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What are U doing today? (Ongoing thread)
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Jan 03, 2014 06:44PM
Nina, sorry to hear "Birdsong" wasn't so good. I had ordered a DVD of it from our local library. Oh, well, there's always the scenery in France. :)
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Oh wow! Stay under the blanket and think warm thoughts. Where were you last summer? Does that help?
Poor Pixie. I saw a cartoon with a cone on the dog and now I can't remember the punch line but I do remember it was the dog getting even with his owner.
Nina wrote: "Oh wow! Stay under the blanket and think warm thoughts. Where were you last summer? Does that help?"Nina, I dream of the summer all winter! LOL
Joy H. wrote: "Here's a cartoon about a dog wearing a cone:http://www.condenaststore.com/-sp/I-r..."
Joy H. wrote: "Here's a cartoon about a dog wearing a cone:That; a good one. Not the one I was trying to remember but funny nevertheless.
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Joy H. wrote: "Here's a cartoon about a dog wearing a cone:That's ahttp://www.condenaststore.com/-sp/I-r..."
Hah! Yeah, the cone of shame is awful, but you should see what used to be her eye. She's pretty awful looking right now, but she has to wear it. I think the worst wearing a cone so far has been Lily. She was trying to jump out of the yard in hers & it was more of a nuisance since it was so much bigger. This new one of Pixie's is even smaller than the other one we have for the Jacks which is nice.
Cones can definitely be a problem. One time our dog had one on and I forgot for a short time that he couldn't access his water. I finally realized it!Hope the eye area heals up quickly.
Well, good thing is that dogs are very forgiving.
Pixie is healing amazingly fast. She's now worrying us because of playing too hard with Pip & she's jumping up on to the back of the couch, her normal spot. It's a bit precarious due to the cone, though. Tonight, I had to get the hay rack in (The boys had broken one of the metal pieces & it was sticking out dangerously.) & took Lily with me. Pixie was dying to come. She raced around the yard & bounced all the time.
Dogs LOVE to run! I enjoy seeing our Romeo run. He can really skitter around! Wish *I* could run like that!Old Alice, our son's German Shepherd, is staying with us for a while. Her back legs hardly work but she manages. She can even get up to a slow trot as she tries to keep up with Romeo outside. She and Romeo are great friends and LOVE to go outside together. Their friendship is a pleasure to watch.
The pics of them below are old but the dogs look pretty much the same:
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Marg fed the horses for the first time last night in a month because I got late out in the shop. She's supposed to go back to work tomorrow, but I'm not sure if we'll have school for the next day or two. It will be too cold for the school buses & I don't know if the heating systems at the schools will be up to the challenge. We're not supposed to get this cold & just aren't set up for it. Marg had to run her bus for 45 minutes the other day before the air compressors unlocked. No air, no brakes. It was in the teens then. They're now calling for a high of 0 on Monday with windchills of -36.I'm going to batten down the hatches this morning. It's a balmy 37 out. I'm fitting a trashcan with a light over my frost-free hydrant outside of the shop & will make a box to go over the spigots in the wash stall. They're not frost-free, but are usually OK because they go directly into the heated tack room. (Frost-free would have stuck into the room too far.) I may cut the wall out around them & will definitely crank the heat up in there.
The horses beat up the hay rack yesterday, too. I had to go out & bring it in. Somehow they caught one of the metal bars & pulled it loose from its welds so it was sticking out at right angles. Marg didn't see any cuts, but I'll check them closer this morning when I feed.
I need to reweld the bar back in first. Unfortunately, it's galvanized so I'll have to be careful as that releases poison gas when it's welded. I'll get to try out my new welding helmet that Erin gave me for Xmas, though. It's one of those fancy ones that automatically dims. My old helmet was my father's so is 50 years old & has a crack in the headband so usually removes a few hairs each time you take it off. A minor ouch that I barely notice, but Shorty was kind enough to point out that I can't spare many any more. Brat!
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Joy H. wrote: "Dogs LOVE to run! I enjoy seeing our Romeo run. He can really skitter around! Wish *I* could run like that!Old Alice, our son's German Shepherd, is staying with us for a while. Her back legs hard..."Love the pictures. I forgot what breed Romeo is?
Joy, the dog pictures are really cute; thanks for sharing them!Glad to hear that Marg feels well enough to go back to work, but hope she doesn't overdo, especially in this kind of weather.
The temperature here on Tuesday is predicted to be -7 degrees, without allowing for windchill. Rather than walk to work with that temperature, I'm seriously considering using the computer to work from home; but I'll see how the logistics work out.
