Hello Rob!

** On Tuesday 23.12.25 - 08:19, you wrote:

 RM> Yes, it was howling pretty good and I was just happy the
 RM> power didn't go out. 3 mornings I woke up and it was under
 RM> (43f) in the livingroom when I came out and it took hours
 RM> to get it up to something reasonable. As I think I've
 RM> mentioned, overnight I only run one baseboard heater and I
 RM> hide under my electric blanket until morning. Usually I
 RM> expect it to be about 15c (60f) by morning since the one
 RM> heater isn't enough on cold nights but it's a lot worse
 RM> when the wind gets howling.

Are those portable baseboard heaters? ..or are they the kind  
installed in wall along the floor.  I have the latter.

I keep a small oil-based heater operating under the table where  
I usually work with my computers.  The added heat at the table  
for my legs takes the edge off the cold air.  And.. if there is  
power interrruption, the heat from the device lasts muh longer  
than from the electric baseboards.

Maybe consider a medium-sized oil-based heater?

I recently bought a new larger one [stands about mid-thigh] to  
replace the much smaller one [which only stood about mid-calf]   
that I used under the table.

 RM> I put better windows in, but single glazed so I put
 RM> plastic on the inside of the window frames over the winter
 RM> now, and

My house has inexpense double sashless woodframe "cottage"  
windows. Most of them are in terrible shape since they were  
installed in 1972.   They are not that great in insulating from  
the cold or heat outside.


 RM> Oh, BTW.. Those Bucket Mouse traps we talked about
 RM> earlier.. With most of the snow gone I went to check out
 RM> the two that my sister put in her 2 cottages and there
 RM> were 3 mice in one and 4 in the other, so they are working
 RM> pretty well..   B)

7 mice is not necessarily a high haul.  They breed pretty fast.

But glad to hear that something works.

I stick to the traditional mouse trap, with a drop or two of  
mouse-attractant.

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