Last weekend we got 8 inches of snow. Starting on Thursday the 16th we have had strong winds, rain, snow sleet and lots more wind. St. Patrick's Day was cold and windy. At 8Pm it was 17 with a fells like temperature of -2. Let me tell you when I went out to feed the animals, I felt it through all my layers. The wind at 25 mph is so strong and chilled me to the bone. Yesterday was nasty too with a rainy morning, sleet afternoon and ferocious wind all through the night. The winds blew day and night. I am so grateful for modern living, solid homes with heat and electricity. Our living room has a large patio glass door that is very drafty. It is often cold in there compared to the rest of the house. On windy days when the wind is out of the west, it blows in all day. Our back laundry room and bathroom are even worse. We have decided the previous owners who built this house must not have insulated the walls very well. These rooms can feel very frigid. I often cover the windows to help try to warm it up a bit. The basement of our house is warmer and the back south bedrooms tend to stay toasty. I am so glad for a warm bedroom and lots of covers in the night. I think back to the early days when pioneers traveled in covered wagons and later lived in cabins and it makes me cold just thinking about it. I also think a lot about soldiers during war sleeping in cold tents with limited resources. I cannot even begin to imagine enduring some of the cold they did.. We have it so good and I am so thankful we live in modern times and are protected from cold in our homes.
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