Every winter almost always one of them will call her to tell her the temps will be down to around 8° C. (46.4° F.) at night. Even though she owns her own house in México City, her mother lives with us here too. They love their hometown, but every winter they are both very happy that we live in Cuernavaca, especially when it is freezing, or flooding, or other disasters are happening in Mexico City.

Here in Lerdo we hit an all-time low last night 17°F, -8°C.
Frozen pipes, so no water. In fact, it looks like the whole town is without water.

We've found one ruptured pipe in the bathroom. Thank goodness there's a cutoff valve in front of the break.
T thought I had left all this behind when I moved from Boston to Los Angeles.
I never dreamed I'd be fighting frozen pipes in México.

I'm sitting here bundled up in all my winter gear, and I'm still cold.
I think I'll go back to bed. Oh, I forgot. I woke up eary today because I was cold.
I brought in the dogs' water dish to thaw the ice, so they coulld have a drink before it froze again.

Let's hear it for climate change!
****************************************************************************************** Now, it is balmy February and the bitter cool of winter is behind us here in Cuernavaca, Morelos. This morning, Saturday, February 12th at 9 AM it was 19° C. (62° F.) outside temp. and 22° C. (71.6° F.) inside the unheated house.


Now, at 10:15 AM it is 19.6° C. (67.28° F.) outside, and 22.6° C. (72.68° F.) inside. The rest of you have our sympathy (but not much). It never freezes here, and I have never seen frost here.


I still turn our heater on the low setting in the mornings for our dogs. They like to lie next to the heater on their rugs. In the mornings, their eyes are clearly asking me, “Hey where's our heat?”. I don't own the dogs, they own themselves, but they are part of our family, so I turn the heater on low for them.


Rex