The Old Folks Home

[microchick]

Micro! Good to see you online. Maybe you need a flamethrower!

I don't think we have enough propane on hand, LOL. It was a riot watching one of the dogs hit a stretch of glare ice. All four feet were going in different directions and running in place until she figured out that she had to steer towards some grass and more solid footing.

I told DH this morning that taking care of the chickens didn't take a fraction of the time that suiting up, putting on the studded boots and mincing my way up the hill did.

 

[Alaskan]

Sorry to hear about BF's fall, SCG. It may not be quite as dangerous as for older folk, but falling on ice is no fun.

In the spirit of "it's an ill wind that blows nobody good," the inclement weather may be contributing to a fall in crime (pun intended). I saw a news story out of Maine about a guy that held up a bank with a BB gun yesterday, leaving with a certain amount of cash. As he fled on foot, he slipped on ice and fell, dropping the money and the gun. As luck would have it, he fell practically at the feet of a Maine State Police Special Agent, who, realizing the implications of a running person, money, and a gun, wasted no time in apprehending the suspect.

A BB gun???

 

[bruceha2000]

Had lots of ice on driveway - then it snowed. That was much easier/safer to walk on.

Except when the snow and ice don't have an affinity for each other. We got about 9" of snow. Slipped a bit (no falling) walking down to the barn to get to the tractor to clean up snow so DW and DD could go to work. Didn't matter how carefully I stepped where there was still glare ice (sanded and/or ashed) from before the snow that the snow would just slide over the ice. With the ice I didn't dare use the machines to go down to the lower part of the barn, things don't back uphill on ice real well. I shoveled that and out to the solar panels. Snow had slid off the panels so no real need for that path today. But it is done.

Hope BF feels better soon @superchemicalgirl.

No trash pick up here in over a month.

Oh come on, there wasn't ONE day in the last month that they could come? Ours was picked up a day late last week due to the snow we had. Don't know if that will happen this week as well. Snow stopped about 11:30. I'll be putting the cans out in the morning as usual and there they will sit until picked up tomorrow or Friday. I blew a "cage" with the snowblower on the garden tractor in the snow I piled with the real tractor. That should keep the cans in place if we get wind. Plenty of problems with that last week all over town.

 

[pennyJo1960]

The trash company here would steal you blind I grew up with the boys here
anyway Diva look into the new theory we are narcoleptic falling asleep opportune times
late logging in had to see what our weather is suppose to be it is sloshy out there walk at your own risk

 

[microchick]

Except when the snow and ice don't have an affinity for each other. We got about 9" of snow. Slipped a bit (no falling) walking down to the barn to get to the tractor to clean up snow so DW and DD could go to work. Didn't matter how carefully I stepped where there was still glare ice (sanded and/or ashed) from before the snow that the snow would just slide over the ice. With the ice I didn't dare use the machines to go down to the lower part of the barn, things don't back uphill on ice real well. I shoveled that and out to the solar panels. Snow had slid off the panels so no real need for that path today. But it is done.

Hope BF feels better soon @superchemicalgirl.



Oh come on, there wasn't ONE day in the last month that they could come? Ours was picked up a day late last week due to the snow we had. Don't know if that will happen this week as well. Snow stopped about 11:30. I'll be putting the cans out in the morning as usual and there they will sit until picked up tomorrow or Friday. I blew a "cage" with the snowblower on the garden tractor in the snow I piled with the real tractor. That should keep the cans in place if we get wind. Plenty of problems with that last week all over town.

Seriously. We switched our pick up to every other week and upgraded to a small dumpster due to non pick up in the winter due to the really crappy road conditions. I was on the phone in the early winter talking to them about it. They don't give credit for missed pick ups due to the weather or road conditions. First the sweet young thing who by her accent lived in a southern climate, told me to just 'pile our trash by the road' and don't worry the truck driver would pick it all up. I added 'before or after the coyotes, raccoons, possums and Amish kids tore into it and strew it up and down the road?' Her reply was 'Oh? You have Wildlife to deal with?' Funny that she thought Amish kids were wild life. She must not get out much.

We have a marvelously nice man who drives a huge truck on our route. I give him my extra eggs every time he picks up the garbage and I've seen him handle that monster truck through conditions that frankly gave me the peedoodles. So if he doesn't show up on his appointed day, we know the roads are pretty much impassable. He has even promised to get our trash picked up even if it is on an off week and I know for a fact that nobody around us is getting pick up either. Just horrible road conditions out here.

I just wrote them a check, painful considering I've given them almost two hundred dollars NOT to pick up the trash these past almost two months. I have a note written to them on the outside of the envelope:

......You're going to need bigger trucks!

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Arrived to work safe and got home pretty good although 4 different vehicles tried to kill us on the way home. Now is at least 2 hours of clean up. Heavy, wet snow on top of eons of ice.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Oh and the best news of the day is the goat fabric is back in stock... now i need to decide if I really need it or can live without it

 

[Peep_Show]

What is the plural of crocus? Crocus? Crocuses? Crocci?

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DH had an icy slip-and-fall shortly after Christmas and strained his back pretty good as a result. He's now doing physical therapy (which helps, but they're brutal to him and so he's wiped for about a day afterwards 2X/week) and he's talking about perhaps doing yoga once PT is finished.

 

[sourland]

What is the plural of crocus? Crocus? Crocuses? Crocci?

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DH had an icy slip-and-fall shortly after Christmas and strained his back pretty good as a result. He's now doing physical therapy (which helps, but they're brutal to him and so he's wiped for about a day afterwards 2X/week) and he's talking about perhaps doing yoga once PT is finished.

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I have seriously considered yoga, but am afraid that my body is not flexible enough.

 

[Alaskan]

Oh and the best news of the day is the goat fabric is back in stock... now i need to decide if I really need it or can live without it
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I think you need that