When we went to bed last night around 10:30, the temp was measuring at 20 degrees or so. Pretty cool, but no great shakes. Especially for this Winter.
I woke up around 4 this morning to tend our fire. While doing so, I checked the temperature again and it was 14 degrees.
Hmmmph. So much for the “cold,” I thought. I mixed up the coals so they could burn down some more then laid down on the couch to get a little more sleep. I sleep on the couch in the mornings like that so as not to wake the Wife with repeated trips out of bed. Besides, the couch is actually pretty comfortable when the fire is going.
I woke up again to load up the fireplace with would around 5:30. Once again, for HA-HA’s I checked the temperature.
8 degrees. The temp had fallen 6 degree’s in one-and-a-half hours. The same amount it had fallen in the 6 hours from when I went to bed to when I got up the first time.
As I sit here typing this, it’s now down to 4 degrees. The Sun is up, as is everyone else in the house. Now I get to take the boy to hockey.
My fire tending duties weren’t for naught.
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60 days until Spring arrives !