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Rain on top of snow makes ice and slush.
It’s true! My driveway and sidewalks are covered in ice. The yard is ice and slush much to the dogs consternation.
The temperature is 36 degrees at present. Yeah, that’s real fun… rain on top of ice and snow also makes fog.
Here’s hoping all this crappy weather gets out of here fast.
You all have a good one and stay warm!
Yeah, he won’t be driving my car anytime soon.
“How the bleeeeep do you start your car?” First thing I heard yesterday before my coffee.
“Easily.” I poured a cup full of coffee, stuck it in the microwave to heat it, and smiled at him.
“No, seriously. How do you start your car? I was going to warm it up and clean it off but I couldn’t start it.”
“You push the button.”
“I did, it wouldn’t start.”
“What?” Now I was worried. I grabbed my key fob. “See this button? You push it twice to start it from here.” I pushed the button, the car started. I sighed with relief. “Did you do that?”
“No, I was sitting in the passenger seat and pushed the button on the dash, and it wouldn’t start.”
“Um, that’s a safety feature. If you aren’t in the driver’s seat with your foot on the brake, pushing the button will do nothing.”
I love my van!
You all have a good one!
OMFG Brrrr!
Avoiding going outside as much as possible. It is down to 5 degrees. It has been a while since we’ve been down to single digits and it can stop any time now.
The dogs don’t want to go out until they absolutely MUST go. Funny to see them dash out, pee, and pee, and pee, and pee, then dash back in. Next stop for Patty is rolled up into her super soft snuggly blankie. Gavin is starting to snuggle up next to her. They never did this before the super soft snuggly blankie.
Time for me to put on the Jammies and curl up with a good book.
Last night
Too many books?
It has always been my belief that no one can ever have too many books. However, my Kindle, at times, begs to differ.
Once I hit 500 books, my Kindle started to behave a bit off kilter at times. Therefore, I think my Kindle may think I have too many books.
I plan to get another, newer, better, back-lit Kindle. I’ll keep my cook books and research books on this one and use my new one for my ‘reading’ books.
Works for me.
You all have a good one!
How to murder a murder of crows.
For some odd reason this didn’t publish last night.
Any ideas would be welcome. We have a murder of crows, they live in the cemetery and they hang in our yard. They are going to be the death of our dogs.
They’ve been leaving ‘gifts’ in the yard. The damned garbage pickers keep dropping bones of every sort into the yard. Gavin is quick to grab them and has never in his life dropped anything out of his mouth when we’ve told him to drop it.
So far he’s 2 to our 5 but each one he succeeds in getting could mean a zipper surgery for him. It seems that no matter how careful we are on checking the yard he manages to find them.
How does one murder a murder of crows?
Many crows in a dark tree at New Orleans Square in Disneyland (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Aren’t all houses money pits?
The Curmudgeon woke at six in the morning yesterday to the strong odor of oil burner exhaust. I didn’t smell it because, due to his MS, I sleep in another room and I always sleep with a window open.
He hit the emergency switch, shutting the furnace down, and called the furnace repair shop. They sent someone over directly. A few hours later he handed The Curmudgeon a bill for $714.00. There went a quarter of our savings.
The front porch is in dire need of repair, the windows on the back porch need replacement, both the back and front doors need replacement, The yard needs repair, the pond filled in and the area leveled, and at some point, I need to get painting…
You all have a good one.
English: This is an oil furnace used for home heating in the US, this model was made in the 1970’s and is still in use today (2006). Română: Centrală termică de pardoseală folosită pentru încălzirea unei locuinţe din SUA; a fost fabricată în anii 1970 şi este încă în uz (2006). (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Nice day
Yay! 65° yesterday!!! All the snow is gone! Even the dogs are pleased.
Other than that, it was a quiet day here at Casa Doggonnedmysteries. The Curmudgeon had a restless night, couldn’t sleep in the afternoon, and I hope that doesn’t make his walking bad tomorrow.
