The sun is going down later and coming up earlier, which gives us a grand total of 8 hours and 14 minutes of sunshine per day … provided it’s not raining or cloudy or foggy or snowy or something. We can’t help but feel a bit sorry for the folk on the north side of the hill in this picture, though, as they’re in perpetual shadow from around November through February. They live all of about six block from us, but that six blocks makes all the difference – D. took this shot at 4:15 PM!
It’s actually kind of warmish this morning, and going to the gym didn’t require us to wear scarves, for a change. We still wore multiple layers of clothing, hats, and gloves, of course – but no scarves. It’s the little things – the gradual moves away from the darkness and gloom – which we’re focused upon these days.
Here’s a random thought about living in a cold country: if you have an electric shower (one which takes cold water and flash-heats the water), you can tell how cold it is outside just by the water pressure. The colder the water temperature, the less flow goes through, which tells us roughly how chilly it will be. We’re enjoying the water pressure this morning, with the outside temperature at around 7°C / 47°F.
Happy Tuesday!
– D & T
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I love the “living in a cold country” comment! I guess that everything is relative. We are having a balmy spell right now. Today’s high was -4.3 C. I thought that I had died and gone to heaven. The sun was shining and I could actually feel warmth (when in a sheltered alcove by the school) Nothing lower than -15 C (night time low) forecasted for the next 5 days. Ahhh. Bliss. For this time of year. In this cold country.
I know, I know. Annoying Canadian 😉
We had one of those “hot water on demand” heaters when we lived in our old house. We had it installed, I believe it was a Bosch, and it used natural gas. I loved it! We never, never ran out of hot water… well only if we ran out of water but we never had that problem. We filled our hot tub up and climbed right in, no waiting for it to heat up, it was already hot, it was great! I’d put another in but no natural gas here 🙁 Is that similar to what yours is?
jackie: Yep – totally relative. We got back to California over Christmas & it was still cold … because our brains think that 10C IS cold. 🙂
Kans: Ours is electric, and probably not anywhere near the level of efficiency yours was. This works pretty well – we never would have been able to stay here if it hadn’t, ’cause the central gas was turned off for two months – but … is quite low-flow when it’s cold out!