Working in the Home Office
How is winter your way?
You’ve heard of schools closing when there is a winter storm in progress? Or super cold temperatures? That happens several times a winter here in this prairie part of Canada. Today it’s happening to me.
Yesterday I was going to drive the car to work because I had extra bags that would be too heavy to carry if I walked. The car would not start. It was bitterly, bitingly cold! I took time however, to find the electrical cords and plug my car in. Then I went inside to decide what to do next.
I had been printing a gift cookbook at the office all day Saturday. I wasn’t finished, but I did have a box full of pages that needed to be cut apart and collated for binding. The cutting was all done in about 45 minutes. I decided to stay home until noon and answer email so I could try again in the afternoon and catch up on the printing, for which I had planned to give up my morning.
The car wouldn’t start after lunch either, so I put on an extra large pair of blue jeans over my slacks and bundled up with layers of socks, and tops and my old down-filled coat with the jumbo hood. I put my backpack on my back, and carried a lightweight bag on my hand (with a box for bringing back the extra pages I wanted to print), then I headed out to the office - walking.
Whoa, if that half hour walk isn’t exercise, I don’t know what is! The last two blocks my nose was smarting against the cool flow of air from the north, but the rest of me was sweating from all my layers. It took a few minutes to get undone in my office, but then I plunged to work with the printing. I finished the big project and started a smaller one. At 5 pm Priscilla from the mission office offered to give me a ride home. How nice.
This morning the temperatures are about -34 Celsius. (That’s -29.2 Fahrenheit). About mid-afternoon it will warm up to -23C (or -9.4F)
So I’ve decided that I could just as easily work from home today! Besides, there’s an inspector coming at 4:30 to check my furnace and water heater, so I’d have to hurry home at 4 if I tried walking. I’ll make the effort tomorrow.
The general forecast is for the temperatures to climb a bit the rest of this week, and next week go to the -8 to -9 C range. That should be a great improvement!