The New Homemaker Newsletter for November 22, 2008

Dear Readers,

What a week. I'm not going to finish my Olympics sweater, and to top it off, we lost our heat on Friday morning--during the coldest weather Portland has seen in years.

After a day-long search I found an oil company to come the next day, borrowed some money for oil and now our heat is back, but it was an interesting day and night, I tell you. We got out our old electric oil-filled radiator, put it in the TV room (the smallest room of the house) and put on lots of clothes. It actually got quite toasty in the "warming room," but whenever we had to leave it to go to another part of the house it was like stepping outside.

We put extra quilts on the girls' beds, flannels on ours, and went to bed wearing bed socks and nightcaps. In the middle of the night, Lou crawled in with us; she was a popsicle. She tends to kick the covers off. She warmed up quickly and I wasn't sorry to have her in there with us; she's a little heater, which, I think, is why she kicks off her blankets. When we woke up Saturday morning it was 42 degrees inside.

So that was our little late-winter adventure. The chickens have a warming lamp in their coop to make it through nights as low as 15 degrees. We've been unusually warm in Oregon for the last 10-15 years and we've forgotten what cold weather is!

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