Today is a chilly damp day.
It has been raining since last night. The thermostat I have outside reads 43 degrees. It is chilly and kind of miserable. It is also Saturday, and I want to enjoy my day, plus I have a lot of things I have to get done around the house. One of the things I have to do is write about Heating and Cooling. I have had a side hustle of freelance writing for quite a number of years, and for about the last five or six years I have written solely for one person who writes 95% of his articles about HVAC. There is really not that much to say about air conditioning and furnaces, but somehow I managed to do it every week. Anyway, I also have to do about a thousand pounds of laundry, and I have to clean the house, and I have a corned beef that I want to cook because I was not able to cook it on Saint Patrick’s Day. All of this, but all I really want to do is hang out in front of my fireplace. I do not have the heater running. I do not even have a portable heater plugged in because I took the portable heater to my office. But nonetheless, I do have a fireplace that can be a sort of heater on a damp day like today. I realize that fireplaces are not an efficient source of heating, but even so I am enjoying sitting in front of my fireplace today. It is providing just enough heating for me.