Temperatures going down into the mid 20s tonight…but that’s just for openers. NOAA is calling for temperatures Thursday and Friday evenings down in the single digits. 7 to 12 Thursday night…4 to 9 Friday night.<\/p>\n
I’ve taken some extra steps to plug up a few heat leaks this year. Casa del Garrett has a bathroom skylight that’s basically just some glass panes with wire honeycomb between them. It’s at the top of a box that goes through the ceiling and it has a vent in the middle that, though closed, isn’t really tight. So I put up some plastic sheet at the roofline, and another plastic sheet at the ceiling line. I’ve also stretched plastic sheet over the front office windows. They’re double-pane and supposed to be "weather proof" but I’ve noticed some slight leakage around them. The effect has been noticeable. The entire second floor is much warmer in the mornings now then before.<\/p>\n
Even so, my front and back walls, which are exposed, get darn cold to the touch when the temperatures dip down. They didn’t build these 1950s rowhouses to hold in heat because energy was cheap then. My front and back walls are brick veneer, concrete block and plaster and that’s it. So I can walk up to one and not even put my hand on it to feel the cold radiating off it. Actually, that’s my heat leaking out. It’s times like this I’m glad I’m not an end of group unit.<\/p>\n
What I probably need to do, is build an interior wall out from the front and back walls. Put up some studs and put insulation between them and put drywall over that. It’ll cost me some space and I’ll have to extend my window frames but that’s the only way I can see to keep the heat from leaking out of those walls.<\/p>\n
Friday’s my telecommute day, so I won’t have to walk to work in that frigid air. But for kicks and grins I might take a walk out in it anyway. A heavy blanket of frigid air like that changes things outdoors. It’s like everything just…stops. Stiller then when it’s snowing. It’s like death out there…but it isn’t death, life is hunkering down and waiting it out. But everything is so…still. And it’s a different kind of stillness then when it’s snowing. It’s an empty, bottomless stillness. Almost eternal. Life is on hold…the cold winter wind finally has reign. Nothing moves, except the wind…looking for something…anything, that might still be moving…and finding nothing. Until the sun comes out a bit…and the birds…the ones that the hard freeze didn’t kill…start darting about. I’ll need to put out some extra food for them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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