“Winter must be cold for those with no warm memories”

[bare_bear]

This morning, I woke to a freezing cold room and a dark alarm clock.  Hurray power outages.  This is somewhat hilarious because we’ve recently nearly run out of wood, which we burn to supplement the central heat.  Mom and I have been holding off burning the last bit in case there was a power outage and we suddenly found ourselves without heat or wood.

Last night, my Step-Dad decided to make a fire anyways, since we were planning to go out today to pick up some more.

So of course there was no power and little wood this morning in retaliation.  And it warmed up to -28 C. 

We got a fire going with what wood we had left over, and it was enough to get us through until the power came back on around 1 pm.  Yay heat!  And even more so, YAY COFFEE!  It was a fun day, actually.  We all just hung out, and Mom and I played a coup

Now we’ve got a load of wood all ready to go, and the Parents are off visiting some friends.  This leaves me with the place to myself for the night.  One blazing fire, Pride and Prejudice on the big TV, and me relaxing on the couch with a warm cuddly dog, and I am one happy Heather.

This day has reminded me of winters growing up out here.  At our old house, our main heat source was the wood stove, and I remember so many mornings being the first up and having to get the fire going.  Using the washroom sucked before the place warmed up.  While I've missed the wonderful warmth of a wood stove and living in the country in general, I haven't missed those mornings!  :D