Miscellanea All across the country this winter we're enduring colder weather than normal as well as outrageously high prices for gas and oil. I know your utility bills are giving you a headache, but winter brings other headache causes too.
Glare is a major cause of winter headaches.
Particularly necessary when there is a snow cover, sunglasses are a wise measure year round to protect against cataracts among other things. Second, indoors, where we spend most of our time in the winter. Many of us are using woodstoves, coal stoves, gas stoves, fireplaces, and kerosene space heaters to keep warm without sending the fuel oil man's kids to college on one season's worth of our bills. If you use a woodstove, as we do, or a fireplace, you need to have your chimney cleaned annually. The cost is a small price to pay to save yourself the danger of a chimney fire or at the very least respiratory problems.