Sitting with a cup of coffee. (coffee lovers)

[pollitos2013]

Wow - just caught up on 8 pages of posts! Hi everyone - I moved 10 yards of sawdust without damaging anything and I finished painting the run- in shed before the next snow storm. Coffee and bourbon now - life is good.

 

[chickisoup]

Wow - just caught up on 8 pages of posts! Hi everyone - I moved 10 yards of sawdust without damaging anything and I finished painting the run- in shed before the next snow storm. Coffee and bourbon now - life is good.

 

[chickisoup]

Ok, any knowledgeable folks out there;
I just finally noticed my feather is gone which I assume means my subscription ran out. How do you keep track of such things? I take it we are not sent renewal notices???

 

[chickadoodles]

Wow - just caught up on 8 pages of posts! Hi everyone - I moved 10 yards of sawdust without damaging anything and I finished painting the run- in shed before the next snow storm. Coffee and bourbon now - life is good.

I know every time I get on here there are so many posts! lol Thats wonderful that you have gotten so good using your new toy!

It's been cool and windy here all day so the coffee pot has been on all day here. But no snow for us.

 

[chickadoodles]

I guess we are going to have to go pick up some tarps to block the wind from the new polar vortex coming in this next week.

 

[TeaChick]

it means a thick layer of ice on top of the layer of snow.

And I, OF COURSE, still have summer tires on...not winter tires.

I am happy to slip slip slide down my driveway AFTER the snow berms are high enough to keep me from rolling down the hill.....but as of this moment we have no berms to help the car stay on the road.

Rolling my car down the side of the hill would cost me a great deal of money.



I am ALWAYS late in putting on my snow tires, because I hate the thought of wearing down my expensive studs on clean roads. I want to make sure that there is a layer of ice and snow everywhere I go, before I put those expensive things on.

What a coincidence, I keep summer tires on all year round!!!

I remember you being late putting on your winter tires last year. Get with it!!!

I left Texas because too many non-Texans kept moving into the state,

I don't like people..... also I was running away from the in-laws.......unfortunately, they followed us up here.

I also CLEARLY was deluded when I thought that I could be happy in the cold.

Spouse said that we got ONE, and ONLY ONE move after marriage....... so, if I wanna move, spouse has to die (diabolical laugh)

Oh, my!

@TeaChick We've got laminate floors, but from the robots point of view, they're no different from the hardwood. It also does well on ceramic tiles, or plastic floors. A carpet floor shouldn't be a problem either. We don't have thick rugs, those would probably problematic for it, but other carpets it's fine on. And it switches between surfaces well. Adding the pet brush to it made it more quiet, and it works better on carpets. For us, it's been really great since you can program it to go off whenever you want. Our's does a daily cleaning on weekdays at 14.00 (that's 2 pm for you Yanks). It is a lot slower than vacuuming yourself, so it's good to let it do it while you're away from home. And another benefit it has, is that socks and other similar things will get tangled in it and stop it from working, so it forces you to tidy up stuff every day. Reflective surfaces and low furniture can be a problem though. I had to add a ½inch elevating bit to our couch, because it kept getting stuck under it. Now it works like a charm. Before the couch was about 2mm lower than the Neato, so it got stuck. It also comes with 7 feet of magnetic strip which you can place under a carpet if you don't want it to go on it. You can buy more of the magnetic strip. Watching videos where the Neato was compared to the Roomba, I liked the Neato better, because it works in a more systematic way. The Roomba had a very random pattern, while the Neato does one room at a time, moving in straight lines. And it goes around obstacles and furniture nicely too. I haven't seen a Roomba in action in real life though.

That sounds good. I'll have to talk to DH and get him to do the research. Does it need to run every day? If you don't mind, (or you could PM me, if you don't want to answer publicly), what square footage is your home (or one room) and how long does it take to do it?
What's with the reflective surfaces?

 

[TeaChick]

just called the car shop.... everyone else who had been procrastinating called earlier this morning than I did.

They are booked solid until Monday. -sigh-

-sigh-

also... not sure how I would re-balance them after swapping them over.

Bath tub?

yep, drinking lots of coffee today.... guzzle guzzle guzzle

Not getting enough work done. -sigh-

-sigh-

This time of year, you'll always get the same headline in the papers, "Winter surprised drivers". This year they changed it a bit. It was "Guess what surprised the drivers?"

 

[TeaChick]

Hope you have your skates sharpened Alaskan!!!

We're just getting heavy snow right now with temps dropping into the dreaded "polar vortex" afterwards.
Stocked up on coffee, wood for the fireplace and fuel for the generators

So glad I'm down here, where we just kind of feel the Polar Vortex and we don't have to snuggle up with it all winter long!!!

I hope Ron gets some snow.

No!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If Ron gets snow, then I might get snow and you won't do that to dear, old, kind, sweet, did I mention cold-hating... little, old me, now would you????

OH GOODIE!!!
Now we are under our first winter storm watch for the year on Monday

It couldn't wait until I was able to at least get one walk outside??? Now I'm probably grounded til spring.

Oh, and my poor neighbor goes in to have her hip replaced next week.

I hope everything goes well for your neighbor!
Sorry about your winter storm warning!!!

It was 96 today.... We got Santa Anas.... Wind has been blowing hard enough to close the free way.... Yesterday i had to drive to my house through that wind tunnel... it wasn tooo bad we didnt get pelted with rocks this time...

deb

Now, you're bragging!

Me likes laffing gass... you know whats going on but you jsut dont care.... LOL. I have only had it once...

deb

Is that a horse? and what is the polka-dotty thing above its head?

 

[TeaChick]

Wow - just caught up on 8 pages of posts! Hi everyone - I moved 10 yards of sawdust without damaging anything and I finished painting the run- in shed before the next snow storm. Coffee and bourbon now - life is good.

x2!

Ok, any knowledgeable folks out there;
I just finally noticed my feather is gone which I assume means my subscription ran out. How do you keep track of such things? I take it we are not sent renewal notices???

I'm not that knowledgeable.

Hope you get it straightened out.

I guess we are going to have to go pick up some tarps to block the wind from the new polar vortex coming in this next week.

I hate the PV!!! (a new acronym) lol
I want to move to Hawaii, do chickens like Hawaii?

 

[TeaChick]

I want a 500-calorie cup of hot cocoa!!!