Day 231 Still cold out there.

It's still cold out up here.  Lots of snow over in Seattle and North, East and South of there.  We had a bit more but no where near what they have had.  All the schools are closed and Seattle is just about shut down.  They are just not prepared for this kind of weather.  Once the roads are iced, they are staying that way as there isn't enough sunshine to melt anything and they don't have the snow plows to get rid of it.  They don't think we will even hit 32 degrees till some time next week.  It's the longest cold spell in well over 20 years.

We have two heaters running all the time and I even fired up our diesel heater yesterday as Zephyr needed a good temperature boost.  Throw blankets and sweaters are the wardrobe of the day--or week for that matter.

I did the laundry yesterday as we had gotten down to our last clean clothes.  Took a magazine and a book along to while away the couple of hours it takes.  As is the norm, someone else was doing theirs so I had to wait a bit to get to the washers.  Back to Zephyr by early afternoon.  With all the roads frozen over, it's not like we are going anywhere.

I tried to engage the DuoGen wind generator as we have been having winds in the 20 knot range but it is frozen in the down position and won't go up the tube to it's tallest height.  I'm not sure where it is frozen in the tube, but with luck, it might get warm enough to allow me to get it working.  

While this storm continues, we just sit snuggled in and wait for warmer weather.  We've got plenty of food to get us through this cold spell.