
NOAA.gov has a java-script wind-chill calculator HERE.
Thanks to benefactors enabling me to get the stove, stovepipe, chainsaw and woodsplitter. Thanks to those supplying the army blankets and the down, not to mention warm socks! This is when I realize that the polyurethane rolls that I spread out and tacked to the frame of the hermitage are not insulated. But I’m not frozen. No complaints here at all. It’s a challenge supplying enthusiasm.
The windchill calculator above would be worthless in Minnesota, where I’m from. It was once minus 74 Fahrenheit, with a windchill of minus 104. Yikes! Another time there was crisis on Lake Superior outside of Duluth. The largest and heaviest ocean-liners in the world (the Minnesota Iron-Ore boats) all got stuck in the ice, all with a gargantuan ice-breaker ships between them. The lake was freezing at a rate of five inches a minute. Brrrrrr! Not that cold here.
After all, Jesus is here in the tabernacle… The flames of His Heart warm all who come to Him, even this most insignificant of hermits. He’s very good and kind.


Accompany me, Father George David Byers, S.S.L., S.T.D., as I begin life as a Catholic Priest-Hermit by choice. Holy Souls Hermitage is dedicated to the sanctification of my fellow priests, bishops, deacons & seminarians going through the purgatory of this life or the next. Prayer and sacrifice go up, of course, for both Benedict XVI and the next Successor of Saint Peter. 






Father, I hope you are drinking some of that Mystic Monk Coffee to keep warm, andI hope it warms up soon. Is that unusually cold for that area? God bless you!
The neighbor says it once got to 14 below zero Fahrenheit (without the windchill)! That’s the nighttime temp. I’m sure it’ll warm up during the day, though today that will still mean below freezing.
Abbe Pierre, the famous rag picker of Paris,once said,”Christ feels no cold or heat in the Blessed Sacrament, but Christ in people feels everything they do!”.
God bless you Fr. George David.