Cold

Anyone want to take a guess what this is?




Answer coming...





So, all of our windows except one are new and double-paned. The giant window in our dining room, alas, is single-paned. I love that window because it lets in so much light and allows me to grow herbs and (sometimes) tomatoes in the dining room.

However, some wintry mornings, it looks like this:
That's a thin layer of ice coating the INSIDE of the window. I could scrape ice shavings off with my fingernails.

When we open the windows in the Spring and the Summer, they lose their seals with the window panes. Every Winter, Jason pushes all the windows closed on the top and bottom and locks them to keep the majority of the cold air out. Well, the past couple of days have been pretty cold, and we haven't sealed up all the windows yet. According to our thermometer, this morning it was 15 degrees outside...

...and 49 degrees in the living room.*

Yeah, I think it's time to seal those windows.

The good news is, by the time I left for work, the sun beating on the window had melted the ice. Tiny was having a good time chasing the rivulets of water.

*We don't really use the furnace unless we happen to be home for the majority of a very cold weekend. There are multiple reasons. 1) The furnace is extremely inefficient and expensive. 2) If we turn on the furnace when we get home from work, the apartment will JUST be starting to kind of get warmish right as we're going to bed. 3) Even when the furnace is on the heat feels really nice when you stand right in front of the vent, but when you move more than 3 or 4 feet away from a vent, the cold takes over. Space heaters are our friends.