In all of our years of living at our home this was the first day that Doug had ever spent the entirety of it inside. That was what he reported to me at ten o'clock tonight. He didn't even go out in the garage. I knew he was serious about bunkering down when he told me to buy a two liter of Diet Coke yesterday as he didn't plan on making any big pop runs until at least Thursday.
If there had to be a day to completely stay inside, this was it. The windchills fell to over -40 degrees below zero and the actual temperature hovered at -19 degrees. I don't remember a colder day since we moved to Syracuse over twenty years ago. We were fortunate as we had plenty of time to prepare for the frigid temperatures. We had plenty of food and I bought extra water just in case. We turned the fireplace on last night and kept it running so we would have a source of heat if we lost power. Thankfully, that never happened here.
Cam and Meg spent their morning and early afternoon working on their elearning assignments. Doug was able to dial into work and kept in contact with everyone that way. I finally had time to list all of the valuable Sports Illustrated magazines on Ebay. We were thrilled to find out by the end of the night that we already had bids or offers on five of them totaling $86. With a day at home we also had time to finish the Peter Pan puzzle, play Wii and watch IU lose to Rutgers. I do not love winter, but today worked out well. We spent quality time together and accomplished a lot as well.
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