Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for January 30, 2013

Janis….get one of those LED reading lights also….won’t have to have several other b lights on. Arlo, start whittlin’ something.

I’m at 64 during the day, 68 evening and 60 overnight…It’s Boston!

I’m with Johnson. We own an 80 year old log cabin in the North woods. Lately we’ve been using electric space heaters to warm the place up simply because they are convenient, But the old oil heater, which is in the middle of the cabin and hard to light, still can’t be beat for comfy warmth on a cold morning.

I WISH I could set the thermostat on 72. Unfortunately, I live with my 75 year old mother who has been cold all her life. She’d set the temperature to 85 if I let her. I finally drew the line at 79. (Not kidding. The woman wore sweat suits in the middle of a Texas summer.)

62 at my place day and night. You get used to it pretty quickly.

I usually keep mine at 70. The bedrooms get warm but the rest of the house is still chilly at 70.

My husband and I have thermostat wars sometimes. I want it at 71 or less to save energy, and he likes 75+ because he doesn’t want to put on a sweater. We live in central Florida, and he likes it cold in the summer. I about freeze!

It’s sweet that she wants his bed to be warm for him.

20°C (68°F) is considered “room temperature” for chemical reactions and experiments.

I’m wondering if body fat has anything to do with temperature preference.

I think Mr Johnson is running out of ideas

72 degrees! What a waste of heating. Put on a sweater, move around more often and 68 is fine.

74 here with the sliding doors open. Welcome to the Keys!

When JJ says “the hearth was the focus of family life”, the linguist in me has to point out that the Latin word for hearth was “focus”.

59° at night or when I’m not home. 64° in the morning before work and 67° in the evening when I’m sitting around after a shower. Love the automatic thermostat though. Don’t have to remember to change things.

I think everybody missed the point. In the old days, the family was closer and when mom and dad went to bed, they kept each other warm, making babies. (No stinking e-blanket needed.) I think I know how Arlo thinks.

She has the electric blanket hooked to their home network so she can control it from her phone.

same here- they added on without adjusting the heating system and did not tell us when we bought the house, which was in summer. We keep ours at 68 if we’re home and 62 at night plus space heater in the addition for now. I would love to set it higher but its too expensive.

Shirl Summ: You haven’t discovered clear night radiation yet? With temperatures below 50F, no clouds, humidity below 20%, no wind, you can freeze water. Towers remain from 2000 BCE in the Middle East built as windbreaks for this. Sherbet is from an Arabic word – that’s how they made it.