a long time ago and realized they only really love us b/c of body heat. why look here comes one of those little traitors right now coming in to sit in my warm lap. they arent foolin' me for a bit!!!

but i have to say the heated mattress thingy...wow a warm bed is the ticket!

 

[DrakeMaiden]

Yeah, my cats only do laps in the winter too. :/ But I guess it is better than the cat that sneaks up in your chair when you get up for just a minute. All our comfy chairs next to the woodstove are always taken by the cats. We have actually given up and just sit in the dinning table chairs. :/

 

[justusnak]

Ahhhh yes, the woodstove! Gotta love it! We have been burning ours now off and on for about a week. Cold rain...winds...Brrrr...I LOVE IT!! I know...crazy is as crazy does...but, I DO love the good dry heat from a woodstove. These old bones just sigh with relief...after haulin out a bucket of ashes, and hauling in 4 armloads of firewood. Time to get the spinning wheels down ladies...and set by the woodstoves...and spin, spin, spin!!

 

[Quail_Antwerp]

We've had the woodburner going all week. makes me mad because last winter we didn't have to light a fire until well into November.

makes me glad we stocked up on extra wood this year!

last week we were lighting a fire in the stove just in the early morning, just enough to take the chill off.

I'm not ready for winter. Nope not at all.