"Winter Heat Wave"

So I like to say that we get 3 seasons here in Paso Robles. We get the beautiful spring where the hills look like Ireland (well, what I would think Ireland looks like since I don't have first hand experience - hint for Brett). We get the summer where we are in the high 90's and mid 100's (still not used to it, much rather prefer the beach weather - Brett doesn't need a hint here... the summers kill my beach boy!) And in the fall, the leaves change colors and actually fall off the trees (unlike southern california). And our winter is usually 50's-60's in the day and 20's-30's in the nights. We wrap our pipes and actually had them freeze two winters ago! (My Grandma laughed and said I should know better how to keep them from freezing... to which I replied "but this is California, it shouldn't freeze"! Ha ha! She gave me some good advice and we haven't had a frozen pipe since!

So, ok, on to my story. I was on the phone with my cousin on Friday. She lives in Illinois (this has to do with the story!) We were talking and talking and I hear her dog "Tanner" (now some of you know who it was!) barking and barking, so my cousin says can you hold on a minute. Then I hear her laughing and she comes back on the phone and says Tanner has to go out but the door is frozen shut! Then she tells me about how the kids haven't had school the last two days because it has been too cold. (She said one morning is what -16)!

Boy, my blood has really thinned because I don't think I could handle that kind of temperature. I think my fillings would freeze and give me frost-bite on my tonge! So poor Tanner, the kids even tried the door! Last I knew Amy was putting a space heater on the door to try and warm it loose!

Oh, and all this while I am sitting in my house during a "winter heat wave" with the windows open to actually warm the house to 71 degrees! Sometimes I really miss the midwest and want to move back... but I don't know if I could do it (and especially not my beach boy!)