"Baby, Its Cold Outside."

[Edwin]

This is an interesting question and answer song that has been sung by a number of artists, and it is a song full of meaning with a catchy tune. Bing Crosby has done the song as well as Johnny Mercer and Margaret Whiting. Frank Sanatra did this song as well. The song was written by Frank Loesser and it was published in 1948. It was originally performed by Betty Garrett and Red Skelton in the film "Neptune's Daughter." Dean Martin also did this song as well, and it is performed a lot around Christmas time because of the cold setting.

Our weather warmed a bit, then we had snow, and after that we had winds that drifted the snow, and now it is getting colder. Our thermometer reads warm, so it is colder than our thermometer reads, so I am guessing it is about 15 above Fahrenheit, although our thermometer says it is 17, so that makes it minus 10 Celcius if I did my figuring correctly, and anyway it is cold. If I were the one needing to go outside tonight I would be like this song says, "Baby Its Cold Outside," and please don't make me go!



"Baby, It's Cold Outside"


I really can't stay - Baby it's cold outside
I've got to go away - Baby it's cold outside
This evening has been - Been hoping that you'd drop in
So very nice - I'll hold your hands, they're just like ice
My mother will start to worry - Beautiful, what's your hurry?
My father will be pacing the floor - Listen to the fireplace roar
So really I'd better scurry - Beautiful, please don't hurry
Maybe just a half a drink more - Put some records on while I pour

The neighbors might think - Baby, it's bad out there
Say, what's in this drink? - No cabs to be had out there
I wish I knew how - Your eyes are like starlight now
To break this spell - I'll take your hat, your hair looks swell
I ought to say no, no, no - Mind if I move in closer?
At least I'm gonna say that I tried - What's the sense in hurting my pride?
I really can't stay - Baby don't hold out
Ah, but it's cold outside

I've got to go home - Oh, baby, you'll freeze out there
Say, lend me your coat - It's up to your knees out there
You've really been grand - Your eyes are like starlight now
But don't you see - How can you do this thing to me?
There's bound to be talk tomorrow - Think of my life long sorrow
At least there will be plenty implied - If you caught pneumonia and died
I really can't stay - Get over that hold out
Ah, but it's cold outside
Oh, baby it's cold outside
Oh, baby it's cold outside

[Edwin]

There is another song associated with Christmas and it is "Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire." The song was composed by Torme and Wells in 1946 when I was one year old! The song was recorded by Nat King Cole, and one of its lines is "from kids from one to ninety-two" which encompasses most of us! Here are the lyrics:

Chestnuts roasting on an open fire
Jack Frost nipping at your nose
Yuletide carols being sung by a choir
And folks dressed up like Eskimos
Everybody knows a turkey and some Mistletoe
Help to make the season bright
Tiny tots with their eyes all aglow
Will find it hard to sleep tonight
They know that Santa's on his way
He's loaded lots of toys and goodies on his sleigh
And every mother's child is gonna spy
To see if reindeer really know how to fly
And so I'm offering this simple phrase
To kids from 1 to 92
Although its been said
Many times, many ways
Merry Christmas to you...
*music* {10 stanzas}
And so I'm offering this simple phrase
To kids from 1 to 92
Although its been said
Many times, many ways
Merry Christmas to you...

Many of the great musicians did this song including Justin Beiber. Whitney Houston and several others have done the song. Chestnuts roasting on an open fire gives a very romantic scene in front of the fire place. The fireplace is a very romantic imagery as you sit there with your loved one, enjoying the smell of the wood, the sound of the cracking fire, and the warmth of that fire on a cold winter's evening! Wouldn't you just love to sit there enjoying that, maybe also drinking some hot chocolate! It sounds very inviting, doesn't it?

[Edwin]

It is pretty close to 17 to 20 degrees celsius outside. The thermometer we have is not accurate and always reads warm, so I don't know exactly how cold it is, but I will know in a little while when I drive down the hill as our car has an accurate thermometer in it. Yesterday evening when I checked on the banti chickens their water was liquid in the bottle, but it was frozen in the bottom where it comes out, so they couldn't get any water. I have a heat lamp in there for them, and still it was that cold. I stuffed the back of their window with more plastic, and put plastic in all the cracks in their door. I was really happy that our water and drains are still liquid running water instead of frozen, as they would have been when it was this cold during other winters. My block wall, and some insulation under the water pipes is working well and keeping them from freezing, so that is a good feeling! January is our extremely cold month normally with lots of snow and wind storms drifting. We had some of that in December, so the cold and the storms are making our winter seem long already! We figure when February comes the worst of our winter is finished, and that will happen in a couple of weeks, so I think we will make it. I try to keep our pellet stove buring on a low setting to burn fewer pellets and cost less money, but it has been so cold lately that I have started burning the pellets on a higher setting than I normally would. But spring is coming, and just around the corner!

[Smiley]

Just remember,that 0 Celcius is 32F. After that for every 2.12 degrees F you increase 1 degree Celcius. It has been hitting high 50`sd and low 60`s this last couple days,the snow is pretty much gone.

