Frosted
At some point last week, the weather forecasters were claiming that our cold snap would moderate over the weekend. So--understandably--I did a double take when I saw the temperture after it got light this morning. A good day to stay inside, for sure.
Not that we were all afire today. It was a lazy day at our house. A neighbor had come over a couple days ago with a cold and now both Denny and I are having sinus troubles. When the air is as cold as it is now, it doesn't hold much moisture, so we woke up with sinus headaches. I got up long enough to set up the vaporizers this morning upstairs, then crawled back into bed for a few hours. Sometimes that's the best sleep of all.
During the cold months, we keep a heated water dish outside. For the creatures living outside, water is often harder to find in the winter than food, so we try to provide. The water stays warm enough to form feathers of ice around the rim.
In this cruel cold, I am happy every night to hold Bart or Twitch or Mimi and hope they have forgotten cold nights and winter days they spent outside before they came to live with us.
Not that we were all afire today. It was a lazy day at our house. A neighbor had come over a couple days ago with a cold and now both Denny and I are having sinus troubles. When the air is as cold as it is now, it doesn't hold much moisture, so we woke up with sinus headaches. I got up long enough to set up the vaporizers this morning upstairs, then crawled back into bed for a few hours. Sometimes that's the best sleep of all.
During the cold months, we keep a heated water dish outside. For the creatures living outside, water is often harder to find in the winter than food, so we try to provide. The water stays warm enough to form feathers of ice around the rim.
In this cruel cold, I am happy every night to hold Bart or Twitch or Mimi and hope they have forgotten cold nights and winter days they spent outside before they came to live with us.
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