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So I managed to get on my feet today, and did a kitchen cleanup. Still not trusting myself on my feet enuf to walk the dog, but I will go out with dear daughter and try to build back some muscle and strength.


Did a quick dinner yesterday, since I had leftover roast pork in the freezer. Hubby had a very southern dinner: pulled pork, onion rings and (tried something new) oven "fried" okra, which he really liked and went back for seconds.

Dear daughter not partial to tomato, so she had "fried" rice (really, just rice and mixed veggies with Teriyaki-style sauce) and pork, satay style. She didn't care for the "fried" okra, altho she likes okra in soup.

Today I think I'll do another easy dinner: beef stew, since the beef is already trimmed and cut. I'll save the complicated dinner for some other day.

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First round of mah jong for the new year went okay. Got 2nd place today. Walking is bad around where I am because of the snow which is starting to freeze a little and a lot of ice on the ground.

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First round of mah jong for the new year went okay. Got 2nd place today. Walking is bad around where I am because of the snow which is starting to freeze a little and a lot of ice on the ground.

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Good for you on the mah jong!

But be careful! I hope the snow and ice melt quickly!

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So, what did your buddy think? Huh? Huh? Huh?

Expecting to hear a lot of "Oohs!" and "Ahhhs!"

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He's not the Oooh and Ahhh type. It was interesting though, seeing what he immediately noticed, and what he was completely oblivious to.

I didn't realize he hadn't been there after the cabinets were finished because he immediately reached for them and watch the soft close and was impressed. But as we sat down in the livingroom that had a complete makeover, he didn't even remember that there were holes all over the walls from old frames and window dressings, cracks all over the ceiling and the walls by the doors and windows, and that the colors of that room used to be a gross green and a gross yellow and were now cool grey. He said himself he's not very observant.



Obviously, he noticed the porch from the outside and how much better it looks with the windows.

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Nice plan for the flooring, SIX! Perfect!

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Yeah. I'm going to take the old quarter round off as well as the beat up tiles in both closets before I start painting them, and when I'm done I'll put the flooring in and decide if I want to put the quarter round back up.

All these plans, but it's so freaking cold in the house I can't seem to get myself motivated right now. It will warm up a tad this weekend. Not above freezing, but at least it won't be sub-zero at night for a while except for a dip again on Monday night. We were having a pretty nice winter up until after Christmas, but it's a lot colder right now than it was last year at this time.

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Hope you didn't get frostbite. THAT would put a crimp in your style!

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Everything seems fine today. I think I was really close though.



How are you feeling? Looks like you're getting more done than I am.



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Storms have passed over. Perfect Sunday here, warm with a slight breeze. So glad it's not like a furnace here and no threats of bushfires (fingers crossed). Still in isolation so not straying far from the garden.

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Temp sitting at -4C. Got to warm up a bit more if it is going to snow.

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warm up to snow?

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Storms have passed over. Perfect Sunday here, warm with a slight breeze. So glad it's not like a furnace here and no threats of bushfires (fingers crossed). Still in isolation so not straying far from the garden.

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Brenda:
Temp sitting at -4C. Got to warm up a bit more if it is going to snow.

SIGNY: warm up to snow?


JSF: I also had a question mark in your exchange, but likely not the same reason as you.
Brenda had said the temp was 10 degrees F. And that it was good. And you agreed. Before covid I usually said my fave temp was between -10F and 10F.
And now Brenda says it is 25F.
None of that sounds cold to me.

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JSF: But yes, snow is more difficult when it gets too cold. Up at cloud level is colder than ground temps, so snow falls up to about 40F. Lower temps make it harder to encounter an even colder front which causes the precip.

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JSF: Today I noticed the Fox River was frozen over in Green Bay, I hadn't been paying attention. Probably not enough to walk on. Fox is one of the largest rivers in WI, and historically was a critical and crucial navigable waterway - for transport and trade to the frontier west of the Mississippi.

But now I recall that yesterday 40 people got stranded on an ice shelf which detached and blew almost a mile away in the Bay of Green Bay. 5 agencies had to assist in the rescue.

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Temp sitting at -4C. Got to warm up a bit more if it is going to snow.

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warm up to snow?

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I also had a question mark in your exchange, but likely not the same reason as you.

Brenda had said the temp was 10 degrees F. And that it was good. And you agreed. Before covid I usually said my fave temp was between -10F and 10F.

And now Brenda says it is 25F.

None of that sounds cold to me.


But yes, snow is more difficult when it gets too cold. Up at cloud level is colder than ground temps, so snow falls up to about 40F. Lower temps make it harder to encounter an even colder front which causes the precip.



Today I noticed the Fox River was frozen over in Green Bay, I hadn't been paying attention. Probably not enough to walk on. Fox is one of the largest rivers in WI, and historically was a critical and crucial navigable waterway - for transport and trade to the frontier west of the Mississippi.

But now I recall that yesterday 40 people got stranded on an ice shelf which detached and blew almost a mile away in the Bay of Green Bay. 5 agencies had to assist in the rescue.

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Haven't been posting much in here bc I've been busy trying to regain strength and do ordinary household chores, and keep up with various side effects.

