I find politics irresistible.  Clearly.  I can’t imagine how many of my regular readers (all 6 of you) suffer when you see that the blog topic is ‘politics’.  Like the last entry regarding the Greens.  Sorry.  I’ll try to resist but, as you know, resistance is futile.  A man’s gotta rant!

Fourth day of cold.  Everything frozen.  Couple of valves ‘popped’ so that when the water does run, it will all run away.  Oh joy!  My ’emergency pump’ for when it is frozen also froze.  So, we have had to siphon a few liters from the tank every day with a suck-hose and make do with that.  But, you know what?  It’s not so bad.  A bit of an inconvenience but that is all.  Well, that was all until it got really cold.

Sally took some of our bottles and cans in from the food shed.  It was 27 degrees F in there so it was a good move.  Everything is fine.  But the batteries are taking it hard.  We get those puppies up pretty good and, by the time the night is through, they are down, down, down.  NOT dead – just down.  But down a LOT.

Sal went to yoga today anyway.  This little piggy stayed home.  So did all the other little Q-hut piggies.  We don’t work when it is cold.  ‘Course, we didn’t work when it was hot, either.  Or raining.  Plus we only work Wednesdays no matter what.  Ya know, we are really great workers when you come to think about it.  We are almost done, it is looking great and we never do anything!  It’s like magic!

It’s funny, this temperature thing…………one tends to think that 20C is just a bit warmer than say, 17C and, of course it is.  Just a bit warmer.  But, at a certain point it gets too warm altogether and it becomes hot.  And that ‘transition’ seems to be more abrupt when it comes to the cold.  At 32F or 0C nothing has changed for us.  Life is the same except a few more layers of fleece, a few more hours indoors.  Even -5 at night can be ‘adjusted to’ simply by cuddling up or adding a blanket.  But -10 is like the end-of-days.  Things break.  Crack.  Freeze and seize.  The dogs won’t go out.  Engines won’t start (unless they are Hondas).  -10C is a real ‘change’, much bigger than the numbers indicate.  I hate -10C and all the numbers lower.

As soon as it warms up, I’ll be good.