6° here at 6:00 this morning. 57° in the warmest part of the house. 39° in my bathroom (thank God for my heated toilet seat!).
People think my 170 year old farmhouse is cute. And it is. But it’s drafty and has no central heat and air. One pellet stove in my bedroom and a space heater in the bathroom I only turn on an hour or two before I shower.
StG
Coming back to this: If you’ve got any freezer space: peppers are really easy to freeze. You don’t need to blanche them; just slice them up (to save freezer space; the little poblanos you can freeze whole), pack them into freezer containers or freezer bags, and toss them in the freezer. You don’t need to use the whole container at once; you can break off as much as you need and put the rest (still frozen) back into the freezer.
If you haven’t any freezer space, you could try drying them: either in a dehydrator, or string them and hang them someplace.
(Weather forecast got it pretty close: 13ºF here last night.)
SE Wisconsin here. We started getting snow about a week ago. Every once in a while we’ll get snow this early, but it usually melts right away and goes back to feeling like fall for a few more weeks. At least in recent memory, it usually starts snowing towards the end of December, just when we start to wonder if we’ll have snow on Christmas. In fact, one of my thanksgiving traditions is to make sure the snow blower is in working order, that way I have a few weeks to fix it if there’s a problem.
This year, however, at least one of the ski hills has already opened for the season. I assume it’s mostly fake snow, but being under 20 degrees, it shouldn’t be an issue for them.
We didn’t get snow but our temperature dropped 30 degrees yesterday. A few weeks ago it was 95 degrees.
What was weird in central Ohio was that we got our first frost/hard freeze (November 1) on the same night as places much further south, all the way to Atlanta. Normally they’d be weeks behind us experiencing the first freeze in fall.
It got down in the lower teens here last night, following nearly 3 inches of snow. Thankfully I had brought in all my garden tubers (cannas, sunchokes and Amorphophallus) a couple days earlier.