Yesterday I managed to walk the dog for her usual 1/2 mile, but my legs were so shaky I had to hold dear daughter's hand for the last half-block. Still unsteady on my feet.
You don't want to read about the rest of it, I'm sure. It's all pretty gross.

Then I managed to burn a pot of soup. Don't ask me how THAT happened. But I also managed to sort the mail and, over a few days, collect up ALL of the boxes and recycling and get that all binned up for today, so the livingroom no longer looks like a shipping/receiving office. I can look around and see that I accomplished something. Plus the usual kitchen cleanup.

Today. Sigh. I just want to stay in bed.

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
That's nice Brenda. Nothing but ice everywhere you look around here. -1 F tonight.

At least we'll have a few days this week that creep up just over freezing.

Pretty cold winter compared to the last one for sure. Hopefully it evens out and we don't have a nightmare February like how we wrapped it up last year though.

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So, I usually put out some valuable recyclables - clean cardboard, CRV's and such like. But someone's been thieving them out of my recycle-bin, which is in the alley. That's been kind of irritating, becasue the waste hauler makes money on recycling, and the money they don't make comes out of the fee we get charged.

But THEN, rather than return the valueless recycling to the bin, they've been leaving it out in the alley, and that makes a real mess I end up having to pick up. And that's gotten REALLY annoying! So I just now changed my pickup location from the alley to out on the street. Hopefully that very visible, very public location will slow down the thieving and mess-making.

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Temp sitting at -4C. Got to warm up a bit more if it is going to snow.

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warm up to snow?

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I also had a question mark in your exchange, but likely not the same reason as you.

Brenda had said the temp was 10 degrees F. And that it was good. And you agreed. Before covid I usually said my fave temp was between -10F and 10F.

And now Brenda says it is 25F.

None of that sounds cold to me.


But yes, snow is more difficult when it gets too cold. Up at cloud level is colder than ground temps, so snow falls up to about 40F. Lower temps make it harder to encounter an even colder front which causes the precip.



Today I noticed the Fox River was frozen over in Green Bay, I hadn't been paying attention. Probably not enough to walk on. Fox is one of the largest rivers in WI, and historically was a critical and crucial navigable waterway - for transport and trade to the frontier west of the Mississippi.

But now I recall that yesterday 40 people got stranded on an ice shelf which detached and blew almost a mile away in the Bay of Green Bay. 5 agencies had to assist in the rescue.

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I don't have a favourite temp JSF. But I am no fan of the cold now that I am getting older.

Those temps may not be cold for where you are but they are for Southern BC.

And the bit about warming up to snow was what my dad always told me and he was from cold, snowy Southern Alberta.

Too cold and the sky won't do anything, warms up and you get snow, warms up more and you get rain. Which is what we will be getting this week.

I heard about the people being rescued from the ice. Didn't say what they were doing on the ice. I guess they wanted to see if they could walk on it.

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Temp sitting at -4C. Got to warm up a bit more if it is going to snow.

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warm up to snow?

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I also had a question mark in your exchange, but likely not the same reason as you.

Brenda had said the temp was 10 degrees F. And that it was good. And you agreed. Before covid I usually said my fave temp was between -10F and 10F.

And now Brenda says it is 25F.

None of that sounds cold to me.


But yes, snow is more difficult when it gets too cold. Up at cloud level is colder than ground temps, so snow falls up to about 40F. Lower temps make it harder to encounter an even colder front which causes the precip.



Today I noticed the Fox River was frozen over in Green Bay, I hadn't been paying attention. Probably not enough to walk on. Fox is one of the largest rivers in WI, and historically was a critical and crucial navigable waterway - for transport and trade to the frontier west of the Mississippi.

But now I recall that yesterday 40 people got stranded on an ice shelf which detached and blew almost a mile away in the Bay of Green Bay. 5 agencies had to assist in the rescue.

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I don't have a favourite temp JSF. But I am no fan of the cold now that I am getting older.

Those temps may not be cold for where you are but they are for Southern BC.

And the bit about warming up to snow was what my dad always told me and he was from cold, snowy Southern Alberta.

Too cold and the sky won't do anything, warms up and you get snow, warms up more and you get rain. Which is what we will be getting this week.

I heard about the people being rescued from the ice. Didn't say what they were doing on the ice. I guess they wanted to see if they could walk on it.

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
That's nice Brenda. Nothing but ice everywhere you look around here. -1 F tonight.

At least we'll have a few days this week that creep up just over freezing.

Pretty cold winter compared to the last one for sure. Hopefully it evens out and we don't have a nightmare February like how we wrapped it up last year though.

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That's cold and no thank you on the ice. Just got rid of all that nasty ice on the sidewalks around here.

Think there was snow for my area last winter but not as much and the storms weren't as bad either.

I hope you are right. I'm just glad that my area is warming up to more normal temps.

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JSF: Was is you that posted about Boost/Ensure?

Thanks for the tip! I don't know why it took me so long to think about it, but I've had a hard time maintaining an adequate diet, and it finally occurred to me that it might help.

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Temp sitting at -4C. Got to warm up a bit more if it is going to snow.

