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Autumn arrived
Oct. 21st, 2005 11:19 pmFall has finally arrived for real and looks to be staying. The weather is cool and rainy, and every time I drive our car out of the alley behind our house, I'm blown away by the progress of the maple tree across the street.
It felt very odd, driving up to Michigan two weeks ago. It was 80 degrees and we were dressed in shorts. There were obscene amounts of road construction going on. Everything was telling my body that it was summer. But the trees were changing because, after all, it was October. The cognitive dissonance was almost too much to bear.
K went to bed dressed in one of her new fleece sleep sacks, which will hopefully help her stay warm throughout the night. I'm trying to figure out how warm we need to keep the house this winter. Normally, we keep it frigid and dress warm and spend a lot of time huddled under blankets with the cats. I'm a knitter, making things to keep us warm gives me a purpose in life. I was reading an article on conserving heat this winter and the author was recommending 68 during the day, 60 at night and 55 when you're out of the house. For us to follow that, we would be turning the heat _up_.
But now, we have this baby. And I'm pretty sure she'd like to stay warm. I'm planning to get her some undershirts to go under her long-sleeved onesies and she has more onesies to go under her one-piece outfits, but I still worry that 65 is too cool for her during the day. And 55 at night seems really too cold when you can't pile the blankets on. But boy, turning the heat up will really hurt with the price of gas the way it is. So I'm trying to find the happy medium between warm enough that we don't have a babysicle, but cool enough that we still have a house to live in once we're done paying the gas bill.
It felt very odd, driving up to Michigan two weeks ago. It was 80 degrees and we were dressed in shorts. There were obscene amounts of road construction going on. Everything was telling my body that it was summer. But the trees were changing because, after all, it was October. The cognitive dissonance was almost too much to bear.
K went to bed dressed in one of her new fleece sleep sacks, which will hopefully help her stay warm throughout the night. I'm trying to figure out how warm we need to keep the house this winter. Normally, we keep it frigid and dress warm and spend a lot of time huddled under blankets with the cats. I'm a knitter, making things to keep us warm gives me a purpose in life. I was reading an article on conserving heat this winter and the author was recommending 68 during the day, 60 at night and 55 when you're out of the house. For us to follow that, we would be turning the heat _up_.
But now, we have this baby. And I'm pretty sure she'd like to stay warm. I'm planning to get her some undershirts to go under her long-sleeved onesies and she has more onesies to go under her one-piece outfits, but I still worry that 65 is too cool for her during the day. And 55 at night seems really too cold when you can't pile the blankets on. But boy, turning the heat up will really hurt with the price of gas the way it is. So I'm trying to find the happy medium between warm enough that we don't have a babysicle, but cool enough that we still have a house to live in once we're done paying the gas bill.
