So, my question to all of you...with the recent drop in temperatures have you turned your heat on yet? And Im curious what is your house hold heat policy? I ask this because it seems Skip and I have this ongoing battle over the temperature of the house! In the summer, he must have the air conditioners on to keep the house the cool. The house is so cold in the summer, Id rather be outside! I wear sweatshirts and long sleeve pants around house all summer long. Our house is so cold that our windows are glazed over with frost as the cold glass feels the hot air from the outside! This year we turned the heat off early, like maybe May?? Now living in New England you all know how the weather can be quite drastic from one day to the next! So here I sit bundled in my bed with 4 blankets wrapped around me like a tortilla and yet I am still cold. You ask, "Well, why not turn your heat on?" Hmmm...lets talk about this for a minute...oh yah, we have no oil because my husband let the tank run out. I ask, "Hon...Can you please get us heat soon?" We have a baby. The temperature on the thermostat reads 60 degrees. What does yours read? Are you warm? Can you turn your heat on this fall or will you be like me and Sadie huddled up in blankets with frost on the tips of our noses?
Another topic for discussion tonight...with the cold weather finally here, do you have an abundance of the large, hairy brown spiders creeping in your house? I have been fortunate that I have only seen one in my house so far, perhaps it is because it is warmer outside than it is inside my house. Spiders arent dumb. Its warmer for them to creep under a log or rock than it is to creep into my house! Brown hairy spiders give me that sick feeling in my stomach. Like Im not sure if I want to roll on the floor or throw up! My body shakes. I saw one of these spiders Friday night by the side of my bed. Luckily I had had a few drinks so I became brave and grabbed the nearest object which was a book and smacked the spider until it dropped. Legs curled in towards the middle of the spider and I knew its creeping days were over. Let know what your family's heat unspoken heat policy is. Im curious...
-Sarah
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Oh Sara, you gave me a good laugh for the afternoon. First, the joys of living in an old house are many and then, living with the Clifford men brings even more joys to your life. It has been 30 years now and I still am completely dumbfounded by their logic. My advice to you is be assertive and if it only takes a phone call to fill the tank - make it. If you wait for Skip it will be November. Then put the thermostat on a timer set to 60 during the day when no one is really in the house and then have the timer set for 2pm for 70 degrees. That way by the time you get home the house will be warm and you have each achieved a goal. (Of course, getting a timer installed on the thermostat may require one more call to an electrician or someone who has the expertise to install it.) We Clifford ladies when dealing with our men need to be one step ahead and always ALWAYS have your argument well prepared.
I agree! :)
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