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warm up to snow?

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I also had a question mark in your exchange, but likely not the same reason as you.

Brenda had said the temp was 10 degrees F. And that it was good. And you agreed. Before covid I usually said my fave temp was between -10F and 10F.

And now Brenda says it is 25F.

None of that sounds cold to me.


But yes, snow is more difficult when it gets too cold. Up at cloud level is colder than ground temps, so snow falls up to about 40F. Lower temps make it harder to encounter an even colder front which causes the precip.



Today I noticed the Fox River was frozen over in Green Bay, I hadn't been paying attention. Probably not enough to walk on. Fox is one of the largest rivers in WI, and historically was a critical and crucial navigable waterway - for transport and trade to the frontier west of the Mississippi.

But now I recall that yesterday 40 people got stranded on an ice shelf which detached and blew almost a mile away in the Bay of Green Bay. 5 agencies had to assist in the rescue.

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I don't have a favourite temp JSF. But I am no fan of the cold now that I am getting older.

Those temps may not be cold for where you are but they are for Southern BC.

And the bit about warming up to snow was what my dad always told me and he was from cold, snowy Southern Alberta.

Too cold and the sky won't do anything, warms up and you get snow, warms up more and you get rain. Which is what we will be getting this week.

I heard about the people being rescued from the ice. Didn't say what they were doing on the ice. I guess they wanted to see if they could walk on it.

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aaarrrrrgh. When I typed cold, my new phone changed it to good. I corrected the original post now.

The folks on the ice were Ice Fishing. Spread out over the whole shelf. Those nearest the crack were able to jump across quick, abandoning their fishing gear. But those who ran from farther found a 10 foot gap, and were stranded.

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Temp sitting at -4C. Got to warm up a bit more if it is going to snow.

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warm up to snow?

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I also had a question mark in your exchange, but likely not the same reason as you.

Brenda had said the temp was 10 degrees F. And that it was good. And you agreed. Before covid I usually said my fave temp was between -10F and 10F.

And now Brenda says it is 25F.

None of that sounds cold to me.


But yes, snow is more difficult when it gets too cold. Up at cloud level is colder than ground temps, so snow falls up to about 40F. Lower temps make it harder to encounter an even colder front which causes the precip.



Today I noticed the Fox River was frozen over in Green Bay, I hadn't been paying attention. Probably not enough to walk on. Fox is one of the largest rivers in WI, and historically was a critical and crucial navigable waterway - for transport and trade to the frontier west of the Mississippi.

But now I recall that yesterday 40 people got stranded on an ice shelf which detached and blew almost a mile away in the Bay of Green Bay. 5 agencies had to assist in the rescue.

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I don't have a favourite temp JSF. But I am no fan of the cold now that I am getting older.

Those temps may not be cold for where you are but they are for Southern BC.

And the bit about warming up to snow was what my dad always told me and he was from cold, snowy Southern Alberta.

Too cold and the sky won't do anything, warms up and you get snow, warms up more and you get rain. Which is what we will be getting this week.

I heard about the people being rescued from the ice. Didn't say what they were doing on the ice. I guess they wanted to see if they could walk on it.

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aaarrrrrgh. When I typed cold, my new phone changed it to good. I corrected the original post now.

The folks on the ice were Ice Fishing. Spread out over the whole shelf. Those nearest the crack were able to jump across quick, abandoning their fishing gear. But those who ran from farther found a 10 foot gap, and were stranded.



After my second bout with covid, I don't feel warm much anymore. I used to be a furnace all the time. No gradual change of body thermostat for me, covid sucked the warmth right out of me. I used to wear shorts all winter, down to about -10F or else when fresh snow was taller than my socks. Now wearing long pants, jeans since at least mid-Nov or so. Now that days are growing longer, temps are dropping.

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That's nice Brenda. Nothing but ice everywhere you look around here. -1 F tonight.

At least we'll have a few days this week that creep up just over freezing.

Pretty cold winter compared to the last one for sure. Hopefully it evens out and we don't have a nightmare February like how we wrapped it up last year though.

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That's cold and no thank you on the ice. Just got rid of all that nasty ice on the sidewalks around here.

Think there was snow for my area last winter but not as much and the storms weren't as bad either.

I hope you are right. I'm just glad that my area is warming up to more normal temps.

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I'm glad to hear you don't have to walk on that ice anymore.

Yesterday, my aunt and I decided that she wouldn't be bringing my grandma with her when she came by to pick up some phones and a new laptop battery I got for them. It was a good thing too, because I had no idea my entire driveway had turned into an ice rink the night before. My grandma fell trying to leave my house the day after Christmas when it was totally dry, and had I not been right behind her to catch her and have her land on top of me it might have been a nightmare. She still managed to get bruised up from that one. We don't even know what happened. I think her legs just gave out.

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Good thing about your aunt not bringing your grandmother over if there is that much ice around your place.

Your grandmother was very lucky you were walking behind when that happened. I suggest next time walk beside her and if she will allow it, take her elbow or hand then maybe you can prevent the fall before it happens. Had to do things like that with my mum once in a while.

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Nice job Six.

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