It’s going to be colder than usual in this area for a few days, significantly below freezing. My condo is just shy of 900 square feet and on the ground floor. I’m concerned about internal pipes (outdoor pipes are the HOA’s responsibility), especially since the low isn’t supposed to hit until sunrise, when I should be at work.
As far as I can tell, only a gas fireplace covers most of the “common” areas, and although that’s fine during the day when I’m home, I obviously don’t want to keep it on when I’m asleep or out. There are two (smallish, to me) baseboard heaters in the two bedrooms. I’m thinking of swallowing the extra electricity cost and keeping the baseboard heaters on with the bedroom doors open, so the heat spreads eventually to the whole place, at least staving off the possibility of freezing while I’m at work.
Is this necessary/recommended? Is there a better way?
Well, there have been three cases of Covid here at the Overlook Hotel and Retirement Village, so they’ve shut down the dining room, suspended van service, etc. until further notice. It may seem a bit extreme, but this place only had one case of Covid back when it was a pandemic. They’re serious about not having it become more widespread. We really don’t socialize much here, and we prepare most of our own meals, so I’m not too concerned.
I do have a few pots on my balcony, and can easily grow enough parsley for a 2 year supply, lettuce for a couple months, and most of the greens I’ll eat in the course of a year. When the pots survive the local children, the squirrels, the rabbits, the cats…
Kids have been returned to their mom. I stopped at Food Lion on the way back from the playground and grabbed a ham steak (among other things) and we had that for supper with boiled spud chunks and cabbage-n-onions. The rest of the ham will be cut up for bean soup - YUM!
I managed to get 4 loads of laundry done today, which makes FCD happy - he was running way low on jeans! That’s a chore that truly never ends, unless you decide to move to a nudist colony, I suppose.
Does anyone know who borrowed Buddy’s brain cells? He kind of needs them back. Within five minutes of getting home, I’d tripped over him once and stepped on his tail once (both due to his insistence on being VERY close to my feet).
Good lunch. Ate a lot. I had 3 meatballs (about 1.5 in. dia.), four teeny wienies, some of the Expensive Lunchables for Adults (nod to swampy) including the meats, cheese, and olives, and a salad of Romaine and whatever dressing, with grated parm on it. (The parm was real, grated cheese.) And my Monster Ultra Zero.
Nice 39 degrees at the park this morning.
Too bad the drama continues.
Cerby was not so energetic this morning, I guess I really wore him out yesterday.
As we were leaving, he decided to sploof in the mud. My son was livid because the back seat cover was covered in mud.
Howdy Y’all! Home from the Tuesday Shrove over to the church house. There was plenty of foods and plenty of people to eat it up, so win-win! I was told it looks like close to a thousand bucks was raised for the discretionary fund. This is a fund for local stuff like helpin’ folks out with utilities, food, rent and so forth. This is for the most part a one time thing for anybody and efforts are made to point folks in the direction of places/programs that can help with the long term. Anywho, a good time was had by all and now folks can get all solemn and such for Lent, which starts tomorrow.
when I was a kid mom wanted me to do housework and the beginning of lent so naturally, I said well mom I can’t cause I gave up cleaning for lent …stepdad laughed and mom gave me an evil smile but she said well li didn’ tgive up kicking your ass for not listening … so I lost that one
nellie, my current mattress is a pillow top, so it just gets rotated. It’s the last time that I buy one of those, since the wear can’t be spread four ways. I usually rotate it ~every three months.
Moooooom, when my grandparents had a winter place in Englewood (close to Sarasota), the tap water was high in sulpher too. The first time that I got a drink of it, I just about gagged. I, too have more than one set of sheets, but hate folding the !@#$ fitted one, so tend to put the same set back on out of the dryer. Glad that you found the manual to the Yahama.
Irked, came home, took a 10 minute power nap after eating and am catching up now with a little reddish doggy in my arms.
Here in San Jose a winter storm is brewing. There’ll be snow on the local hills on Thursday morning. But right now some preliminary major wind is kicking up, and my 16-story office building is creaking and swaying. I have a bit of a phobia about earthquakes and skyscrapers, so the sensation of movement is freaking me out and I’m looking forward to getting the heck out of here.
I just heard that we lost a window glass from the 15th floor, which luckily didn’t land on anyone.
Wind’s picking up pretty strongly in Sacramento, too. I’m seeing weather forecasts that think the Sierra foothills will see snow as low as 1000 feet in the next few days.
It was a record high 77 degrees(ferret height) today. I dreamed that I had to swim in against the riptide, while avoiding the barbed wire and anti-tank barriers, then I had to clean off my desk while being pestered by one of my supervisors, and fix a curtain made of 4 different materiel. I’m not sure why my sleep brain decided to play “Survivor: OCD Edition” today. Maybe this Manhattan will help.
