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cold weather working is possible
Monday, December 22 2008
Yesterday for Chaunnukah I'd given Gretchen a five quart slow cooker (actually, it was a genuine Crock PotTM, which is to slow cookers as XeroxTM is to copy machines). Today I came back from errands in town to find the house smelling of chili, one of my favorite foods. I'd bought another Chaunnukah present, another foam toilet seat, this one for the first floor's half bathroom.
This evening despite the darkness and cold (16 degrees Fahrenheit), I did some more work on my greenhouse, cutting large triangles from a sheet of 3/8 inch plywood and using these to close in the space between the rectangle of the greenhouse and the slope of the roof. I've noticed that it's possible to work for hours at a time in such cold weather. The important thing is to keep moving (which work forces you to do) and to keep your fingers warm (something work causes you to forget to do). Periodically I'd find my fingers becoming painful and unresponsive and I'd have to hold them over a lightbulb to restore them to full functionality. It would be easy for a Jewish mother to lean in and scold that I should be wearing gloves, but the truth of the matter is that it's not easy to reach into a box of screws to grab one and then hold it steady for your screw gun when your fingers are covered with a layer of cloth.
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