Jim, good luck with those problems. It's a good thing you're handy!Who is shorty?
Werner, stay home!
Nina, Romeo is a Maltese. He's 8 years old but still like a puppy.
He deserves his name. He looks like a charmer. Below zero here tomorrow and six inches of snow on drive; school cancelled. Good thing.
Yes, Romeo is a lover. He likes to cuddle. A real lap dog!The weather reports are really frightening. We're keeping our fingers crossed. Certainly plumbers will have plenty of work with all the broken/frozen pipes there will be. We keep a trickle going all the time to keep the pipes from freezing.
Had yummy split pea soup with ham our daughter made for us for our Anniversary. Great present. Good with kale/lettuce/pear/gorgonzola cheese sprinkles and walmut bits and olive bread and a glass of red wine is a good cheery winter meal.
Joy, Shorty is my daughter, Erin. That's her family nickname. Squirt was my mother's.Here are some pictures of the animals.
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Werner, I don't blame you for not walking anywhere for the next couple of days. It's supposed to be brutal out there. Right now we have lots of wind & rain, but the temp is still about 40. We got up to 55 today & are supposed to go down to 9 tonight, with -3 tomorrow night. That's an almost 60 degree fluctuation in a day, not counting wind chill. That's supposed to be below -30 with our high winds.They've already called off school for tomorrow & I'm not sure if I'm going in or not, either. As cold as it is going to get, as fast, & with as much rain as we're having, the chances for lots of black ice are 100%.
My truck quit working out by the barn & the horses were a complete pain. We finally had to tie then up so Marg could tow my pickup out of the field with hers. A few hours later, mine started right up. Probably water in the gas.
Nina wrote: "Had yummy split pea soup with ham our daughter made for us for our Anniversary. Great present. Good with kale/lettuce/pear/gorgonzola cheese sprinkles and walmut bits and olive bread and a glass of..."Wonderful!
Have you ever had sauerkraut with dill seeds in it? Marg got a different brand today & it was different alright. Certainly wasn't what I expected, but not terrible. Marg hated it.
Happy Anniversary, Nina. How many years?Jim, I loved the pics and the captions too! Those dogs have the life! The horses, Rascal and Indy, are so handsome! Poor Pixie. Hope that eye heals up fast for her.
Thanks, Joy! Our dogs do have it rough, though. Ask them & they'll tell you how we abuse them. Never enough food, playing, hunting or anything.;-)
It was 5 degrees out this morning, a 50 degree drop from just 14 hours ago. That's WRONG!!! The wind is blowing pretty hard, too. I don't know what the wind chill is, but it's gone below 'damn cold' into something unprintable. At least the roads were dry & the drive in was fine. I sure wouldn't want to break down today.
I had a full bed last night. For some reason Pixie decided to sleep with me last night. She picked her way from the foot of my bed, through the Lily & Amber minefield, to the pillows where she settled in for the night. Marg couldn't find her & was worried since we had to close up the dog door due to the wind. She proceeded to prowl the house looking for her, afraid she'd gotten locked outside, & wound up waking us all up. She said the way the heads poked out of the puppy pile was funny. Ha ha. None of us were amused.
I am staying in the house today. The wind chill index here is -33F!
It's brutal out. Now it's zero & I don't know what the windchill is. Awful cold. We lost power for a few hours this morning. We're all electric, so I left work & came home to set up the alternates - portable propane heaters & a generator. I came in, got changed & the power came on. Yay!!! As well insulated as our house is, we still dropped almost 10 degrees in the few hours the electric was out.
Yes, Jim. I really feel sorry for those who live in older houses that are not well insulated. Severe cold like this is very hard on people.
Mercer County's schools are closed today, and it was snowing heavily when I walked to work this morning (from our daughter's house, where I stayed last night, it's only about a mile to the BC campus); but it's stopped now, and the temperature was a "balmy" 19 degrees at last report. But it's expected to be much colder tomorrow. I've got permission to work from home that day; and that's exactly what I'll do (unless, which I don't expect, the schools are open tomorrow and I have to help get grandkids on the schoolbuses). I just got an e-mail from our administration giving all employees permission to leave at 3:30 p.m. today, if we don't want to risk bad road conditions by leaving later.
Jim wrote: "Thanks, Joy! Our dogs do have it rough, though. Ask them & they'll tell you how we abuse them. Never enough food, playing, hunting or anything.Jim, There was a cartoon in the paper this morning with the little boy and his animals in bed and he was saying, "That's why I never need an electric blanket."It was 5 degrees out this morning, a 50 degre..."
