It's cold

Yes, it's come - all day cold weather!

There hasn't been any snow yet, but it's quite chilly. In fact, we frequently see our own breath while doing our daily tasks around the house. It feels like we're camping out, and found a little log cabin to relax in for a while, except it has a rudimentary bathroom, gas, and electric. Speaking of the bathroom, showers are difficult; it can get really chilly very fast, since it's basically the same as taking a shower in an outdoor facility in 40 degree weather or lower. Once you get in and take the shower, the harder part is getting out and into the cold.

We have a couple utilities to keep warm, which I've told you about before, but will mention again. We have a small eletric fan heater, but we have not chosen to use it yet. We also have a heatlamp that looks like a fan without the blades; we used it for the first time last night before bed, and it was very nice. We also have a heating blanket that we haven't used yet. However, our best weapon against the cold is the kerosene heater, which is a small black device that lights a flame using the kerosene and then blows that heat out with a fan. It's the cheapest, fastest, and best way to heat a room. And that's precisely what we do -- heat a room. We don't heat the whole house, that'd cost far too much. We simply close off a room and heat it individually.

You'd think we'd heat our bedroom, but in fact we don't. We simply jump into the futons, suffer for about a minute while we heat the futons up with our body heat, and then we use several blankets to keep warm. Perhaps it's time to bring out the heating blanket.

We're getting more involved with the church. We just had new small groups made last night (Wednesday night). My group has gone from a small group of all guys to a slightly larger group of a few more ladies than guys. I went from being the youngest person in my group by at least 3 years, to being one of the oldest by 7 years. I'm looking forward to interacting with new people.

Well, I hope you are enjoying yourselves wherever you are reading this from. I'll try to post some pictures up soon.