Ending and Beginning

Winter arrived yesterday with 2 or 3 inches of snow and horrible driving conditions on the way home from work, followed by colder temps and wind today. It had to happen sometime.

And so we turned on the furnace today. For now, we just put a floor under the temp by setting it at 60°F — if we want to be warmer than that, we have to use the woodstove. I tend to become more sensitive to the cold as the Winter goes on, so we’ll probably gradually turn up the thermostat as we get into late January and February.

We could have gone longer without turning on the furnace…but we did need to know if it worked or not before it got really cold (seems like in the last 5 years the furnace hasn’t worked as often as it has the first time we’ve turned it on for the season), and I like the idea of putting a floor under the indoor temperature in case we forget to stoke the stove before bed or before going out.

I noticed that it was about 48°F in the basement this morning.

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