I am typing with one hand. Fingers on other hand are soaking in room temperature water.

[LuckyCharms]

Just made a first pass on the snow. It's filling back up as fast as I can shovel it.

Used the leaf blower to blow off the cars. Whenever I do that, my fingertips freeze immediately.

I've had enough of this shit. I'm selling the house and moving SOUTH.

Maybe from Southern NY to Northern PA.

I hope that's the right move.

[surfered]

1. You definitely won't like Greenland😁

[LuckyCharms]

5. Currently 31 degrees in Nuuk! 6 degrees here!

[WhiteTara]

2. if you used room temp water at my house

it would be cold!

[LuckyCharms]

8. I hear you!

Even at 68 degrees on the thermostat, 3 shirts on, and a cup of coffee, I'm sitting here with my teeth chattering!

[WhiteTara]

11. you are so brave. I haven't stepped one foot outside

Three years ago, I shut off our old, inefficient propane whole house heater. At minimum, we spent over $1200 a year to heat the house for four months. For some reason, I thought we could get a heat pump through the IRA from Biden era, but Sister Sarah ended the program the minute she got control of Arkansas, and so we are using space heaters. They work for the most part, but are also inefficient, but the highest bill has been $500, with it mostly being around $300, so we are saving a few hundred dollars every year. I'm almost finished insulating the windows and the temp is moving up exponentially, but I'm still tucking myself under the covers and napping a lot.

We're supposed to reach the low 40s next week, and I'm looking forward to that balmy weather.

[LuckyCharms]

12. Gas water heater, gas furnace, electric central air.

1,700 square foot home.

We are on a budget for our electric and gas. $222/month x 12 months = $2,664/year. But the thing is, we always blow the budget, even when our usage goes down via conserving energy, because the cost of the raw gas and electricity keeps rising.

So in addition to the $2,664, we have to pay a pretty large lump sum at final budget payment #12. So then, they adjust the budget upward for the following year, and we keep blowing past that higher budget payment too. It's crazy.

[True Dough]

3. Soaking in room temperature water?

I give it no more than 2 minutes until you wet yourself, Lucky!

[LuckyCharms]

4. I already did!

What do I win? A prize? YAY!

[True Dough]

6. Your prize

begins with the letter Pee!

[LuckyCharms]

7. Great! I love pears!

[dem4decades]

9. do you use good insulated mittens?

[LuckyCharms]

10. Insulated gloves. I've tried everything...mittens gloves, different mittens...

For some reason my fingertips always become so painful that I have to go into the heated garage for awhile.

It's some weird thing that I have...and they don't even turn color, they just start stinging.

[dem4decades]

13. I find the mittens work better, i hear those inserts work.

I've never tried them, don't know if they help the finger tips.

[dlbell]

14. Sounds like early Reynard's Syndrome

With Reynard’s, your fingers don’t necessarily change colourin the early stages. It’s an autoimmune disease that can progress if you aren’t careful. You might want to get tested.

My niece has to wear heated gloves for the cold, even when getting anything out of a freezer in a store in the middle of the summer. Her fingers turn purple otherwise and it’s very painful.

[electric_blue68]

16. Ths idea popped up while I was doing something else....maybe it'll help....

Let's see; wool mittens, but underneath are cut wool glove fingers from fingertips to just above the knuckles to not restrict motion. Maybe use a finer knit of wool gloves.

It's a thought. Maybe it'll help. 🤞 👍

[Skittles]

15. just so you know

I am WAY south - and it is 8 degrees and lots of snow!