As I mentioned before, it can get pretty cold in the house when I don't turn on the heat. I bought one of those oven thermometers with a probe for the grill, but discovered it works just fine to tell me what temperature it is in the house. One day a couple weeks ago it was 54 degrees Fahrenheit in my bedroom when I woke up - somehow knowing it's actually that cold doesn't make it any easier to get out of bed.
To combat the cold, Lucienne, my Dutch friend who lives in an older, colder place than I do here in Melbourne, told me she bought real draft animals. Whenever I hear that phrase, I think of big animals pulling things - like water buffalo, or cows, or the superbowl commercials that always make me cry:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTbLBL2P6YA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQB7QRyF4p4
But what she really means is a weighted version of this:
I just bought some toy snakes at IKEA (they even have rattles in the tails) to stop the wind coming in under the doors. She got proper ones with weights in them to keep them flat on the floor and up against the door. Modern life in Australia calls for a different kind of draft animal.
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