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After reading the last post, thinking it might hold clues... couldn't remember with certainty though... yes. I went to bed right after typing the sending. I was absolutely shot.
I am trying various things to get and keep my feet warmer at night. I have the electric blanket, and water bottles to be filled with hot water with warm cozies of their own. While out yesterday I changed added sam's club to my club list, and will be letting costco go. It's a dei thing. Costco is a bitter clinger. I won't allow it to profit from my business as such. Most companies are coming around, some are doubling down. Choices have consequences.
While getting my membership, I saw something I was considering purchasing... for warmth. Chemical packet hand warmers. So, last night, I tore a couple open, and put them at the foot of my bed. Not directly on my legs or feet, but inside the blankets, a few layers down.
When I crawled in, I couldn't feel them? But I felt a general warmth. And, all night, my feet stayed warm. Not hot, which I also feared. Just pleasantly, gently, warm. And, this morning, I opened a packet (of two), and put them in my house jacket pockets. When my hands get a bit chill, I go and grab those. Eight hours, they say. Started them around five thirty, six, will find out. As such, I am not turning the heat up in this front room, but I am in the main of the house.
As well, I picked up a bunch of cat litter. It is a third the price of Amazon, but it isn't delivered. I can live with that. Now I need to get the cat litter boxes cleaned, cleared, and reset. And... do some things in the living room, in order the move the computer station in there. Perhaps another des, as well.
Perhaps more work in here, if I can get the living room finished. Though, I want to steam vacuum the carpet in there. It has to be clear first, though. After that, it would be a good time to vacate the house, use the O2 generator to help clear odors and pests, while Sassy and I go on a few day vacation. Let the carpet dry, and let the O2 machine do it's magic.
That should rid most pests, though will it get rid of a common beetle, other bugs? I'm... curious if that will do it. Though, too, I am not sure how it will work with the furnace? I may have to shut that down, so may not want to do those things until it is warm enough to go without the furnace. I'll have to check on that. I do know it will kill oxygen breathers, most mammals, including pets and people. So... using it with some caution is wise.
Yes, thinking. I've been thinking on these things for a while. Just didn't dig deeper because I wasn't sure it would work out. It's... begun, so I best get to things.
It's 17 out there, give or take a degree or two. Sleepy eyes and brain are only just so accurate. It's what I remember. Later.
Still working on cabbage and steak, last half of a larger one done. Still have a small cut left, 1/3 or more cabbage left, no butter today, red pepper didn't burn its way out, so repeated heavy red (running short on black), worry 'bout the heat on the dogs, then they share meat not the cabbage where the flakes reside.
ReplyDeleteGot chilled this morning in a boiler room of all places, cold damp combustion air, rushing past. Just had a t & sweatshirt, and my bibs, windbreaker and vest in the truck, hey I was in a Boiler room. No watchcap, and the "hoodie" restricts my vision. I was shivering for the last hour before turnover "could hardly write" one wave of nausea (I'd eaten so wasn't MT gut. Dosen't compare to emergency heating call Christmas eve 95-96, roof of the Empire mall SF SD. Nothing between me and the artic except ND and Canada. Wind blew away/ covered my tracks and drifted over the roof hatch. Mall closing 2200 I'm stuck on a flat roof in a "no travel advisory" blizzard. Cant find the roof hatch. Cell phone back then was literally a brick so it was in the van. Tried to get security's attention, actually looked for a smowdrift to jump into from what? 20-60 feet! Decided to walk a shuffle search grid (gas lines running cross the roof caused a couple falls) determined that if I couldnt find this hatch there was another at the other end of the mall, (blocks?) away, failing that I could climb into a rooftop air handler to stay warm till morning. I was fully bundled for a blizzard, but I'd take the easy air handler over fighting -20 with WIND.
I found the roof hatch.
I need to get shopping. Steak, mostly, though cabbage and a few other things. Sometime this coming week. Would like to today, but can't do it.
ReplyDeleteYes, the cold. To be honest, I think being carnivore makes me more susceptible. Though... I fell off, and am still cold? Ah... but... I think? Once you go carnivore hard enough, deep enough, for long enough? Carbs just aren't used as they used to be?
Though, there are cold parts of the world, for this, that, or no reason. So that no matter, it's going to be bitter. Being from NW Iowa... we had a spell were the high, for four months? Three? Was -20. The high. The coldest? I think it got down to -75 or -85, if with windchill. Only -55 to -65 without the wind? Or such.
I used to be able to handle the cold. In a near dead body, it's just not the same. Handwarmers, my friend. But... those aren't instant. It takes 15 minutes to warm up. But... lasts, after that. Just a thought. I bought some yesterday. Works to keep my feet warm, or did last night, without burning... if with a few blankets sandwiching both sides of them.
Yeah, that cold can hurt, or me. Fingernails hurt, at the roots, if I get too cold. Handwarmers... Using some now, down here. Needed, until the heat began to warm this room.