Winter has finally arrived here in Northern California… We finally have rain, accompanied by occasional thunder. We stare at the sky looking for hail or snow… The snow level is down to maybe 2,000 feet… we may have snow on the hills on both sides of the bay. It must be winter just in time for Christmas. (an in time to really screw up the Santa Cruz to San Jose commute tomorrow morning….)
At the house, the historic house museum, there is a song about the house museum, or is it about Alice and her restaurant, no, there is a song about the house museum too… The house is full of smoke… every time we light the stove. Maybe something has climbed in one of our chimneys and died… at least that’s the best explanation I can think of for all the smoke when I light the fire in the stove (wood fire, wood burning stove.) That is tomorrow’s problem… Soot, wood smoke, sheet metal, ladders… I am getting excited.
Outside I am using Christmas lights to keep our orange from freezing. If it gets colder I will put sheets over the tree.
We are spoiled here near San Francisco Bay… The coldest EVER temperature is about 20 degrees, for a few hours… the hottest is just over 100 for a couple of days… We can do fine without air conditioning… While we complain, it’s never really that cold.
Until tomorrow...
I know I complain when its colder than 50, maybe 55 and warmer than 85...
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