A bit to digest

Today's chunk 'o journalism comes courtesy of Penelope Green and the New York Times from a story on how some people shun heat in the winter.

Go ahead. Take your time. We'll wait:

As Americans across the country wrestle with spouses and their thermostats over how low to go — as they join contests like Freeze Yer Buns, now in its third year, a challenge posed by Deanna Duke, a Seattle-based environmental blogger who calls herself the Crunchy Chicken, to lower the thermostat to around 55 degrees, or follow the lead of the Maine couple trying to live comfortably in a furnace-free house and blogging about it in their Cold House Journal — there are those who are living nearly without heat by choice, and doing just fine, thank you very much.

If you lost count, I get 97 words.