January 19

1/19/08: Saturday, 8:00 AM. -20 on the mercury thermometer on the deck, -11 on the digital on the house. Take your pick, both darned cold. The mercury thermometer is probably in a more accurate location. This is the coldest I have seen it in seven winters in Bayfield, but hardly a record. I have been keeping a fire going in the fire place, but its heat is mostly psychological, except in the evening when one is sedentary and its warmth is more discernible. It will be a pretty day if frigid.