Our dear Cuties without enough heat, and enough cool too! I hope everyone can withstand all the extremes. We have heard in Texas the electricity can't keep up with the need!

Where we live in Colorado, the temps have dipped well below zero F (as low as 35 below in Eastern Colorado and Nebraska)n and up here in the mountains the warmest in the Summers in the high 80s. We don't have air conditioning, but it does cool off every evening. Someone asked what people do to stay warm in the winters. Because no system is totally reliable we have 3 different heating systems. We have electric heaters in all bedrooms. We have a gas fireplace in the living area that is on a thermostat so that keeps the heat even. We have a boiler and not a furnace. So oil heated pipes are contained within registers that put off plenty of heat. We used to have a fire burning stove, but that heat is not clean enough if anyone has asthma. If the electricity goes off the gas fireplace keeps us snuggly warm - as long as we move everyone into the living room! So.. we are snuggly warm even in the very cold. I think we are quite spoiled, and I feel badly for all of you who are suffering with cold AND hot! Warm hugs, Jan