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Mon, Sep 10, 2007

Heating Season

Posted at 4:44 pm MDT to Weather

This morning when I got up it was 60 degrees F in the house and about 40 outdoors. It was cold and rainy until well after noon, tough it is sunny (but still chilly) now. Today is the first day since the spring that I have had the HVAC system in Heat mode all day.

I got up in the middle of the night to put on warmer pajamas and jack up the thermostat on my waterbed, and I think I need to put the bed into its winter configuration: shake the feathers in the comforter back up to the top, add a blanket, check the waterbed heater...

If the heater is dead (the thermostat works, but I'm not sure about the heater coil), it may be nature's way of telling me I should move my thoughts about getting a new bed higher on the priority list. I would have to drain the waterbed most of the way in order to install a new heater, and the mattress is more than 25 years old and not likely to survive the process.

Today I'm going to make macaroni and cheese for supper. It's good cold weather food, and Food Network had a Mac and Cheese challenge yesterday, which put me in the mood. The winner of the challenge (and $10,000) was a chef from a Denver restaurant named "Mizuna" (which is a Japanese salad green we sell at the farmers' market). His winning specialty, from the menu at his restaurant, was lobster macaroni and cheese. Looked delicious.

Let's see...according to the on-line yellow pages Mizuna is at 225 E 7th Ave Denver, CO 80203-3504. So it's right downtown, where I hardly ever go. Oh, well, something to keep in mind for the next time I need to go downtown.

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