HAPPY HOMECOMING...NOT!!!
WOW, WHAT A HOMECOMING!! WE HAD A MAJOR STORM WHILE WE WERE AWAY AND THEN ANOTHER 6 INCHES AND FINALLY YESTERDAYS STORM. YESTERDAY WAS REALLY A BIGGY IT DUMPED ABOUT 12 OR SO INCHES. IT JUST KEEPS COMING. SOON WE WILL RUN OUT OF SPACE TO PUT IT!! IT SURE MADE ME MISS AND APPRECIATE OR LOVELY VACATION IN THE SUN.
OF COURSE, NOT ONLY DID WE COME HOME TO LOADS OF SNOW BUT OUR DRIVEWAY WAS NOT WELL PLOWED. I HAD MY SANDALS ON, YEAH, I KNOW DUMBASS. BUT I USEALLY HAVE MY BOOTS IN THE CAR AND IN ALL THE RUSH AND EXCITEMENT I FORGOT. SO..HERE I AM AT 4:00 IN THE MORNING, EXHAUSTED FROM 15 HOURS OF TRAVELING AND I HAVE TO GET OUT IN A SNOWBANK!! NOW THST WAS A REAL WAKEUP CALL. IT TOOK ME HOURS TO GET MY TOOTIES WARM.
WE WERE UP BY 7:00 A.M. BECAUSE THERE WAS LOTS TO DO AND DEAL WITH. JUST BEFORE WE WENT AWAY WE HAD OUR FURNACE MAN IN TO CLEAN THE FURNACE AND CHECK IT OVER AND GIVE OUR OIL FIRED HOTWATER HEATER A GOING OVER. WELL, OUR DAUGTHER INFORMS US THAT WE HAVE NOT HAD HOT WATER SINCE SATURDAY. MY BROTHER CAME IN AND HAD A LOOK AT IT BUT COULD NOT FIND THE PROBLEM. SO..I THINK, GREAT JUST WHAT I NEED NO HOT WATER TO WASH. THE DISHES WERE DIRTY..YUCK!! AND, OF COURSE, I AM SILENTLY THINKING ABOUT HOW MUCH A NEW ONES WILL COST. GLASS HALF EMPTY MENTALITY!! WELL, THE GUY CAME AND IT WAS ONLY A MINOR PROBLEM AND IT WAS FIXED WITH LITTLE EFFORT AND COST. PRAISE GOD!!
AS USUAL, HUBBY WAS OUT BRIGHT AND EARLY USING OUR SNOWBLOWER TO CLEAN UP THE TWO DRIVEWAYS AND PUT PATHS THROUGH THE BACKYARD FOR THE DOGS. WELL, GUESS WHAT?? THE FREAKING THING DECIDES THAT WITH A MAJOR STORM COMING IT WANTS A VACATION AND BREAKS DOWN!! NOW IN ITS DEFENSE IT IS A REAL DINOSAUR BUT IT HAS BEEN A GREAT MACHINE, OWES US NOTHING. AGAIN...HOW MUCH IS THIS GOING TO COST AND DO WE NEED TO REPLACE IT? WELL, MY MECHANICALLY INCLINED HUBBY TAKES IT APART AND DISCOVERS IT IS ONLY THE BELT. HE REPLACED IT FOR $22. YEAH, THE GOOD LORD WAS SMILING ON ME!!
THEN IT WAS TIME FOR ME TO GET GROCERIES AS THE CUPBOARD WAS PRETTY BARE. ALSO I WAS GETTING ALL HEALTHY STUFF AS BOTH HUBBY AND I ARE ON A MAJOR, AND I MEAN INTENSE DIET. I NEED TO LOOSE A TON. WELL, THAT IS A BNIT OF AN EXAGGERATION BUT I DO NEED TO LOOSE MORE THAN I HAVE HAD TO IN A LONG.....TIME. I ALSO HAD TO GET MY PUPPIES FROM MY GIRLFRIEND.
WELL, I HAVE TO CLOSE FOR NOW AS I AM TAKING ONE OF MY DOGS TO THE GROOMERS. I WILL FILL YOU IN ON MY VACATION IN MY NEXT JOURNAL. BE WELL, MY FRIENDS AND I WILL TRY TO CATCH UP WITH SOME JOURNSLS LATER.
OF COURSE, NOT ONLY DID WE COME HOME TO LOADS OF SNOW BUT OUR DRIVEWAY WAS NOT WELL PLOWED. I HAD MY SANDALS ON, YEAH, I KNOW DUMBASS. BUT I USEALLY HAVE MY BOOTS IN THE CAR AND IN ALL THE RUSH AND EXCITEMENT I FORGOT. SO..HERE I AM AT 4:00 IN THE MORNING, EXHAUSTED FROM 15 HOURS OF TRAVELING AND I HAVE TO GET OUT IN A SNOWBANK!! NOW THST WAS A REAL WAKEUP CALL. IT TOOK ME HOURS TO GET MY TOOTIES WARM.
