I am not referring to the Microsoft computer operating system but to the openings in our walls that allow us to see out.
Google says:
By 1575, English glassmakers made glass in Venetian fashion. In 1674, an English glassmaker George Ravenscroft invented lead glass. The first glass factory in the United States was built in Jamestown, Virginia in 1608. In the early 1800's, there was a great demand for window glass which was called crown glass.
When we moved back to Point after living away for a year, we examined several house plans and settled on one that had a large set of windows facing the south. At our latitude, the winter can be long and gloomy but we learned from our previous house that good windows with a southern exposure can make a big difference in both actual lighting and our moods.
We visited a pueblo in Taos, New Mexico that had no windows and it was dark and gloomy. Windows matter, for sure.
Before we moved into this house that our son-in-law built 25 years ago, some neighborhood kids broke a window in the sidewall of the garage. Recently, a double-paned window in our living room developed a crack and that crack has lengthened ominously. We are having help from both our son-in-law and a glazier getting recent and long-standing cracked windows repaired.
When we first contemplated moving to Wisconsin, I wondered whether windows could stand living temperatures on one side of the glass and severe cold on the other. At that time, I had even less knowledge of the structure and components of a double-glazed ( or "storm") window. We had not then visited the Corning Glass works in upstate New York where we eventually got a little insight into all the amazing things about glass.
