Lisa sent me an email from a laptop. They have no power, but they are able to keep their house at 50 degrees (BRRR!!) because they have a woodstove (at least the kitties can hang out by the stove!!)
and don't expect to get power back any time soon!
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Lisa sent me an email from a laptop. They have no power, but they are able to keep their house at 50 degrees (BRRR!!) because they have a woodstove (at least the kitties can hang out by the stove!!)
and don't expect to get power back any time soon!
Thank goodness she's safe and keeping warm. Does she have water, though? That's our biggest concern during a power outage.
she didn't mention water. I do know she can go 2 miles to get to a store, so if she runs out, she can get more.
I was wondering about BSG, thanks for posting Mini.
We got at least a foot of snow.
you got A FOOT of snow!! that is awesome. We have wet corn snow falling right now. i wonder if it will accumulate.
My back deck.
Eeeeek KG, that gives a whole new meaning to thread DRIFT.
Keep that white stuff out west!!
ooo beyoootiful photos. we got snow too, a rugged inch.
and the wind is howling and it's below freezing. I wonder how many of the tender plants i put in the ground in September are going to survive THIS!?
LOL!!... that made me laugh!!Quote:
Originally Posted by OakLeaf
hi girls... here are some pics from the barn yesterday. Lady is the Saddlebred (brown horse)... stalking Snowflake in the first three pics, LOL!! I always train on Lady... unless I ride the trail, then I ride Lance.. the big teddy bear, he he. Lady is too fast for me for trail, she'd kick my butt!!! Snowflake is the white fluffy one... she's a bit old and doesn't get ridden much... but Lady keeps her company and is her best friend. Whereever you see snowflake, you see Lady. Lady rocks.. she is sooooooooooooooo fast and sweet!! The 4th pic is Lance... the 1800lb gelding... a big sweetheart :) The last pic is ET.. the ham, LOL. When we let the horses loose in the arena, most of them play and run... but ET follows me all around... and just keeps posing for the camera, LOL!! Great day at the stables yesterday. I can't wait until I buy my horse! :)
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I'm back! :)
I posted about our 2 1/2 day power-less ice storm experience in the Ice Storm thread:
http://forums.teamestrogen.com/showt...t=28278&page=2
Good to be warm again!
Oh good to have you back! I was just reading this morning how some people don't expect to have their electric back on for days... glad you aren't one of those!
we were thinking we'd go for a walk, but the streets were kind of like an ice skating rink, so we just walked around the block. Exceptionally cold here; 31 degrees with a stiff wind blowing, so the ice and snow isn't going anywhere for a while!
Ha. Teigyr and spouse and Salsa and spouse did the Jingle Bell 5K this morning. Teigyr ran it all, I ran part, and the guys walked damn fast. It was actually pretty nice by the time we got going, around 9 am.
isn't it icy up there Salsa? I'm glad you had some traction. if you had what we have, you wouldnt have gone 5k believe me!
It got up to 70 today. A rare treat for December! I think the wintry mix they're expecting is not going to happen.
Karen
The Jingle Bell 5K is downtown, which doesn't get/keep as much snow and ice as the hinterlands. It's like your neighborhood where we live too, but it wasn't hard to get out, and once we were out, driving was okay.
It was really pretty fun. By the time we started at around 9 am, it was reasonably nice out. People wear costumes, and some of them are pretty cool, like the people dressed as presents complete with big fancy boxes around their middles, and bows, and the guy wearing a big cardboard train engine around HIS middle. The Arthritis Foundation organizers give out lots of bells so people jingle as they run. I was glad we did it, although at 6 am when it was pitch black and the wind was blowing gusts of snow off the roof, we did have a 10 minute sit-on-the-bed-and-ponder-staying-in-it session. Glad we didn't, though.
Here's the crowd near the start:
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And here are the runners and walkers on the part that goes on the express lanes of I-5:
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looks like a lot of Santa's Elves were out there, getting in shape for Christmas!
Wow, all kinds of interesting winter activity pictures! I love seeing all your pictures. :)
I'm trying to catch up on some work this evening.
I also managed to do my laundry, put away all the 'power outage supplies', repack the cleaned fridge and freezer with the foods from the coolers out on the cold porch, and get the boxes of Xmas goodies packed up for my daughters and ready to ship out tomorrow.
wow, I'm impressed, Lisa. We've had all 3 events canceled this weekend due to weather (so you think i'd have more time) and i still haven't gotten everything done!
Lisa, you're amazing!
Salsa, you too!
I am decidedly lazy these days. I may have just figured it out. I get lazy when I get stressed and, even though it has all turned out well in very little time, I think my body isn't finished processing the stress yet. :o
It has been a lovely weekend, though. We had a nice get together with the girls from belly dancing on Friday night. We've done a bit of shopping, a bit of trying to make up for the sleep deprivation, watched some movies, played with the dogs in the snow - nice and mellow.
Hugs and butterflies,
~T~
Hey it's easy to be a whirlwind of activity after 3 days of sitting around layered up with gloves and hats and basically doing NOTHING much but wait for the power to come back....feeding the woodstove and reading by lantern light every evening. I should have brushed up on my knitting but somehow never felt inspired enough or there wasn't enough light. Couldn't clean up branches outside because everything was frozen rock solid into place.
Then suddenly you get a WARM, LONG 8 hour night's sleep, TWO blazing hot showers, and shed all those stifling layers of sweaters and blankets and believe me you'd be rushing around excitedly doing a thousand things too! :D
KG- that's a LOT of snow! Wish I was there with my snowshoes! I look forward to some nice fluffy deep snow (and hopefully no more major ice layers this winter). I am badly in need of some fitness walking/biking/jump-roping, or SOMETHING! Gotta get caught up and get my act together again before I turn into a blob.