WE WERE UP BY 7:00 A.M. BECAUSE THERE WAS LOTS TO DO AND DEAL WITH. JUST BEFORE WE WENT AWAY WE HAD OUR FURNACE MAN IN TO CLEAN THE FURNACE AND CHECK IT OVER AND GIVE OUR OIL FIRED HOTWATER HEATER A GOING OVER. WELL, OUR DAUGTHER INFORMS US THAT WE HAVE NOT HAD HOT WATER SINCE SATURDAY. MY BROTHER CAME IN AND HAD A LOOK AT IT BUT COULD NOT FIND THE PROBLEM. SO..I THINK, GREAT JUST WHAT I NEED NO HOT WATER TO WASH. THE DISHES WERE DIRTY..YUCK!! AND, OF COURSE, I AM SILENTLY THINKING ABOUT HOW MUCH A NEW ONES WILL COST. GLASS HALF EMPTY MENTALITY!! WELL, THE GUY CAME AND IT WAS ONLY A MINOR PROBLEM AND IT WAS FIXED WITH LITTLE EFFORT AND COST. PRAISE GOD!!
AS USUAL, HUBBY WAS OUT BRIGHT AND EARLY USING OUR SNOWBLOWER TO CLEAN UP THE TWO DRIVEWAYS AND PUT PATHS THROUGH THE BACKYARD FOR THE DOGS. WELL, GUESS WHAT?? THE FREAKING THING DECIDES THAT WITH A MAJOR STORM COMING IT WANTS A VACATION AND BREAKS DOWN!! NOW IN ITS DEFENSE IT IS A REAL DINOSAUR BUT IT HAS BEEN A GREAT MACHINE, OWES US NOTHING. AGAIN...HOW MUCH IS THIS GOING TO COST AND DO WE NEED TO REPLACE IT? WELL, MY MECHANICALLY INCLINED HUBBY TAKES IT APART AND DISCOVERS IT IS ONLY THE BELT. HE REPLACED IT FOR $22. YEAH, THE GOOD LORD WAS SMILING ON ME!!
THEN IT WAS TIME FOR ME TO GET GROCERIES AS THE CUPBOARD WAS PRETTY BARE. ALSO I WAS GETTING ALL HEALTHY STUFF AS BOTH HUBBY AND I ARE ON A MAJOR, AND I MEAN INTENSE DIET. I NEED TO LOOSE A TON. WELL, THAT IS A BNIT OF AN EXAGGERATION BUT I DO NEED TO LOOSE MORE THAN I HAVE HAD TO IN A LONG.....TIME. I ALSO HAD TO GET MY PUPPIES FROM MY GIRLFRIEND.
WELL, I HAVE TO CLOSE FOR NOW AS I AM TAKING ONE OF MY DOGS TO THE GROOMERS. I WILL FILL YOU IN ON MY VACATION IN MY NEXT JOURNAL. BE WELL, MY FRIENDS AND I WILL TRY TO CATCH UP WITH SOME JOURNSLS LATER.
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OH MY, YOUR HOUSE SOUNDS LIKE MY HOUSE. IT HAS BEEN SNOWING STEADILY FOR NEARLY THREE DAYS NOW. YESTERDAY I SPENT FOUR AND A HALF HOURS WITH MY SNOW SCOOP CLEARNING THE NEW DRIVE AND THE PARKING AREA BY THE HOUSE.
TODAY WAS MY HUGE FIRST OF THE MONTH SHOPPING DAY. YEAH, BY THE TIME I REACHED THE TOP OF THE DRIVEWAY WE HAD ABOUT TWO NEW INCHES OF SNOW WHERE I\'D ALREADY SCOOPED.
OH WELL, WINTER GOT HERE (SHE HAD TO DIG OUT AT HER PLACE) THEN SHE HAD TO DIG OUT AND SPREAD ASH TO GET OUT OF HERE. IT SNOWED THE WHOLE TIME WE WERE SHOPPING AND WHEN HER BOYFRIEND BROUGHT ME HOME (SHE HAD TO GO TO WORK) HE HAD TO DO SOME SHOVELING AND ASHING TO GET OUT. BUT, I DO HAVE FOOD FOR DOGS, CATS, BIRDS AND PEOPLE. I DO NOT HAVE TO HAVE THE DRIVE CLEARED AGAIN TIL TUESDAY WHEN WE ARE SUPPOSED TO GET PROPANE AGAIN AND OH YES, IT IS STILL SNOWING. LAST TIME I COULD SEE VISIBILITY WAS DOWN TO SEVERAL HUNDRED FEET. BUT HEY, IT\'S NOT COLD ;-)
Wrote a comment and lost it..Hate when that happens. Nice home coming. Lots of snow and broken things. Just what you didn\'t need. Good thing Hubby is handy. We got 13 inches. You get much more than that and more than that. Our drive is to big for shoveling or blowing, we just have a guy come and plow. I made him wait till it was over. Ruby just plowed her own path. Our electric went and just as Hubby was setting up the generator it came back on. We are going to have one of those plugs put on the electric meter so you just have to plug it in and it runs the whole house. Hubby is a plumber so we may need help with that and since he not much for asking for help it may be a real task. People are ridiculous. They rush to the store and buy it out like a nuclear bomb was coming. I\'m with you on the shopping tomorrow, yuck, I am not much at going to the store. Need to lose 10 lbs. I tried the w.w. point plus. way to much food for me. I am going to go back to the old way. The new one does not have a slide rule and you are aloud to many points and 49 free ones. Just used to the old way, never did like change. Not to say it won\'t work for others. I do hear good reviews. To make it easier just delete my old messages if there are any. Now I hope you break downs are over. Hate to say I\'ll bet you miss the sun. Sure you had a blast. Welcome home. Naomi xo