Twenty below

(1991 January's end)

We are getting very tired of this cold weather, every night with 20 below or so. Today my beautician who lives on a farm told of her living room which had a couple of walls covered with frost. The front door of the beauty parlor is open and shut all the time and this makes the floor cold and our feet freezing. The best spot in the house is at my desk near a radiator; also on davenport under an afghan. ... I wish you were all here and we'd play Spades. Near the fire.