My husband said last night what he thought was, "How lucky we are to have a warm house." Supposedly it was wind chill of twenty eight below early this morning. Jim supposed to be warmer toward the weekend so help is coming your way.
Joy, our Anniversary was in November but I've had the present of pea soup in the freezer and didn't use it until last night. We have been married sixty six years. Sometimes hard to believe; happy we are still together. We were 20/21 when we married in Kansas City, MO. My husband was still in school, Marquette U. in Milwaukee WI so we lived in an apartment which we shared until he graduated the following summer.
I think I have sprinkled dill into saurkraut. Maybe it is an acquired taste.
What is up with the message sorting on GR tonight? It's awful, weird, & all bollixed up.
You people further mid-west are having it harder than we are in the East. Our temps aren't as cold as yours lately. We've come out of that zero weather. Right now it's about 30 degrees F. Here's our weather link:http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick....
I've often feared forgetting the dogs outside in the yard in cold weather. So I stay by the door till they come in. Only once did I forget our jorji out there and Eddie found him on time. I hope never to do that again!
Nina, 66 years of marriage is amazing! That is wonderful!
Jim, I don't notice any trouble with the message sorting but I haven't been doing any sorting lately.
Nina: Congratulations on 66 wonderful years!
Joy, I typically sort so the newest message & the comment box show first. When I do that now, your first message opening this topic shows up as #4337, yet has the oldest date. It's goofed for sure.Nina, congrats! 66 years is amazing.
I'm up in the middle of the night because I flushed the toilet & the water didn't refill it so I just had a nice crawl under the house to thaw the pipes. Didn't take much & a dripping faucet should keep it free. I guess there is something good about getting older & making multiple trips to the bathroom at night.
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Checked the tack room & upset the horses to check on it. All OK, I think. Right now, the main concern is the hose bib by the water main in the back of the house. It is frozen solid, but I have no way to get to it without cutting into the vapor barrier under the house & that might make things worse.
Now I'm awake, though. It's 2:30am. I'm skipping work tomorrow.
Jim wrote: "We're not supposed to get this cold & just aren't set up for it. Marg had to run her bus for 45 minutes the other day before the air compressors unlocked. No air, no brakes. It was in the teens then"Interesting about the buses. Queensbury runs mostly Internationals and "plugs them in" over night. I was under the impression that the plug-in just heated the crankcase? Not sure. The compressors come right up. immediately.
Marg plugs hers in just like I do the tractor, Earl. The compressors or their air lines apparently have moisture in them, though. I know there are systems to keep them drier, but I guess they're expensive, one more thing to break, & generally aren't needed in our climate. When it gets this cold, they don't want the kids standing out there, anyway.
jim, I admire Marg. When i was much younger I thought that would be one of my least desirable jobs to drive a school bus; but, somebody has to do it; just like coal miners.
Hope things warm up for you folks soon!
I remember being shocked when I first saw a woman driving a school bus. Now I'm used to it. Same for women working on road crews. Same for newscasters. Years ago you saw only men doing those jobs. How times have changed!
It was six degrees this morning and wind chill way below when I ventured out to feed the birds;but don't have all the horse work etc that Jim does. Hope it warms for him.
Get some rest, Jim! You have to keep your strength up. You don't want to get sick.
I can't decide if Pip, our new puppy, is a Heinlein critic or connoisseur. He's chewed 3 of his books now, one twice. He hasn't touched another book in the house, although he has chewed a magazine that fell on the floor.:(
Though I had permission to work from home yesterday, it turned out I didn't have to, since BC was closed that day due to the weather. But I'm availing myself of the same privilege today (the library's open, but the start of classes for the new semester has been put off until tomorrow). Our temperature had actually climbed to 42 degrees as of awhile ago (up from eight or nine degrees this morning), and the snow is starting to melt; but I expect it to turn quite cold again by this evening. :-(
42! We might get there tomorrow. We're up to 29 & it feels like a heat wave.
I know the feeling;could it be spring? It wss 22 when I went to my book club this morning. One suggestion that most agreed we should read was "The Light Between the Oceans,"
The current temp here is 13 F.http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick....
Alice keeps slipping on the icy ground in our backyard. With her bad hind legs, I'm afraid she'll break her hip. I sprinkled some stuff all around to melt the ice. Then Eddie told me the stuff costs around 7 dollars a jug. This is getting expensive! First the stretcher and now this. LOL
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