You don't move to Wisconsin without a certain love and fascination with cold weather. However, it has officially moved into frigid today. The temperature overnight dipped below zero and we woke to a brisk -4°F this morning. With the weather this cold we opted to suspend our outdoor running since it isn't a lot of fun to have your eyelids freeze shut - and yes, I have had that happen before. The other upside of the really cold weather is that we are finding all the fun spots in our house where the insulation isn't as thick as you might like (for instance behind the kitchen cabinets which makes for nicely pre-chilled dishes). The temperature shift is all that more dramatic since it was in the mid-40's on Friday and Saturday allowing us to be outside in just sweatshirts. The warm-up did allow us to finally get rid of all the ice that had accumulated on our driveway and sidewalks from the earlier sleet storm.
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| Before - with Drew |
Our other big event for the weekend was becoming empty nesters again. Drew completed his student teaching and moved out - he moved a couple of blocks away to his great aunt/uncle's place (spreading the wealth among all his Milwaukee relatives). Saturday afternoon involved gathering his clothing and stuff together and then moving into his new digs. Fortunately, we did this on Saturday with the warm weather and not Sunday with the frigid temps. It is nice to have our place back all to ourselves but we'll certainly miss the sport's expertise that Drew provided. We can also finally get our guest bedroom cleaned up and ready for visitors again. Kathy and John came over from Madison to help Drew move. Kathy took everyone out to dinner at Sala da Pranzo. Afterwards we enjoyed a rousing game of Sheepshead which maintained its reputation as a confusing game. Kathy and John spent the night in our newly liberated guest room, which meant Sunday morning we headed to City Market for our cinnamon roll tradition. Due to the temperatures the vote was to drive instead of walk, which meant the cinnamon rolls weren't a calorie neutral event as usual - but they still were tasty. Sunday afternoon after everyone had headed home and due to the temperatures, we hibernated. I had purchased a new computer game which kept me busy and Jo caught up on some past due reading.
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| After Drew |
Monday for MLK day we spent the morning volunteering to help clean up at a free clinic at a local church. Jo spent the time cleaning their kitchen while I mopped the floors. Afterwards we treated ourselves to lunch at the California Pizza Kitchen. Then it was home for Jo to do write a few work emails and for me to finish the first volume of the series on Stalingrad that I got for Christmas.
You don't move to Wisconsin without a certain love and fascination with cold weather. However, it has officially moved into frigid today. The temperature overnight dipped below zero and we woke to a brisk -4°F this morning. With the weather this cold we opted to suspend our outdoor running since it isn't a lot of fun to have your eyelids freeze shut - and yes, I have had that happen before. The other upside of the really cold weather is that we are finding all the fun spots in our house where the insulation isn't as thick as you might like (for instance behind the kitchen cabinets which makes for nicely pre-chilled dishes). The temperature shift is all that more dramatic since it was in the mid-40's on Friday and Saturday allowing us to be outside in just sweatshirts. The warm-up did allow us to finally get rid of all the ice that had accumulated on our driveway and sidewalks from the earlier sleet storm.
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