The current temperature in Madison, WI is -7 degrees below zero. Our power went out for about half an hour this morning (my understanding is that the entire village was out,) meaning NO FURNACE; I watched with gnawing panic as the thermostat in the house dropped 4 degrees in 15 minutes, visions of spending the night on a cot at the high school gym dancing in my head.
Naturally, there's no school today so I, being a good Samaritan, have agreed to take charge of a friend's 4-year old son so she could go to work. As I write, my house sounds like feeding time at the zoo. Three wild, involuntarily housebound boys under 6 whooping, screeching, and baying, spraying toys everywhere in their wake.
So I choose to type rather than face them. Hey, I've got work to do. No harm, no foul.
The bitter irony is, the sun is shining brightly and the sky is a placid sheet of icy blue. It is, aesthetically speaking, as clear and beautiful of a day as we've seen in some time. In other words, we're being mocked by Mother Nature: You can look, but you better not touch.
It's a day to be thankful for little favors, like indoor heating, a well charged car battery, and the fact that, unlike my neighbor, I do not have to take my dog out for a walk in the dangerous sub-arctic air.
I may also be thankful for Jack Daniels later. We'll see how well the boys get along.
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Times like this I'm glad I don't have neighbors. And you should see how brightly Dave's truck shines in this sunlight. Oh, and Jack Daniels is always something to be thankful for, I thought you knew that.
I guess that's everything.
Oh wait!
Our power was out, too - so I wonder how wide the swath was. But we have a wood stove, city slicker.
OK NOW that's everything. For now.
I have established the outage as ranging from at least Little Norway to Culvers, so it was pretty expansive.
I burned some trash in a garbage can. That got us through.
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