worsening temps

 Someone local posted the next four days of temps on Facebook... came from one of the TV stations weatherpersons. By Monday the morning temperatures will have gotten steadily worse so that it will be 

-18F . Yuck... super yuck.

We have been running two small humidifiers upstairs during the day and a large pot of water on the stove downstairs which has to be refilled several times a day.

That means we are warmer and the house is less dry... definitely an improvement.

The Kansas City Star ( newspaper) printed recipes today. One was for a maple walnut pie. I had all the ingredients except for the walnuts but I did have pecans. So another house warmer was baking the pie! It was good... different from the traditional pecan pie and nowhere near as sweet ... a good thing. The only sweetner was maple syrup ( the real stuff).

The birds are glad we are keeping up with the bird food... they come and go all day. We get titmouses to blue jays.... and squirrels.  The cats watch from the kitchen window.

More snow is predicted. BTW our small city doesn't plow residential streets until 2 inches of snow has fallen...