[Edwin]

Yes, Smiley, what I wrote didn't make sense, did it? You picked up on that, and I made the mistake of saying 17 to 20 degrees Celsius, when I meant minus 17 to 20 degrees Celsius. It was actually pretty close to zero degrees F. with a slight breeze and very cold. I hated to have to leave the house when it was that cold because when I am here I can burn the stove hotter or cooler depending on need, but leaving when it was so cold I left the stove burning a little hotter which cost me more pellets burned, and more money to replace them, but cheaper than having water pipes freeze up and causing damage, which shouldn't happen after I built that wall, and did that insulating, but you never know, and better to be safe than sorry. I know the wall has made a difference already, because other winters with no colder temperatures and winds we had drain pipes, mainly traps freeze up, but this winter we have been safe from that, so I know the wall has helped, and I know insulating under the water pipes was good for added protection as well. The wall was kind of an after thought. I built a quick build structure over the water system outside that we set up last April, and that gave me the idea for building the wall around our house and it was a good idea. It has warmed just a few degrees so we came back to a fairly warm house. With no wind we are feeling warmer in the house than usual.

High 50s and low 60s will definately take the snow away. Where we lived before our tourist trade in the winter came from the snow that we had. Where we were was effected from the Coast, not many miles straight through to Seattle, so the extra moisture in the winter translated into lots of snow on the East side of the mountains. We also had warmer air in the valley than anywhere in this part of the state because of air coming off the ocean through the mountain pass. When we got warmer temperatures and wind we went into mourning because that meant that we were going to be losing our snow quickly, and also our tourist trade. Some people still would come, but not in great numbers like would come when we did have lots of snow.

[Edwin]

Today is no doubt one of our coldest days! The wind is not blowing along with such a cold temperature, so that is one blessing! We have a thermometer that is not accurate. It never gives the temperature as cold as it is. We have an accurate one in the car, but I am not going to walk a quarter of a mile just to see exactly how cold it is. A lot of times I don't pay too much attention to the actually reading, but I think, "Boy it is cold outside." It is at least minus 20 degrees Celcius! We are at 2800 feet elevation, so have have air temperatures of at least 10 degrees colder than in the valley. Yesterday when we were walking out for church the sun was shining beautifully, and it made the snow sparkle! When we dropped down into the valley it was overcast, and we did not see the sun until we drove back up the hill to come home. I think the sun appeared at about 2200 feet elevation. When we got up this morning it was about 5 degrees Celsius in the house, and I had the stove turned up to what I have been during the cold weather. I turned it up some more and the in house temperature has increased a couple of degrees! It is just plain cold, our water pipes and drain pipes are still working, I think due to the concrete block wall I built all the way around the house. Even when it is cold, it is nice to have the water still working!

[jadegil6]

We had a made-to-order perfect day here today...it was 74, and sunny. We sometimes get great weather like this in January, but not that often.

[Edwin]

Wow, Sir Michael, that is wonderful weather! I tried to estimate what the temperture was from looking at our malfunctioning thermometer, and it was 1 degree above 0 F, which is just about what I said I thought it was, only to be honest I was taking a wild guess, and I was only 1 degree off!

Normally where we live January gives us our lowest temperatures of the year, as well as the hardest windstorms which means deeply drifted snow! There was one January during the 1970s where it warmed up right in the middle of the winter, and the snow all mealted off! That seemed really wierd, and doesn't happen very often! In 1968 we had temperatures between 30 and 40 degrees below zero, and hard winds with an excessive amount of snow. There were revines that the snow was drifted 30 feet deep. My brother had a pickup truck with a CB radio antenae on top, and sitting right outside his house, his pickup was drifted under until all you could see was the very top of that antanae wire! That was about 10 miles from where we are living now, with about the same elevation.

I think I am going to be happy to see spring come because our severe winter weather actually started in November, and we had weather in December like we normally get in January! We always figure that when February comes the severe part of the winter is probably finished.

[Smiley]

I will not miss winter very much.Today there was an 80 car pileup near here due to lousey driving conditions.Folks around here tend to be skilled winter drivers but this time of year it can be hard to know what the weather will do.

[Edwin]

Smiley I am the worst offender, and a person can receive a traffic citation where we live for driving too fast for the road conditions. The speed limit might be 60 mph, but a person might be going 50 mph or slower and receive a citation for driving too fast for the road conditions. The daughter of a lady we knew well was coming home, lost control on a slick road, ended up in the ditch, and was written a citation with a fine for driving too fast for the conditions. I drive fast when the roads are slick, but I keep my eyes open and my mind alert. Sometimes I am guilty of driving too fast in the fog, but I try to exercise some good judgement as well. I think I do better that way now than I used to.

In Seattle, Washington they mostly just have rain. Once in a great while they have an accumulation of snow. No one is prepared for snow, and no one knows how to drive in snow, so they end up having wrecks everywhere on snow days in Seattle. Those pile ups on the freeways are sad, and sometimes people get caught in the middle and it just happens to them.

I will be very happy for Spring and Summer, and our severe weather came early. It seemed like, it was hot, it was hot, and all of a sudden, it was cold! We were working on our water, and I had a shelter built over our water system, but it all froze up one night early in November! I took the shelter down, cut out the water system, left the water turned off until I finished my cellar and could put it down there where it would be safe from freezing. Then early in December we had weather that we normally have in January. We had our Van snow bound/stranded in here, with our roads not useable, and the County roads were not passable as well. Just tonight for the first time we drove our Van back all the way to our house. I am taking a chance of getting it stranded again, but I am hoping that kind of winter weather is finished. We will see. There isn't anywhere that we have to go, so if we can't get out of here, it won't be the end of the world. But I am voting for Spring and Summer!