2023 Life Logs, Day 34: Really COLD
Date: Friday, February 3, 2023
Weather: Sunny, Windy, and Cold; High 35, Low -3 degrees F (feels ~20 degrees colder with wind chill)
Sunrise and Sunset: 6:52 am – 5:02 pm (+3 minutes)
Location: At Home in the Cottage, East Falmouth, NH
Watching the weather on my phone tonight is a little scary. Every time I look, it is 2 degrees colder and is presently at 6 degrees F with gale force winds, so it feels like -16 F currently. This morning at 7:30 am when I took Shadow outside for the first outing of the day, it was windy, but didn’t really feel too cold. But as the day progressed, that changed quickly. Tonight, when I have gone outside with Shadow, I can really feel the cold and don’t want to be outside for too long. I’m still recovering from playing fetch for 15 minutes around 5 pm. I still have that burning feeling you get when you stay out in the cold too long. But if we can make it through tonight and tomorrow night, things should warm up considerably.
I spent most of my day today driving to Boston to pick up my Olga Mitchell from the New England Baptist hospital where she had a shoulder replacement on Wednesday. She is 89, which is always a worry with surgery, but she seemed to be doing great. Tomorrow we head back up north to Wrentham to spend the afternoon at the Supercharged Entertainment for Sam’s belated birthday party. It has a multi-level go-kart track and “Insane Fun Guaranteed” is the advertisement.
After I took Olga home late this afternoon, I made it to the last few minutes of a Nominating Committee meeting and then came home to play with Shadow. I ate an early dinner since I had totally forgotten to eat lunch and then I headed to Heather and Jed’s to take Sam to winter soccer practice. He has a cold and did not go to school today and decided not to go to practice tonight, so I headed home. Heather had taken Jonah to get his hair cut before taking him to indoor soccer practice, so was not at home. Jonah’s hair was growing out and getting a little on the ‘wild’ side. Heather sent photos and I love the new look.
