The Wave

Usually by now our heat has been on for a week, and has spent most of that time making up for the previous couple of weeks, trying to warm up the walls of the house so that it can, finally, start keeping us warm.

But we've been fortunate this past week, and New England has experienced a warm spell that's allowed us to delay the heating bills, and left us with a house that's no so cold.

Now, I should explain to my California friends and family that a warm spell in New England in November means overnight lows above freezing and daytime highs above 50, so don't think we're sweltering here. Although one day got up to nearly 70.

So it was really more of a heat wave.

Well, the wave has crested, crashed on the shore, and withdrawn to sea, just to abuse that metaphor completely, and it's now decidedly chilly, so I'll be bringing up the heat between today and tomorrow.

But this year, we won't be sitting around shivering, waiting for the house to warm up. It's already reasonably comfortable, and the heater only needs to maintain that temperature to keep our teeth from chattering.

For the time being. After all, it's not winter yet.