A New Kind of Cold, Ski Apres, Goat, & More Adventures from Stowe (with Pictures!)

[dawn_felagund]

Sunday was a wickedly cold and windy day. Remember how I posted that we got in the hot tub on Saturday night, and I was all proud for walking barefoot in the snow? While Bobby and I were in the hot tub, we were talking about what we thought the temperature was and whether this was the coldest weather in which we'd ever been in a hot tub. "Oh, it's

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[lindahoyland]

Good Heavens, you must be tough!

[dawn_felagund]

I am but also one of those people who does stupid oh-why-not kinds of things. :D And then afterwards thinks, "That really wasn't that smart ..." In this case, I think ignorance was bliss. Kind of like the time Bobby and I walked half the length of Manhattan and back and only once we were done checked a map and discovered that we'd walked about 22 miles. Saturday night, we had no idea how cold it was. We'd just come from Maryland, where the 20s F is cold and we only drop lower than that a few times per year. And we were used to Deep Creek and getting into the hot tub there, where it drops into the single digits F but generally not much lower!

[lindahoyland]

We've only once as I can recall had it so cold here.I admit I found it hard to cope,

[dawn_felagund]

It is really hard if you're not used to it. I'm not a naturally cold-hardy person. I often tease Bobby that I was meant to be born in the tropics, but he screwed that up by being born first and in Maryland. :) Since we've moved out to Carroll County, I've gotten more used to it. It's about 8F colder where we live now than in Baltimore, and it's so expensive to heat our house that we try to use the heat as little as possible and wear extra layers. It was really rough at first--my first winter here, I was miserable!--but I've adapted.

Today, it is just a little below freezing. It feels positively balmy! :)

[lindahoyland]

I can't stand heat either!I wilt at anything over 70.I hope it continues to warm up for you. You are having a savage winter.

[dawn_felagund]

It's been very cold here again this year, but most of the snow has missed us. We've gotten ice! Which is much worse, imo. But we're supposed to hit record lows at the end of this week. I lost a number of outdoor plants last year--which was colder than this year--and suspect I will again this year.

You'd hate the heat here! :) We're a southern state with summers to prove it. (One of the advantages to the 8F difference between Baltimore: when it is unbearable there, it is merely hot where we live!) A couple summers ago, Baltimore had two straight weeks of 100F+ temperatures! Gross.

[lindahoyland]

I don't think I'd survive 100 degrees!I have a small A/C unit that I have to use in the summer in order to function at all!