130 Club

I am now a member of the 130 club. Saturday afternoon I stripped down to my garden clogs and ran outside to the hot tub, which was at 104 degrees. Outside the sun was shining bright on the clean snow, but the air temperature was -15 and with the wind chill -30. Yikes. Invigorating. Painful. On my run back to the house my fingers stuck to the doorknob.

We are experiencing the more normal Wisconsin winter. Crazy to think we are on the exact parallel as Portland but no Pacific Ocean to keep the air warmer. We had ice on the inside of our windows this morning. The curtain over our bedroom window was frozen to the plastic we keep over our windows to keep the windows sealed. For all of you northwesterners, the midwest has two weird window features. One is insect screens. All the windows have a fine mesh screen to keep out bugs (mosquitos, ladybugs, junebugs, wasps). Second is plastic wrap for windows. The wrap comes in big sheets that fit over the window and has tape that you put on your trim. The wrap sticks nicely to the tape. The awesome part is that you blow-dry the wrap and it's barely visible to the naked eye! You will notice ours at night as the light reflection in the wrap warps in variation and shape as the wind moves it. Through the window.

I digress. No worries, Owain is staying nice and warm jumping inside. In fact under his johnny jump-up the polyurathane protection is flaking off the floor. I guess the protectant is no match for Owain's sleeper soles!

An exciting update - no school on Monday the weather was too cold. It was a fun day stoking fires, cooking food, playing with Owain and flirting with Charis.

Jay