It’s relative. Today @ 7AM it was 15 outside and 50 degrees inside. Sun entered the windshield, I pulled the insufficient covers back over my head. The furnace ran all night never getting warm enough to shut off. But I was inside protected.
OK to Les’ comment about riding in Spokane yesterday in day time temps that were the lows here. Les, I used to do that when I worked and it was my day off. Your lifestyle during retirement will offer you choices, one could be I don’t want to live in the cold, another is tomorrow the weather will be better.
The sun warmed up the van outside temp to 41. I drove back towards town to ride Bar M trails. During the drive the temp dropped below freezing. Today i am riding in the sunshine. Just a few bike rigs in the big parking lot. Monday and cold. I only shared the trails w/ a roving herd of grazing cows. Deadman’s Ridge is a nice challenging trail w/ lots of rock moves along w/ short climbs. I am connecting w/ my Industry Nine hub w/ its 3 degrees of engagement for tech moves as I can back pedal a small amount to put the pedal in the power position for a front end loft. Great wheel set.
I made scratch pancakes for breakfast using brown rice flour: gluten free. Added blueberries. I’m not gluten free, never intend to, it’s just that it was the package size I needed. Wheat flour is in 5# bags which is too much. Buckwheat was too grainy. I would have liked oat flour. Small pot is my hot water maker, it was a wedding gift to my parents back in 1948.
In Bend I finally bought a nut grinder that grinds the walnuts easier than my hand dicing. When I find a cup size container of buttermilk I buy it for the pancakes. Not many stores sell buttermilk in that size. Grinder eliminates the hand work, better to turn a crank.
I drove back to town for a shower, propane, groceries, vacuumed the red dirt from the carpet, established Chile Pepper to accept my mail, laminated the paper temp license tag, and found a bar to watch the Zags tonight.
Weather forecast is still sunny and warming a bit, still below freezing at night. No moisture to create freeze thaw mud.
Fruita OTE tagged me w/ their sticker. One too many.
Trail work on Wednesday.
I burn about a gallon of propane a day, that’s w/o running it during the day. I have both heater and furnace on now while sitting in parking lot outside Chile Pepper. Will burn too much fuel.
Good deal. Sounds like you finally got your furnace to run properly. Our refrigerator is working now too. Spent the weekend fishing at Porcupine Bay above Davenport, WA.