I, on the other hand, slept like a baby with my new CD player playing my sleep CD all night. Color me happy.
You all have a good one!
Cell phone crazy
I know I’ve said it before, but I hate cell phones. I do not want to be connected to the entire world 24/7. However, with The Curmudgeon’s health I am beginning to think I have to get one. Looked at ZTE Awe N800 (Virgin Mobile)…Thoughts?
I will use it so seldom that even paying monthly seems silly to me. Although I am beginning to see it as a necessary evil.
I find all the phone models and crazy expensive plans frustrating. My last cell phone I used so seldom and forgot to buy more minutes for so long, they shut it down.
The phone store clerks are no help at all since they are most likely on commission and want to sell me the most expensive phone and plan as possible.
Honestly, if I could find a phone plan where I could get what I want for super cheap, I be doing cartwheels. No, The Curmudgeon has a flip phone with the data shut off, does that answer your question?
You all have a good one. I think I need someone with me who knows the ropes…
English: New Mobile Cell Phone Technology (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Simple shopping manners some people need to learn
I swear there are people out there that never go grocery shopping until Christmas. They are the same people who never shop for gifts until Black Friday or Christmas Eve. I am so glad I no longer work retail.
Some of us go grocery shopping when we have to go, every week or so, not just because it’s going to snow or there’s a holiday breathing down our necks.
Therefore, if you are one of those people who only grocery shops once a year, here’s some simple shopping manners you should learn.
- Remember you are not the only person in the store, keep your eyes on your surroundings. No one wants you to barrel into them or to block an aisle for a good ten minutes while you stare at the merchandise and don’t hear or see anything else…like people trying to get past you..
- So what, that you haven’t seen Junie since last Christmas, it doesn’t mean that for the next thirty minutes you should carry on a conversation and completely block two aisles while remaining oblivious to the people who would like to get past you, or reach for something directly behind your fat ass.
- If I’m impatient with you it’s because you are wasting my time, I don’t want to be here and would like to get finished.
- Seriously, if you can’t sing. Don’t.
- Do not cut in line because you only have ten items and I have a cart full. You are NOT entitled to special treatment. And don’t bitch when everyone applauds after I tell you that in a voice that one can hear all over the store. No, I don’t need a megaphone.
- Look all directions, including behind you, when you go to pull your car out.
- Remind me to make sure my cupboards and freezer are fully stocked by December 15th next year so I don’t have to leave the house and deal with idiots until after New Year’s Eve.
You all have a good one! Happy Winter Solstice!
Aw, you can’t find your car?
Well, maybe next time you won’t block a driveway. I had places to go and things to do and you kept me from all of it. Lucky for you I didn’t have an emergency during the night. I wonder what this is going to cost her. 🙂
Yeah, we think it was a female that parked there. Usually it is men who are that rude and will actually argue with me when I tell them they can’t park there, but this time we think we saw the culprit when we left to go to the farmers market.
G and I were walking to the car when we saw a young, I-am-entitled woman talking on her phone, walking back and forth, waving her free arm about, staring at the place from where the car, just a few minutes before, was towed.
We looked at each other and grinned. Once we got in the car and pulled out we both cracked up.
“Want to bet that’s the idiot who parked in front of the driveway all night?”
“Naw, that’s too easy.”
You all have a good one and remember if it’s my driveway you’re thinking of parking in front of, you will be ticketed and towed. 😉
Maybe I need a sign:
Who shook the snow globe?
It looked and felt like we were inside a well shaken snow globe all day. Yes, if you’ve been reading my blog for any length of time you know I like one snowstorm a year, after that, all bets are off!
We’ve had too many and too much now. It can stop. The dogs are even ticked off about the snow. You have to boot them out the door.
The Curmudgeon is having trouble walking in the crap in the yard. He is not liking that white stuff either.
Therefore, if you are the person who is shaking the snow globe, I ask that you STOP IT! To the rest of you, you all have a good one!
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