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12412. Macnas - 12/1/2004 6:18:44 PM 63degF is about 17 or so deg.c. Comfort level is at around 21 deg.c (69 or 70 deg.F), so either put on a wolly jumper or turn the damn heating on! 12413. iiibbb - 12/1/2004 6:23:30 PM This should get everyone in the spririt
The dance at the end is quite interesting. 12414. alistairconnor - 12/1/2004 6:24:17 PM There's an icy breeze that blows directly into my shower.
Lauging -- not for the visual image (ok, not only!) but those Pacific Rim old wooden houses... lived in a few... unheatable.
12415. thoughtful - 12/1/2004 6:31:54 PM I remember when we stayed in la jolla in january. we froze our butts off! we were never so cold! Here we were right on the beach with the wind blasting off the ocean in a room where they didn't even attempt to cover the air conditioner! (First thing we did in our room was block off that puppy with the spare blanket. Much better.) The halls were all just covered walkways open to the weather which only seemed to aggravate the wind. We had to stop in the lobby and there it was 40 degrees and they had the front and back doors wide open! Mind you this was during the energy crisis in so cal a couple of years ago. We were so appalled that we felt so cal deserved the high energy prices if they were going to be so foolishly wasteful of what they got. I mean it was the middle of jan and they still had the xmas lights on in town. ridiculous.
We couldn't wait to get back to new england to warm up!!'
Well, I don't want to overstate the case. We did go hot tubbing in the moonlight which was absolutely incredible...until we got out of the tub, soaking wet and froze all the way back to the room. And during the day it warmed up very nicely, especially inland once we got away from that ocean breeze...more like a gale actually. 12416. PelleNilsson - 12/1/2004 6:34:32 PM We once stayed in an English B&B where we got hot water bottles to take to bed. And we needed them. 12417. alistairconnor - 12/1/2004 6:42:34 PM Ahhh my cold-water flat in Greenwich with the sash windows and the wind from Siberia... and the mad Polish countess upstairs... 12418. Ms. No - 12/1/2004 6:49:04 PM Dang, AC, I want to come live with you it always sounds interesting! 12419. Ms. No - 12/1/2004 6:51:06 PM Mac,
Yeah, I've been wearing sweaters around the house and I do wear my wooly-booger socks to bed, but I think I can hold off on using the heat another month if I cover my windows to keep the draughts out. I have a LOT of windows.
Mostly if I'm not bustling around I just make my dog lay on my feet and that seems to do the trick. 12420. Ms. No - 12/1/2004 6:56:31 PM Thoughtful,
Yes, the winds here can be freaky. The past few days we've had a chill wind blowing, but right around Christmas we'll probably get the Santa Anas which are warm and bring the smell of barnyards with them. Christmas day will probably be a sweltering 70F. When I flew to Texas last week, however, it was colder in LA than Dallas by nearly 20 degrees. 12421. alistairconnor - 12/1/2004 6:56:50 PM Ah but that was fifteen years ago.
I'm not kidding about the mad Polish countess.
Currently we get about 17 degrees in the living room - main problem is draughts through the gaps in the floorboards. 12422. Ms. No - 12/1/2004 6:57:24 PM Time to lay some hay under the house. 12423. Ms. No - 12/1/2004 6:58:28 PM I just checked the weather forcast for Burbank this next week and I think I'll have to go get some insulation for the windows tonight rather than waiting to do it this weekend.
It would also help if I'd take this huge load of stuff to the Salvation Army so that I could lay my rugs down. 12424. alistairconnor - 12/1/2004 7:22:38 PM We thought keeping the old floorboards would be cute and folksy. True up to a point.
Now we're stuck : there's quite a slope on the living room floor. If we change the flooring, we'll have to keep the slope, otherwise the staircase will look really odd, most of the first step will be buried. 12425. Jenerator - 12/1/2004 7:25:11 PM Judith,
Love the pins! Especially the green and blue ones and the pink ones. Very pretty. 12426. Ms. No - 12/1/2004 7:51:09 PM AC,
Isn't there some environmentally and people-friendly insulating foam that could be sprayed into the cracks? I suppose you could pull up the floor, lay insulation and then put the floor back down but that's a lot of work.
What about eliminating where the draught is getting under the house to begin with? 12428. judithathome - 12/1/2004 8:12:01 PM 
12429. judithathome - 12/1/2004 8:14:30 PM That's my sweet little dog named Klaus...he's 14 this year at Christmas time. 12430. SnowOwl - 12/1/2004 8:19:09 PM One thing I've noticed when travelling is that people in countries overseas keep their houses at a much higher temperature than is the norm here. When we were in Sweden, even in mid-winter, I had to keep nipping outside to cool off.
There was a survey done quite recently which concluded that NZers have the temperature inside their houses too low for health.
I think it's because the early settlers here thought they had arrived in a tropical paradise and so built accordingly. 12431. Magoseph - 12/1/2004 8:22:34 PM Hello, Klaus. Judsie, what happened to your post # 1247? I saw it, but then it was gone.
iiibbb, your link didn't take. 12432. Jenerator - 12/1/2004 8:24:30 PM Klaus is soooo cute!
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