heat wave!

I never thought I'd be so excited about rain. I mean, it's not like I'm a dry land farmer waiting to see if my years' crops will survive. It's not like I live in a desert, we make jokes here about "it's a rainforest, what do you expect?" It rains double, sometimes triple digits in southeast Alaska, I never thought I'd be so excited about rain. It takes temperatures in the mid 30's at least for rain to happen, it's a heat wave! I was sans long underwear for the first time in (what?) 2 months! The woodstove is able to keep the oil stove from clicking on and the floor is warm (ish).

Yesterday, at the store, the guy that fixed my hot water pipe back in September was looking haggard. He's one of those incredibly rare plumbers that will charge you less than you expect and do more than you asked. He has been crawling around under houses repairing frozen burst pipes for days. I'm almost glad the insulation under my floors is so scanty, it kept my pipes in tact.