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Another day dawns soon, highs near 80f again. My little Vornado fan is ready to blast air over me, so it should be survivable.
Tomorrow only in the upper 60f's so I'm planning on a grocery trip. Need beans, potatoes, cooking spray, ground meat of some kind, coffee creamer and I think some instant decaf and a quart of milk. Also corn tortillas and butter, I'm getting critically low on tortillas. Nothing nicer than heating corn tortillas wrapped in foil with pats of butter between each tortilla! OMG could eat a dozen of those!
Considering selling my 3TB eSATA drive, I don't use it for anything now. Might as well trade it for food and beer! :-)
very useful device. also when sick. and while meoows make for totally awesome heating, much cuter, fluffier, & full of love, you can place the bottles where you want... so they don't hide your screen or stop you moving your legs
I have also never heard of anyone geting clawed and chewed by a hot water bottle.. although.. stranger things have occured in this world... :-|
hmm, unless i'm trying to force medication/care on them (which, due to experience, i first try to innocently hide in a snack when possible/applicable), i never get clawed nor chewed XD. i only share my space with average house felines, my adventurous phase challenging big predators is over... jk
you just have to read the notice on the water bottle very carefully :D
wuh wuh wuh woah ohh livin on a prayer
feelin a bit feisty today
and cold brr brrr, wearin a shawl at my desk
and why not. Shawls are very handy things, can be quite tasteful and are just as useful as walking sticks. Matching Shawl and walking stick, I wonder if anyone has ever thought about selling that as a package in real life.
Here, I lucked out. My rental arrangement is a simple $400 per month including elec. and gas! There are two apartments in this house. I have 1/3 of the house and a family has the other 2/3. There is only one electric and one gas meter. I worried at first about getting an A/C. Primarily because I wasn't sure the I had enough circuits but after some experiments I discovered that if careful I do. I can't run an A/C downstairs for the living room, kitchen & bathroom because a) it would probably blow a fuse if my computers, & TV equipment were on too and b) there's no adequate window available.
However, I have one window in my bedroom (the only room upstairs) that is wide enough and unobstructed to take a typical A/C unit. So, in the worst summer days the A/C keeps my bedroom comfortable and the cool air wafts down the stairway into the living room keeping it tolerable if I lounge around half naked. Which works out well because nobody ever comes to visit me.
The family in the other part of the house uses electricity MUCH more than I do with their multiple A/Cs, dishwasher, clothes washer & dryer, big refrigerator, etc. So, my little contribution is aparently hardly noticed. As long as I play the role of a decript old man who lives only on Social Security payments, washes his dishes by hand, does his laundry at a laundromat, doesn't over use his A/C, doesn't complain, keeps his apartment clean & tidy, and always pays his rent on time, I'm hoping to retain my position here. Knock on wood!
However, the disadvantage of this arrangement is that there is only one heating system. And there is only one thermostat. But it is on the family's side of the house. So I have to live with what they consider comfortable. Which sometimes isn't. Especially when they go away on vacation and turn down the thermostat a bit to save gas or decide they're too cold and crank up the heat.
I'm continually opening/closing my one and only floor air register to adjust how much heat I'm getting into my apartment.
definitely more stylish and less bulky as wearing a winter jacket in bed and in the kitchen. my fingerless gloves look cool tho
In New England, a screen is a normal thing. Theives just cut it, or pry it up. Most don't lock in place, so it doesn't matter much.
Dana
It's 54f here at 12:38 pm. So, it will likely get warmer before it starts going down again. We have central air conditioning and heating. No open windows required...keeps things in better shape without all that humidity creeping in.
LG, consider a portable A/C unit. You can probably rig something to get the exhaust out of small windows. Just a thought.
Dana
We have one large orange tomcat and two female kittens, they belong to my housemate. The tom is super lazy and does what older cats do - sleep, go outside, sleep, yowl about the weather, and sleep. The kittens sleep all day and spend all night knocking over anything that isn't nailed down. Only been clawed lately playing with the kittens, I wiggle my finger under a cushion and they're adept at getting a paw on me - I'm pretty slow.
I don't normally read instruction labels.. maybe I'd better start! 'Death by hot water bottle' sounds pretty ignoble... :-O
It sounds like a pretty good idea! It gets windy here so shawls would be appropriate, I'd probably by a set if they were stylish.
It sounds to me like you're mostly in good shape. The heat thing sounds annoying, though. The AC/Heat here is central, it works pretty well especially now I have my insulated blackout curtains installed. Best investment I ever made!
