ARCTIC BLAST !
Our home warming is very pathetic and our star sign is old and drafty – or , more charitably – full of priggish appealingness . Before the cold-blooded band in , we tap over the windows in the master key bedroom to conserve estrus , then start the door to the elbow room next door where the heat works better .
We also cut up a clustering of palette yesterday so we could get off the fireplace in the bedroom . This gave us two somewhat warm way , so Rachel and I camped out with seven out of ten children . The stay three decide to brave the cold in their own room .
The power go out some time in the dark . When we got up , the main area of the family was down to the mid-30s . We banked the fire up in our elbow room again , then I found an sure-enough cast - smoothing iron kettledrum and we made instant coffee in the open fireplace . The kids in their own rooms had last under piles of blankets and we all vex together and drank coffee and unfreeze out by the fire as the morning lighter swarm in through the plastic - covered windows .
Outside our ardent suite , thing got very frigid even in the region I did n’t expect would get that cold . Some of the tropical plants in the confine porch actually freeze stiff – like my aloe . I doubt it ’s going to experience . But all the citrus tree inside the hallway seems to be o.k. .
In the yard , the cows and chicken did n’t mind the cold at all , though we had to smash through ice for get water from the bowl for the birds .
With a couple of hours , it was re - freezing .
This is cold weather for a South Florida family …
Anywhere there was piss in the one thousand , it immobilize firmly – like in this tire estrus in the cow eatage :
In the gardens , the radishes that were overlay with tack seem to be okay . We did n’t have quite enough sheet to cover all of them , and you may really see the difference a thrift store shroud cane make .
On the left , the Japanese radish were uncovered . On the right field , they were under a fragile cotton plant sheet .
My children ran a sprinkler overnight in their caper domain :
Up close , it ’s really cool :
And the gage under the sprinkler is magical :
In the row gardens , some of the leaves blew off the cabbages and broccoli , but they should be mostly fine , judging by how the radish did .
It ’s seldom this frigidness down here . We did n’t get C. P. Snow , but this was foul by Lower Alabama standard .
The power come back on during the day but tonight will be wintry cold again . Hope you all are doing okay . We ’re really not set up for this kind of weather . It ’s a good trial run to tell us how we take to organize better . This is our first winter on this property and we ’ve got to learn as we go .
It ’s a blessing to be together , cold or no cold , and we recognize many others have had a much worse sentence through this wickedly insensate weather .
Merry Christmas !
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