Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2020 16:44:57 -0400
From: “N.A. Booko”
Subject: Not one more winter . .
Today to me is brutal. The cold biting and shriveling my face, back and arms. I can’t take it anymore. I can’t take another winter. People I know are probably tired of hearing me say it. They always want to know- “Well, where will you go?” The answer is nowhere. I am stuck for the duration- By duration, I meant I just can’t pull up stakes and leave for a warmer climate. There are no reasons I can’t do it, yet there are hundreds.
I’ll take a hot scorching 99 degree any day, compared to the cold ones. Today has been a total washout for me as far as working outside. last week I was outside working in a tee shirt. Today a tee shirt, a heavy cotton shirt, a knit long sleeve sweater, a padded vest, a fuzzy scarf and a warm long sleeve sweater. I looked like ‘The Rag Man Commeth”
And if i should see one of those things on television where the nuts go for a dip in January, I experience dreadful feelings of cold and freezing. I mean it really just about does me in.
My heating system is a duel type. Heat pump and propane. It is supposed to use the heat pump until temps fall to forty degrees and then the propane kicks in. A heat pump gives cold heat. Propane gives a much warmer heat. The past week, I have found the heat pump is just not doing it for me. Against my better judgement, i am using propane most of the time- but much more comfortable. I have tried to stick it out at 64 degrees inside, but gosh, at times that is just too cold.
Nope, I’m not spending another winter putting up with the cold . . . I mean it.
N.A.
N.A. Booko- Think what you like- I’m not spending another winter like this . .