Preparing for Winter

Since we have been living in the Caribbean for a number of years, where we had three seasons, as Ramon liked to say:  last summer, this summer, and next summer (!),

(where by the way, our little island of Curacao was recently hit hard by Tomas)

we are preparing ourselves for winter!  Our latitude here is about equal to middle Florida, but our elevation is about 4720 and it's going to be cold!  Right now, the days are fairly nice, but the nights are getting cold (especially for people who haven't had winter in YEARS!)   (By the way, since our elevation is higher than Kathmandu, our temperature will be a little cooler than shown on the weather widget here.)

Houses are not heated, but we have this gas heater. 

It's not very attractive, poor thing,

but boy am I impressed (and relieved) at how well it works!!!  I was a little skeptical at how it could possibly keep us warm, but it really, really works!  It has three speeds:  low, with just one section burning; medium, with two sections burning; and high, with all three sections burning:

Yeah for this new love in our lives!

Another new love is this nice little heater we keep in the bathroom:

I couldn't live without it!

Here is our water heater:

It's gas powered (also has batteries) and happily works well!

We did have to learn its little idiosyncrisies first though!

We had to buy new coats

and new sweaters



and these curtains (which are really blankets, which Ramon suggested and which I read online can be used as curtains when you have single-paned windows) and they really do keep the bedroom warmer!

Here are the blankets we bought.  They are very nice, heavy, and warm Korean blankets.

Well, I shall say bye for now and go wrap myself up in one (or three) of my new sweaters and cozy up with this new little toy, my electric water bottle!  It's amazing and I'm so happy I found it (could not find a heating pad).  Don't know why it needs a transformer, as it's instructions were either Korean or Chinese.

  Have a nice day!