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[SadieKate]

The leaving your car running thing is, of course, illegal, but in a lot of colder communities, for a long time, the police would be very lenient about it. In our old town that was true until someone's car got stolen and that stolen car drove into a group out running, killing one person and badly injuring another. They had pretty low tolerance for it after that.

I've never been clear on the details, though. If the car is running but locked, is that legal?

I think the point is not that it will be stolen but that cars periodically get a mind of their own and take off without a driver.

Been the recipient of that one. Fortunately, no one was injured but my brand new, pretty red Subaru wasn't happy and my neighbor was mortified.

He finally learned to use his parking brake.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Any car thief would first have had to slowly chip my car out from within it's block of ice if they wanted to steal it this morning (thus probably doing me a favor), plus they would have had to ice skate to my house to get here in the first place. The ice is supposed to accumulate another 3/4"-1" tonight ....ice storm warnings are out and the lights have flickered a few times already. People are expecting some power outages tonight.

I did get my flat tire fixed after I thawed and chipped the car out this morning (a nail was embedded in the tire). We pumped up my car tire with our bicycle pump until it was inflated well enough to get to the tire fixing place. Took a while, DH and i took turns.

Then I got to the vet appt on time with my beloved Pearl, who has not been well for a few days.
Turns out she has a general infection with inflamed gums and REALLY swollen lymph glands in her neck. No wonder she felt bad! Vet said it could be caused by various other health factors, including her thyroid or her kidneys (which we had a lot of trouble with 4 years ago), but before we go investigating all possibilities in depth again we are just going to kill the infection off with antibiotics (a pill twice a day for 20 days) and also increase her dietary fluids a bit more to help her kidneys in general. The antibiotics should knock out this infection and we'll see how she does after that. If she gets sick again after that we will then do some lab blood tests.
She was SO glad to get home, and purred up a storm!

[OakLeaf]

Aw, hoping Pearl feels better soon. But... how do you push fluids with a cat??

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Aw, hoping Pearl feels better soon. But... how do you push fluids with a cat??

I've cut back on her dry food and now she gets her favorite canned organic cat food instead, in three small meals a day- each serving mixed with enough warm water to make it a bit soupy. She seems to like it a lot, so that helps. With her inflamed gums she's probably happy to not have to crunch the dry food for a while anyway.

[pardes]

Turns out she has a general infection with inflamed gums and REALLY swollen lymph glands in her neck. No wonder she felt bad!]

Bless her little heart! Hope she feels better VERY soon.

[Zen]

forward to 1:42
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hM4vD...eature=related

Catchy tune

Later that night Jed teaches Granny to smoke

[crazycanuck]

I'm off to bed as i have an open water swim event tomorrow morning

If you can send safe swimming vibes that would be lovely

Have a coolio friday!

[Tuckervill]

Vibing for the swim, CC!

Poor little kitty. She's pretty. I'm glad the "push fluids" question was answered!

Watch out on that ice, Lisa. I know three different people who died after head injuries from slipping on ice. When we get ice, it's an event--you are certainly more prepared than we, but ice is different than snow. We just hunker down and pray the trees don't fall. Are any tree limbs threatening your electrical wires?

Karen

[Biciclista]

a 56 year old man riding to work yesterday got killed by a car yesterday about 6 miles from my house. He was wearing a helmet, had lights and a reflective vest. He was going downhill fast and was hit (or flew into) a car turning left in front of him. the driver of the car was very old, 79, and is not being charged. it was still dark out. We're pretty freaked out about it. I don't know who he is yet, but he bike commuted every day.

Lisa, beautiful photo of your cat.

[Selkie]

Lisa - I hope Pearl recovers quickly! Is it still icy up your way?

The storm that blew through here and is now up in New England was horrible. Lots of rain. Cold rain. Had a weird electrical short last night because a bit of water leached into the basement wall (just wet on the cinderblocks). Consequently, I didn't get much sleep, so I took today off. The joys of having an old house!

Now it's windy and promises to get back to winter, after a short break from the "lower than average" temperatures we've been having. I'm hoping this all means an early spring for us East Coast folks.

[LBTC]

Mimi - that's very sad. Butterflies going out to his family and your riding community.

Snow here. It might be pretty once it is light out....

Hugs and butterflies,
~T~

[Tuckervill]

What a sad story about the bike commuter. I used to think 56 was old, but now that I'm almost 47, it seems so YOUNG. He was so young, really.

Karen

[Fredwina]

geez, will I ever ride again?
I was going to sneak in my club chirstmas lights ride, but found today that goes right by my PT's home
anybody have an invisibilty cloak I can borrow?

[OakLeaf]

I'm ticked off at REI.

When we signed up as members we told them not to put us on their paper mailing list. Then when we got a catalog I sent them an email and asked to be taken off the paper mailing list. Then when we got another catalog DH sent them an email asking AGAIN to be taken off the paper mailing list, and reminding them that we do not patronize companies who send paper catalogs (although in practice we won't hold one catalog at holiday time against them). (Yes there was enough time between catalogs for them to have processed a change - although of course we shouldn't have got the first one.)

In response (at least they responded) he got an email talking about their "environmental stewardship" and referencing a link that said they actually used 100 tons MORE paper to print catalogs this year than last.

[Pax]

I'm ticked off at REI.

When we signed up as members we told them not to put us on their paper mailing list. Then when we got a catalog I sent them an email and asked to be taken off the paper mailing list. Then when we got another catalog DH sent them an email asking AGAIN to be taken off the paper mailing list, and reminding them that we do not patronize companies who send paper catalogs (although in practice we won't hold one catalog at holiday time against them). (Yes there was enough time between catalogs for them to have processed a change - although of course we shouldn't have got the first one.)

In response (at least they responded) he got an email talking about their "environmental stewardship" and referencing a link that said they actually used 100 tons MORE paper to print catalogs this year than last.

I'm a member of the Human Rights Campaign and they kept sending me TONS of mailings, to the tune of 5-6 a week. I emailed the division that handles the mailings four or five times and finally emailed the membership division with an ultimatum "if I receive one more item from you other than my annual renewal request I will cancel my membership". Amazingly, it worked.