Keeping Warm

It’s that time again. Bitter cold, near-zero windchills, frozen buckets. This year there are more buckets!

As I have mentioned before, our bedroom has no heating ducts. Both of the kids’ rooms have heat, but ours does not. We just have each other. : ) But even with all of the doors upstairs open, it makes for a chilly room! And with that nippy west wind whipping through, I swear my bedroom had a windchill this morning…

Even so, extracting my body from under the cozy covers was bad enough, but not nearly as difficult as convincing myself to step from the warm house to the freezing outdoors at 5:30 am… it took a bit of convincing.

The barn is pleasant. Of course, there is no wind, but the animals keep it warm with their body heat and their breath. And they are always happy to see me. So it makes it all worthwhile. And after a few minutes saying my good mornings, I am warm and have forgotten about the cold (until I have to step outside, break the ice on the 4 water buckets, fill them with icy cold water, and then carry them back to the barn without sloshing the water on my leg and soaking my pants). That kind of warming—from the inside out—really stays with you.

Happy Wednesday!

P.S. Today I am going to a chakras workshop— here is the link to an article about the seminar. Makes you want to come, doesn’t it!