Mimi- I liked your snow pictures as well! I see you are wearing orange as usual. :)
It'll be around for a while with highs of -13C all week. Light and fluffy, easy to shovel.Quote:
Originally Posted by BleeckerSt_Girl
I love the snow photos KG!!! :) Oh how i love to walk in fresh snow. Crunch, Crunch, Crunch. Ah...
Walking in the sand doesn't sound like walking in snow:(
Yellow Snow & Yellow sand should not be eaten.
Yes but on the beach you get the soothing sounds of the waves and the seagulls and the whispering dune grasses..... :)Quote:
Originally Posted by crazycanuck
I love the 'silent heavy blanket' non-sound when it's snowing heavily....all sound is muffled and the silence is so magical.
One of my early memories was as a little girl in NewYorkCity- my mother was walking with me during a heavy snowfall at night, and we stopped under a street lamp to just look at the snow on the ground there- in the street lamp light it was glittering and sparkling like millions of diamonds on the ground, and I was completely transfixed by its amazing beauty.
Another time, I think I was about 4, we took a train upstate to visit a friend of my mother's. I was used to riding underground city subways mostly, not trains out in the country. We got off the train at the station, and walked across some tracks. The tracks were covered with fresh snow, and suddenly I stopped to stare at the amazing combination of colors and textures I saw at my feet- my new bright red shoes stood in the sparkling white snow, and some pieces of perfect shiny jet black coal were there too, with their glasslike finish. The black coal, red shoes, and sparkling white diamond snow, all together! I was amazed.
Then we went on to visit the friend, whose elderly mother ran a little antique shop from one part of her home. The one thing aside from the coal on the tracks that I remember from that visit was going by myself into a little side room of antiques....
I thought I was entering an enchanted world....
the room had only some large tables all around (the table tops being about my head height), with dozens of old wooden painted bird decoys, wonderful birds of all kinds...mallards, Bufflehead, Canadian geese, brilliant wood ducks! The windows had various colored glass antique bottles lined up on the sills and tables in front of the windows, and the golden late afternoon sun poured through them like stained glass...patches of blue, red, amber, and green shining onto the walls and onto the birds. I focused on a huge wooden white swan decoy, his beady black glass eyes stared at me while all the colored bottle lights poured in with the sun.
Lisa, is that where you first met Ruby?
Not that I know of. But come to think of it, I could have been being watched. :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by Biciclista
Nah... that was like 50 years ago!
But Lisa, Ruby is more than 50 years old, really!
two days without a post? The horrors!!!!!!;)
any adivice for dealing with folks who have LWS (lazy worker syndrome)
I dunno--do you mean you or someone else?? My answer would be different! :p:p:p And...could you please remind us the kind of place where you work/job you do?
How are your bike/car wounds healing?
Saw the cutest thing on my way into work today, there's always this very old greyhound being walked along the street that carries it's leash in it's mouth as they amble along...today she was wearing an adorable bright red cape, she looked like SantaPooch!:D
Pax - that's so cute! Thank you for the early morning smile! :)
Fredwina - have you been watching me???
It's another snowy day! It would be so nice to stay in bed allllll daaaaaaaaaaaaaay
Hugs and butterflies,
~T~
That's right!Quote:
Originally Posted by salsabike
If it's you, we'd say: "Hey, cut yourself some slack and don't expect so much of yourself- you have every right to take a little break over the holidays, it's GOOD for you!"
If it's one of your co-workers, we'd say: "Tell that lazy %$*))#$ to get off their totally LAME butt and pull their share 'cause it's causing more work for everyone else to take up their slack!"
Because that's the TE way.
:D :D :D :cool:
will post more over the weekend (I'm back at being a wage slave:o)Quote:
Originally Posted by salsabike
PAX,
I have three more weeks of PT. I'm supposed to talk with my atty today and get an update.
I'm SIIIIICKKKKK! could be sinuses. headache!
ack!
Karen
Karen--long steamy shower and hot tea with lemon. Do you get to stay home today?
We have a snow day. It's somewhat irrelevant since I'll have to make it up later, but it's still nice. Even though there's only about two inches of snow. This is an improvement over yesterday's snow day, when there was NO snow in the Seattle area at all, not one flake (but plenty of snow just north and south of us). Meteorology here is a real challenge because of the different systems that interact from the north (cold air), west (marine air with moisture) and south (warm air). I had a long talk with a Cornell meteorology student a couple of years ago when they were making alumni fund-raising calls and she said they all always want to come out here to do internships because it's so interesting to try to understand the weather here. It was very funny.
I even talked my spouse into working at home today, which he can do some days. This would never happen in my home town of Albany, but here they just don't have the resources to clear the roads and they quickly become really dangerous. Not to mention the "I don't know how to drive in the snow" folks.
That's right, BSG---TE friendships are based on a heavy enabling factor! Gotta get that SOMEWHERE in life... :)
we're "stuck" home too! SNOW! whooopeee!!
I tried to be responsible and go to work. I didn't make it past my driveway without falling down...twice. Looks like I'm staying in today.
No falling allowed for you, Ms. Dex!!! How's your knee?
By the way, for anyone who cares about this: when the temps fell below freezing this week, I called the Wild Birds Unlimited store and said, hey, do you guys have any ideas for how I can keep my hummingbird feeders from freezing during the day? I can take them in at night, but it was cold enough in daytime for them to freeze also. And they said, yeah, we do--rubber band some of the little handwarmer pouches on the bottom. It works perfectly! My hummingbirds have been able to feed during this cold weather with no problem--the feeders stay unfrozen all day long.