This morning the skies transition from the deep cold, up through the buffer of freezing rain and into above freezing temperatures. Fast I hope.
Because. Yes. Freezing rain. Ice falling from the sky. My arch enemy. It looks like this from inside the house. Where I am often not. Frozen.
The windows are iced up. Freezing rain is mean. Ice is gathering on everything. Ice can get heavy. When it piles up on branches and power lines it can bring them crashing down.
But off into the freezing rain I went. For my sins.
By the time I got back inside my jacket was covered in freezing rain and solid! But it is not too cold – which is nice!
Here is your Sustainable Sunday Letter.
We are talking about the underclothes that our grandmothers wore, and how they looked after them. Hand washing. I still hand wash my woolens and underclothes. Drying them flat on towels.
Good morning!
It is lightening outside – maybe the icy rain is over for the moment. Let’s hope so.
And if it does start again (the icy rain) I will try and film it for you – for TKG TAKE TEN. This evening.
Until then – we are all staying under cover.
Celi
The Kitchen's Garden 
19 responses to “The Penance of Freezing Rain”
It’s gone from -3ºC on Saturday to 10ºC today. I turned the heating off last night because it got too warm!
It moves so fast. These temp changes. At least now you can save money on heating. I HATE spending money to stay warm.
3 seasons in a week!
Season number three is so welcome. Hopefully we get it soon. We are sitting at freezing point until the middle of tonight when it rises into rain. But so far the ice has not been too much.
We’ve got 50mph wind replacing the cold, but there’s sunshine forecast later in the week…
Ach. Wind!
I have experienced one ice storm in my entire life. It took out two trees, one that blocked the driveway so that we could not get out of the garage. No frozen over windows though. I admire you for finding a small positive in all this…a solidly frozen jacket, but “not too cold”! That’s looking on the bright side for sure 🙂
Compared to what we just went through it is surprisingly warm! Just a couple more degrees and this ice will be rain. The wind has suddenly dropped off so I am waiting to see what happens next.
Ugh. I hate freezing rain…especially driving in it. I’d much rather have snow.
Windy here but no rain of any kind – yet. We did have the furnace quit yesterday, so space heaters and mostly cold inside and making sure the pipes don’t freeze. Never know when you’re going to have an unexpected “adventure”.
We escaped it here. But, tonight we get a taste of everything in a wintry mix.
Usually we say it’s easier to keep warm than cool. But this weather is not usual.
Your frozen window panes look really awful. I checked the weather forecast for here and it looked like we were going to get some of your freezing rain. But looking again just now it seems that it will be just garden variety rain (although quite a bit) but the temperature is 40 and only going down into 33 or so overnight. But they are putting out stuff on the streets right now. Maybe the city people know something that I don’t know or it could be “just in case”. Hope your rain stays just rain for you. It’s hard to plan when things are so changeable.
It is now rain on ice. The roads are impassable. Let’s hope the temps rise fast!
They say that some things can be beautiful and treacherous at the same time and I believe freezing rain is one of them. Or just ice in general.. except in one’s cocktail. 🙂 That mind boggling cold reminds me of a very funny saying…It’s colder than a witch’s titty in a brass brassiere. 🙂 I guess reading the posts about grandmother’s undergarments and freezing rain may have conjured that up.
By the way, your grandmother sounded like a tyrant…who grabs children by their collars and kicks them? And a contradiction in personality…how could such an extremely frugal person throw their china teacup onto the hearth when I’m sure such things were quite dear back then..not cheap nor mass produced. Maybe she had a huge stash of them somewhere. LOL! You must have been terrified of her…
We were – even my mother was still terrified of her. We were brought up strictly catholic – they hung embroidered words on their walls reading ‘spare record and spoil the child’. I think there were many more kids than us who were hit by mothers and grandmothers..
That’s really sad…my husband was also brought up Catholic and after I met his family, I didn’t want anything to do with organized religion. I can’t think of anything worse than hitting a child or animal. But that’s an offense not just reserved for strict Catholics..unfortunately. 😦
I hope granny wore a nice muslin chemise under her woollen combinations – I can’t bear wool next to my bare torso. Besides, so much easier to wash muslin than wool. I’d pay hard cash for some of your cold right now to mitigate the 100°F in the shade…
I am sure she did/ her skin was very sensitive.. When we were kids we wore a cotton singlet under the woolen one. The woolen one was not washed as often.