Things have been fairly quiet around here the past two weekends. And cold. Very cold.
Did you know that having holes in your house doesn't help it stay warm? Did you know that people shove insulation up in the ceiling to hide the fact that there's missing floorboards? And did you know that if you do not set up your gutters correctly (and keep it that way for 2039589 years) it will rot *really* important pieces of wood and turn it into a pile of dust?
That's what we've been learning about while preparing the basement for winter. Well, to be fair, Mike has been the one down there the majority of the time by himself, to save me from discovering creepy crawly things in the basement (what a saint!) Now our basement is a disaster again, but I'm hoping to get things back in order next weekend. Or the weekend after that. Or three years from now.
We also covered the old windows in the office, guest bedroom, and kitchen with one of those plastic kits. It was a night and day difference! It really helped decrease the draft and house also stopped "whistling," which I never really noticed until the sound was gone. After the windows were sealed, we turned on the heat.
We tried to think of it as a contest - you know, to make it... fun - to see how long we could go without heat. It wasn't too terribly bad at first. But when we were drinking hot chocolate, wearing three layers of clothing, clutching onto the dogs for additional warmth, and were STILL cold, we realized it was time to surrender to the oil tank.
I'm pretty warm-blooded and I think Mike was born in a volcano, so we agreed on 66F. I'm sure that seems chilly to most, but we get a fair amount of sunlight in every room of the house during the day. We also thought our dads (and dads around the world) would be pretty proud of us if we kept it down that low.
Welp, if I talked any longer about insulating a house you would probably fall asleep at your computer. So I'll stop here. Until next time, dear readers!
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