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Layla ([personal profile] layla) wrote2006-11-20 08:35 pm
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It's cold in here

The fire in the boiler apparently didn't catch when I fed it this morning, so it and the house have been sitting all day at -20(ish) with no source of heat. And it's freakin' cold in here. The thermostat goes down to 50F, and the needle is huddling cozily at the bottom of the scale.

I have a pretty high cold tolerance, but this is less than comfortable. It's so cold I don't want to type. All I want to do is huddle. But I have to finish Freebird for tomorrow.

At least it's not literally below freezing in here. Water sources actually *would* freeze in the cabin when I was a kid.

*shiver*
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[identity profile] ldragoon.livejournal.com 2006-11-21 04:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Wow, this certainly takes me back! I'm glad my Dad was always on top of keeping our wood burning stove lit -- at least, if it didn't catch, I don't remember. Our cabin was well insulated, but small, and I remember lying in bed shivering waiting for the chimney to heat up the bedroom a little more.

[identity profile] laylalawlor.livejournal.com 2006-11-21 04:26 pm (UTC)(link)
You guys had wood heat? Cooool. It's always nice to not be the only one! Out of curiosity, where was this?

[identity profile] ldragoon.livejournal.com 2006-11-21 04:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Way Upstate New York. I grew up in a little town called Chazy. Dad hauled logs out of the woods and made a cabin from scratch, and for most of my childhood we had a wood burning stove (he eventually upgraded to oil base board heat. I think the worst it would get up there was about -15 at night in the winter, not nearly as bad as where you guys were, I think! :P Still plenty chilly though!

[identity profile] laylalawlor.livejournal.com 2006-11-21 08:30 pm (UTC)(link)
That's so cool! I knew that upstate N.Y. was woodsy, but I never knew it was *that* woodsy. What was it like -- were you guys actually in town, or out of town in the rural boonies, and if so, how far out? I hope you don't mind me being nosy; I'm just always interested to meet someone who grew up similar to how I did.

Also out of curiosity, where is Chazy relative to Ithaca? That's where my sister lives. I know it's farther down the state, but I've never been out to visit her and I'm kind of vague on the geography in that part of the country.

[identity profile] ldragoon.livejournal.com 2006-11-21 08:40 pm (UTC)(link)
No problem! I love talking about living there. :) We were in the boonies -- about 30 minutes from Chazy, which was a pretty damn small town, and 40 minutes from Plattsburgh, which was a slightly bigger damn small town. :P I'm not so sure where it was in relation to Ithaca, but we were about 15 minutes from the Canadian border into Quebec. I loved growing up there, but it's very povery-stricken, and there aren't many jobs to go after.
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