Thinking of Christmas----Labels

[Joanie]

It would be perfect if it was snowy for the 2 weeks around Christmas and New Year's. I'd be happy as a clam if it was 74 the rest of the year!

R, I know you miss it.

 

[jobe05]

Thats why we love NC so much Joan.

We lived in central NY (Syracuse area including Rochester) till the Noreaster of 1993, thats when I said enough! My wife and I were spending nearly 6 months out of the year in Florida anyways, so we moved............. but a family can't live in Florida anymore. It's a great place to take kids, but not raise them. So we moved to NC in October of 1999........ right up till Christmas eve that year it was in the 60's to 70's every day, then on Christmas eve (afternoon) it started snowing big flakes that just came ever so slowly out of the sky. It was so wonderful after not having snow for so many years, and my youngest haven never seen snow. It snowed all xmas eve and most of christmas day........... Then that was it for the rest of the year................

I love North Carolina..............

 

[grapeman]

What I am dreading more than the snow as winter approaches is the cold weather- and the outrageous cost of heating a home today. I laugh when I hear on the news nationwide that the cost of heatin a home this year will be almost $1000. With heating oil at $3 per gallon we can only wish it will only cost that much. In a mild winter we burn about 600 gallons of fuel, keepin the heat at 55 at night and 62 during the day when we are home. When nobody is here it kicks back to 60. Our home is about 8 years old and very well insulated. I need to cut back on wine supplies and such to help buy fuel this winter. So you folks that have mild winter weather, we envy you for your lack of need to heat(of course we don't need cool much.)

 

[NorthernWinos]

Yikes...that hurts to spend that much on heat....seems like that is an awful lot...not a lot of gallons...but a lot of money.
We burn firewood...the house is always so hot...our bedroom window is always open [all summer and cracked a bit in the winter]...I tried to crank it shut the other day to wash it and I think it has warped or something.


We have a backup propane furnace, but never use it, it would be for emergencies and when we get too old and decrepit to cut wood...As well we have electric baseboards [which we use in spring and fall a bit] and electric hot water heat in the downstairs floor and out in the sun room....We do heat the floor in the sun room in winter as we eat out there all the time and occasionally turn part of the downstairs floor on.
Our winter electric heating bills are less than when we have the AC on in the summer.


I feel for people who don't have good insulation and good windows...we lived in the old farmhouse that was here for one and a half winters...It was miserible...we'd move out of our bedroom when there would get frost on the walls...and in the summer is was stifling upstairs....Jim wanted to contact the prison and have the prisoners sleep here and we'd stay at the jail.

 

[jobe05]

YOU TOO NW????????

I was so excited with the nights now getting in the low 30's.............

I can now put the fan back in the window!

I like a cold bedroom (see your breath cold). needless to say we have a dual control heating blanket for my wife.

When I was a kid in upstate NY I slept in a tent for 3 years during the winter months........ I loved it.

 

[Wade E]

My house is old and insulation is scarce. My next mission next year!!!!! We go through about a tank of oil every 2 months in the winter which is a 330 gallon tank. Thats keeping the heat at 62 during the day and 56 at night. It hurts!

 

[rgecaprock]

I grew up in W.va winters. coal furnace, until the 70's and frost on the inside of the windows. We used to keep food on our windowsills in the bedrooms. Milk, etc. and it stayed ice cold. It was see your breath cold and then some. Had lineoleum floors..Ice cold to the feet. By morning the coals had died down and it was icy getting ready for school. We used to have to take turns shoveling in lumps of coal and shaking out the "clinkers" which came in handy when everyone else in town who had gas furnaces needed our ashes to get their cars unstuck from the ice and snow. They would always be knocking on out door for coal ashes!!! Great Times


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