If your carpet feels like Arctic tundra and your kitchen floor a glacier then it is too cold. If you feel like you are feeding your wood stove every ten minutes, it is too cold.
Note to self...remember kerosene lamps always stink. Coleman lanterns always hiss and candle light is a no-no for trying to read small print.

When it is colder outsside than the inside of your refrigerator you can leave the ice cream in the outside cabinet but bring in the soda or it'll freeze.
These things are good info if your last two living condition have been in Tropical or Sub-tropical locations.

PS. In Northwest woods it is good to come to town once in a while to keep from going NUTS!

A quote used much in the past: "If you are not part of the solution, then you are part of the problem"
The best of this notion is our choice to respond to this as a motivation for self evaluation and thought.
One asks themselves, "If I don't act then am I endorsing the problem by silent complicity?"
For most of us we solve the easy problems like what to wear, what to eat, to the complexity of marriage, Legal action, financial dealing or woes.
Real solid problems that effect us are our family, friends, our neighborhood, our community, our State and our Country. But because it is so big there is the feeling of being only one voice and the accompanying feeling; what could that one voice matter?
So a decision to act, to speak, to exercise a right, a freedom, a responsibility of citizenship is let go..no speech, no exercise of a right.
Tyrants fear free speech and depend on silence.
Silence is affirmation born of fear and shame.
Our silence makes us the problem.
Our Solution is our voice in our home, our work, our neighborhood all the way up to our government.
That is our strength, our history and how we will teach those who will follow us. teach those what it means to be freedom loving people.

The nourishing of Winter is coming and with it the ground work for a new beginning.
New Beginnings.
Each day a new beginning with only memories of previous days. Memories just fallen leaves of the past. These leaves that become the compost that feed the new growth of new beginnings.
Would it be fair to say that without memory each day we awake would be a new life?
Would it be fair to say that with each day as a new life we can really start over?
A new beginning without memory could mean we can live this day with compassion, acceptance, understanding and honesty.
What a truly wonderful beginning.
What a wonderful day we can have.
Have a blessed New Beginning on this new day!