[yorkietalkjilly]

Oh, bless your heart! Hate being cold but almost anything is better than stifling heat, as we get in Dallas when our A-C system is on the fritz. And going stark-naked is just frowned upon by polite society, whereas with cold, at least you can layer up and wrap up and help yourself some little bit. Hope you have a fireplace!

I say stifling heat it worse......until I'm cold, then that's worse. Thankfully, my central heat has never gone out but then down here we don't get the winter weather and bitter, bitter cold you guys do so our heating systems coast a good deal of the time during fall and winter, whereas yours probably work overtime. Can't imagine the utter cold you all deal with all too ofen. Brrrr. I sure feel for you, sitting here 3 mil. northest of Dallas, Texas city limits, legs under a heated throw with the Duraflame heater turned to 80 and central heat back-up and it's not even below freezing or anything!

I imagine a noble, beautiful, big BRT cuddling up next to you and a hot-bodied little Yorkie curled in your lap helps for a while but nothing keeps your nose warm. My nose gets cold quickly, and being a blonde, turns a lovely shade of red when I'm cold! Than, too, it tends to drip sometimes when I'm very cold. Lovely, right? Do you get that, too?

Anyway, the misery of extremes of weather is pretty awful. Can't imagine how our ancesters made it through these kinds of things back in the days before furnaces, fans, central heat/air, wonderful electric throw, blankets, etc. Those folks were hardy or they didn't make it, or worse, lived in spite of their miserable weather! Thankfully, I was born in modern times or I would have quickly turned into a shrew, as I cherish my comforts. I'm a total prisoner of now and quick to howl whenever my room temp varies much out of the 70's F range. So I surely do commiserate with you and yours until you can get toasty again.