It is mid-September, and the weather is holding tploy for this time of year.

One day it is seventy and sunny and the next day it is fifty and rainy.

The evenings are cold and damp, and there is a breeze blowing most of the time. My husband is still in the currency-saving mode, and he is being actually stingy with the heat. Every one of us have a small wood stove in the residing room, which he is grudgingly burning when he feels it is cold. I don’t have the tolerance for the cold that he has. I sit in the house with a blazer on. My hands are cold and it is all I can do to suppress the shivers. For the last couple weeks, I have been plagued with muscle spasms. They are from head to toe and I never know when they are going to hit. I can lay down and our stomach or ribs will cramp. Even if I am walking, our legs and feet will seize and the cramping will start. It is painful and I can’t find anything that will help them. Last week, I told our husband that if he would just turn on the oil furnace and put some heat in the house, I may not be suffering so badly. He wasn’t excited with me, however he went downstairs and worked on the oil furnace. He said he had to have it cleaned and worked on before he could turn it on. My husband is retired, and he still tells me that he doesn’t have time. I gave him the choice of turning the oil furnace on, or I was moving in with our daughter for a few weeks. I had heat that evening.

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