Winter statistics

Susquehanna River on a cold, cold day.

The white is ice-covered river. The blue is a narrow unfrozen channel of running water.

One warmer day opened this channel and piled up chunks of ice.

​Winter statistics at minus 3 degrees

Date: Saturday, January 6, 2018

Morning temperature: Minus 3 degrees

With wind chill: Minus 15

My outdoor clothing: Heavy cotton cami, long underwear, knee socks, heavy wool socks, jeans, sweater, padded jacket with hood, wool scarf, heavy mittens, knee-high boots

Jazzy’s outdoor clothing: Purple dog sweater, plaid dog coat, long belly hair and amazing toe tufts

Time it took to dress us both: 15 minutes

Bird food: 2 scoops of dried corn, 2 scoops of wild bird seed, 2 scoops of sunflower seeds, 1 suet block, 2 apples that froze in the garage
 
Cost of bird food: 50 lbs of dried corn from local feed mill, $6.75; 25 lbs of black sunflower seeds, $14.75 from feed mill; 40 lbs of premium bird seed, $19.20 from feed mill; suet blocks, $.89/each from Ollie’s

Time it took to feed birds: 3 minutes

Time it took for birds to arrive and begin eating: 2 minutes!

Time it took Jazzy to remember why we were outside: 3 more minutes

Total time outside at minus 3 degrees: 8 minutes

​Time it took to undress us both: 4 minutes