For the first time in three hundred years, I gave the order to bring in firewood. When the steward asked why a house full of things that don't feel cold would need a fire, I never did manage an answer.
There's no need to answer. I already brought the firewood in, the day of the first frost.
There's smoke coming from the chimney. Start something you haven't done in three hundred years, and the household starts counting the days.