It’s a good idea. As an occasional pharmacy employee(and son of an RN), I’ve had to remind my doc that he can’t prescribe X right now, because the other doc has me on Y which reacts very badly with X.
I would. Unless you’re in Texas, the cost of the extra electricity will be 500% cheaper than paying for pipe fixing.
You need to change this to “even if you’re in Texas”. Here in central Texas we had an ice storm about three weeks ago with accumulations of ice up to 4" thick which took two or three days to finally melt. There are tree branches and whole trees everywhere on roofs, yards, cars, fences. I figure the piles of branches will probably be cleared away by May, maybe.
Evening all. Ended up watching soccer (Champions League) in the afternoon and when I did go to the gym around 5:30pm there was no parking and 4-6 cars circling looking for a spot like sharks, so I came home and ate my 2sDay Mac-and-Cheese instead. So now I’ll try to resume my exercise routine on Wednesday…
Aaaahhhhhhh…(takes deep breath)…Aaaahhhhhhhhh. Hope you survived.
Cookie,glad they are still serious about COVID, given the ages of most of the folks there.
Bumba, I have only one prescription for 1 pill per day, but I expect as I continue to age that munber will be going up.
And that’s all,folks. Take care and I’ll catch you on Hump Day.
@JaneDoe42, better keep an eye on weather forecasts. Accuweather mentioned some chance of urban flooding in Phoenix, which if I recall correctly is near you.
When our friend was in assisted living and they had to close the dining room, they always gave him a choice between meals delivered to his room or a credit on his rent. Have they offered anything like that to you?
Back when I lived in California, I did a BIG favor for a co-worker who lived in Big Bear. In return, she gave me a gallon jug that she would fill with her tap water anytime I wanted. She got the worse end of that deal, she was dragging that thing to work 5 days a week for a couple of years!
Hubs made some pretty big mistakes with his parent’s estate and home as well. There is a good reason you aren’t supposed to make big decisions for at least a year after a death or divorce, grief clouds your thinking.
And, my three sisters will end up with most of Mom’s money as well as her home because they “always had it so hard”. That means I started working when I was 14 and didn’t stop until I was able to retire. They didn’t work unless they were forced to and won’t be able to retire so they need the money more than I do.
Yeah, I’m less than pleased about that as well. Mom took my sisters on train trips across the country, they went on cruises and tours, all sorts of things I wasn’t even invited to because Mom knew I had to work. I think I’m going to smoke some weed now.
I know GG doesn’t have them. He got himself locked in the bathroom last night and peed in the bathtub, then tracked all over the floor and counters. It’s so good he’s so easy to bathe.
Bad words. I’ve stopped wondering why we can’t have nice things anymore.
Whoo-hoo! Good job!
Your mom and mine must have been sisters. Except for the part where I was getting grounded, LOL!
This. Every so often I’ll see some woman demonstrating how to fold a fitted sheet into a neat, standard sized shape and I watch those just like I do David Copperfield tricks. Anyone can do them, they just have to practice a thousand times a day for a few years.
If it is a newer building, it is on earthquake rollers, so swaying in high winds or during earthquakes is to be expected. Rigid buildings collapse and pancake, flexing buildings survive much more stress. California has some of the strictest building code in the world, many other countries wish their buildings were up to California standards.
I’m saying that to say that I’m pretty sure you are just fine up there. Of course, I left California for a state that doesn’t have earthquakes, just floods and wildfires, so take my advice for what it is worth.
A steady diet of sandwiches. /mom voice/ eat some real food once in a while! /mom voice/
I always take my bag of pills with me because I’m too lazy to write up a list of my latest stuff, plus when I do I always manage to forget something important.
Thank you for thinking about us. We are on the side of the mountain leaving Phx, so we get more weather than they do. Our hatches are battened and the bird feeders are full. The LWT had pitched boxes over our fence and I had them on the back porch, so put them in my car cause I didn’t want them to get ruined. They can stay there until I get them to a community center.
Surplus produce has been rescheduled to Thursday and Tai Chi has been cancelled. I haven’t heard anything about schools closing and my BFF doesn’t think she will get a bad weather day because the state is a bitch about that.
My area is under a Winter Storm Advisory tomorrow through Friday morning. Mostly gusty high winds, with blowing snow or sleet. Ice glaze quite likely. Inch or so of snow over or under the ice, who knows. Dangerous wind chill/frostbite warnings. Should be fun.
All I have to do tomorrow is teach my refugee literacy class at the library and make a deposit at my bank drive through. That’s over at 2 pm so I should be able to scamper the 14 city blocks back to home sweet home before too much nastiness lands. Slap the windshield cover on my car and run inside, not to leave again until teaching my next class on Friday (which will be canceled if there is any iffy slush on the street).
If I die because of winter weather it’ll be because my gas bill has gone from $67 a month to over $210 a month and that is closing off two rooms and the thermostat is set at 65 degrees. As moooomm would say: sheesh!
