My hands are still numb from the cold swim I did earlier today.
I don’t know the exact temp of the water but it is well below 51F and I stayed in it for about two hours today, which was a bit too long for water as cold as that.
I am trying to warm up under a thick wool blanket, but it is taking a long time to do so. I think my superb friend and I have another month or so of definitely cold afternoons before we start to see any reprieve. I am lucky to have a good working zoned heating and A/C heating plan so that I can just keep one room warm if I want and save money on our heating costs. Last year I didn’t have this plan and I was spending so much money trying to warm up the whole flat when I was only using one or two rooms in the locale. But now, with this heating and A/C heating technology that I had installed by the heating specialist, I can just heat up one room that I am using for the afternoon and keep the rest of the up-to-date home rather cool. The weather will soon warm up though, and my superb friend and I will be using the air conditioning plan once again to keep us all cool while it is sweltering hot outside. My buddy and I should have a month or so where we won’t need to use any air. Then we can save a bit of money on our power bills during that time, but in the summer our mini split air conditioning unit runs almost nonstop to keep us cool.