-4° overnight.

Strong, icy winds making it feel colder! It's been so cold that we've used 5 weeks worth of oil in just under 2 weeks. Day after day slipping below zero at night and often single digits during the day uses a LOT of oil. We've closed off 2 entire sections of our house and put them down to 45° to keep any pipes from bursting and dropped the garage down to 25°.

We haven't had such extended cold for years now so didn't bother to get a bunch of oak logs to cut up for firewood Since we haven't needed it. We used the last of the wood we'd kept for extremely cold nights to take the curse off the cold last week.

Next, we'll probably have an early, very warm spring to continue the crazy.