Well it looks like we’re having a classic winter this year, which is unusual for NYC. It’s been cold and snowy since late December. I’ve been out shoveling almost every day the last week. I can’t remember the last time there’s been snow on the ground for a month or more. There’s even ice floes on the Hudson.
It got down to 5 degrees one night last week. This prompted a project of putting new weatherproofing in our garage and lower hallway at the door between the garage and the hall, and in the wizard room, a.k.a. the unheated closet under the stairs.
For some reason, though, the cold seems alot more tolerable when accompanied by snow. So all in all I’m doing pretty good this winter. We even took the kids ice skating this weekend.
The other thing we did this weekend was get back into the ongoing house painting project. We painted our main room downstairs, which our family room, guest room, office and studio. It was mainly cover damaged and dirty parts of the walls, and since it was the same color as before, we literally cut some corners by not doing any trim or edging, and not moving most of the furniture, but just going over the areas the needed it with a roller. Still it took a half a day and we used a whole gallon of paint. The long term plan is to remodel this space, since this is now the only part of the house left that has the original paint left from when we moved in. So this will definitely hold us over until that day comes, and we’ll be touching up the upstairs hall and stairway at some point later this winter.