THIS is freakish:
Those are icicles. I took that picture around 1 p.m. That's really freaking weird. The sky is gray, the lawns are brown, and my heat pump has not shut off for more than a few minutes in the last couple of days, and I fear for my electric bill.
Murphy doesn't think too much of this. The same dog who was all ready to explore the snow in Asheville does NOT approve of the cold weather in Florida. Snow and ice on vacation was an adventure. Sleet and icicles at home in Florida is just plain wrong, and he would like a wake-up call for when the sunshine returns. He will go outside when a dog must, but hustles in again as quickly as he can. Walkies? Forget it.
The cats would appreciate a space heater near the litterboxes in the garage, and heated floors.
But this won't last forever - next weekend we will be back around 75 degrees.
Heated floors - when we moved to a grazing property in 1979, the house was built with hydro-powered hot water heating pipes in the floor. With a dedicated 'loop' just in front of the WC. You could always tell where the pipelines were buried by the stretched out, belly down puddy-tats. The combo of heated floor and cork tiles was the BEST.
ReplyDeleteGae, in Callala Bay
It's six below here in Iowa right now. We're all hopefull, though---it's supposed to get up to 18 degrees sometime today. (!)
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