The window in this room is HUGE and would swallow a window unit air conditioner. Mot to mention the wiring could be better, if I try to run my air fryer and foot heater at the same time it throws a breaker, so I just don't do that. :-/
I wonder why movie monsters never just cut the screen? Must be some weird unwritten screenwriters rule, or maybe a Union thing... :-|
nothing cuter than kitten or cats running around all night! especially when they barely miss your face when you lie asleep.. aaah, good times. don't the kitten love your feet too? with their adorable, pointy penetrating little fangs and claws?
i live with a bunch of them meanwhile adult miniature tigers. Bastet has blessed my home, lol. right now, they're all piled up on our (theirs, although i'm allowed on it too, they're very generous) enormous selfmade bed in the only properly heated room, since they're not stupid enough to wander around by this cold. and they sleep a lot. some have a tendency to throw around things and be very curious, luckily it's not necessarily the ones who can open doors. which technically doesn't matter, cuz once the door is open, the rest follow.. *facepalm*. hence, the whole place is pretty much installed for them. bed, shelves, baskets, almost no furniture and all of it old or plastic. nothing damageable. kitchen is off-limits, there i have all my stuff, books, dvd, clothes, e-ve-ry-thing "mine". and all of it in plastic boxes. cuz in the kitchen no cats... but a lot of (uninvited) mice XDDDD.
oh i'm sure a hot water bottle could be lethal. fill it with water, put in it the freezer (my bathroom right now would do fine too), and bam! you have a weapon. disposable, at least the ice inside... urgh, too many sherlock holmes games XDD
should run with this idea. shape shouldn't be too difficult with a sewing machine!
...yeah I miss gas heat. Actually more efficient at warming a volume of air. Last place I lived at had it however there was no duct for my room and the only thing I had was one of those crappy electric baseboard heaters (of course right below two large single pane windows which were drafty as it was an older house). Often before turning in I'd step into the hallway which had a floor vent by my door and stand over it for a few minutes to warm up before heading off to bed where I bundled myself in blankets to hold in the warmth I just soaked up.
...44° with rain beating against the window here. Good day to stay inside. Have enough food to make it to Caturday when we get a brief dry spell and it actually gets up into the 50s.
Your bed is in the kitchen?
Morning. Something happened to the weather while we were away! There’s no place like home but looks like the sun haz moved somewhere warmer ;0
I think it came here. Nice all day. Hit at least 56f, might have gotten warmer, I didn't check every hour. Back down to 51f now, though.
Dana
Tiny claws are definitely pointy claws! Like tiny daggers sliding betwen chain mail links, but in this case there's no armor on and OWW! The kittens knock over things in the kitchen and have turned an empty microwave box into an instant funhouse and castle. They're cute until they try to crawl up a leg... :-O
Hmm, hot water bottle of ice. Perfect to bludgeon someone to death, then the ice melts! Poof, no murder weapon. I also doubt the bottle would hold fingerprints. You can tell I'm an amateur mystery/industrial espionage writer, right? ;-P
...must have changed planes in Atlanta as it's a "no-show" here.
nope XD. 2 different places. but those 2 frigid last days/nights, our live-in room (the only one i can warm up a bit with 1-2 fan-heaters) and the kitchen for quick dives (well, i need to eat some times, right) were the only places you'd have encountered me in this decrepit unheated dump i call my flat. in bed under the covers, or in max 5min short visits to grab some food. i even brought the meoows plates in here (room) instead of their dedicated dining area. but now temp's going up, i can move around again without freezing on the spot - the hardship is over :) one more month of winter and it will even become live-able again. summers here are nice tho, with sight on forest & pond (including roe-deer, foxes, newts etc), scarce neighbors, and no need for AC :)
some might wonder why i put up with this - pretty simple: sickness benefits, almost no income, a batch of felines = no choice, nobody wants us, except the old landlady, she has her protegees too, and she rented us this place for a song, helps us both. :shrug:
If I had any feeling left in my fingertips I'd almost give this a shot! Could sell 'em on Etsy or something...
Baseboard heat :-(
50f's fare more survivable!
The wall near the foot of my bed has a long cabinet containing mini-fridge with freezer (2 doors), my air fryer, my Keurig machine and my pantry. It's super easy to just fall out of bed, get coffee, and cook breakfast! I use paper plates and plastic utensils so cleanup is simple, toos the dishes!!! :-O
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..my place is almost like that. Kitchen just off main room and bed is closest to it.