Cold Weather & Old Bones; I'm Beginning to Understand

[John K Jordan]

With the farm I'm outside for a good part of the day, 95-deg or 5-deg. Just like me, the animals wake up hungry so I'm usually feeding and watering when it gets light. Fortunately, with animal care you are always moving - if I stopped to rest I'd be cold to the bones.

BTW, watering is especially interesting in freezing weather, especially where I don't have electric heaters. Using water hoses takes special care also - drain after ever use or, my favorite method, blow the water out with compressed air.

You get acclimated after a while; to an extent a big part of comfort is the relative temperature. I keep the shop near the barn at 60-65 in the winter. 60 would freeze me out in the summer but it sure feels toasty in the winter! If I kept my house as hot as some I've been in I'm not sure I could stand going out. Or coming back in.

I found that if I keep my ears, fingers and toes warm the rest of me doesn't mind the cold much. So earmuffs, gloves and boots, hat/scarf if windy, thermal layer with jeans & jacket - I can stay out all day. Fortunately it doesn't often get teeth-cracking cold in TN but we did have 20-28 temps the last few nights. But if it gets down close to zero (F) I get out the Carhart insulated coveralls!

JKJ

[Jim Becker]

I deal with it via a single word: UnderArmour.

[Gordon Eyre]

Precisely why I moved to St. George, Utah when I retired. Rarely snows and mild daytime temperatures with sun almost every day. I was born and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah where it snows a lot and and they have temperature inversions every winter.

[Rod Sheridan]

I have been called worse.....

And will be again the next time we meet!

I just went out to feed the birds and knock the snow off the feeder.

Apparently the squirrel was hungry.........Regards, Rod.

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[Larry Browning]

Try not to get old.

Hmmm, that seems a bit extreme. I think I will take my chances at getting cold, considering the alternative to getting old.

[Jim Laumann]

Spend time by the wood stove - there is just something about that type of heat that can't be beat....

[Brian Brown]

I like walking in the winter, especially when it's cold enough that the snow "squeaks" as you walk on it.

You are a sick Individual Rod!

[Ken Fitzgerald]

Hmmm, that seems a bit extreme. I think I will take my chances at getting cold, considering the alternative to getting old.

The only alternative I can think of to getting results in one's body becoming cold IMO.

I'll suffer for a while longer, thank you!

[Bruce Wrenn]

You realize that by fleeing to Aruba you've going to be labeled a snowbird?

That little yellow bird in the upper corner of his posts is a snow bird.

[Bill Neely]

I'm 74 and feel the cold more than when I was young, I wear a fleece vest most of the time because my back is sensitive to the cold. The weather here is wet/damp and chill about 6 months of the year, when I'm out walking it feels like the cold is painted on my face and hands.

My daughter lives in Colorado Springs and I find the wintertime there much easier to deal with, they get a lot more light too. I often wished I had chosen another place to live after I retired from the service.

[Curt Harms]

Hmmm, that seems a bit extreme. I think I will take my chances at getting cold, considering the alternative to getting old.

I was having the same thought, Larry. I'm spending a couple weeks in Scottsdale, AZ and it's not too shabby this time of year. The summers on the other hand .........