Warm
THERE IS A WEATHER STATION here in town reporting 43°F outside. The lady on our public radio station this morning said today would be “warm, with highs around forty” and chilly as that sounds it really does seem warm on this sunny afternoon.
This is the third day running we have gone above freezing. I don't think that has happened since before Christmas, or maybe since the weekend before that, when twenty-two inches of snow fell on us in less than twenty-four hours. A lot of that still lingers today, despite the heat wave.
The silence of the past couple of days, when the furnace shuts down for want of more heating to do, has been almost unsettling. The whir and rattle of the circulating pumps has been a constant backdrop of my life for days on end. When it isn't there, my first reaction is invariably one of vague unease, wondering whether something has gone wrong down in the boiler room.