My hands are still numb from the freezing swim I did earlier this week.
- I don’t know the exact temp of the water, but it is well below 50F and I stayed in it for about 12 minutes this time, which was a bit too long for water as freezing as that.
I am trying to heat up under a thick wool blanket but it is taking a long time to do so. I suppose we have another month or so of genuinely freezing days before we start to see any reprieve. I am lucky to have a good working zoned HVAC gas furnace so that I can just keep one room hot if I want and save money on our heating costs. Last year I didn’t have this system and I was spending so much money trying to heat up the whole flat when I was only using one or two rooms in the locale. But now, with this HVAC heating technology that I had installed by the heating specialist, I can just heat up one room that I am using for the morning, and keep the rest of the beach house rather cool. The weather will soon heat up though and we will be using the air conditioning system once again to keep us all cool while it is sweltering hot outside. My friend and I should have a month or two though where we won’t need to use any air, and we can save a bit of currency on our power bills for that time. But in the summer our mini split cooling system runs almost nonstop to keep us cool.