Flinging Rants To See If They'll Stick

[mam521 2,844]

14 hours ago, Ontarkie said:

I do not complain of the heat here, well I did when the a/c went out. But all and all I prefer summer. I do not like being cold. I was up in Canada before Christmas. I left Arkansas the day after TG and when I arrived in Chicago I was ready to come back home. While up in Canada it dropped to -40. I do not ever miss those days. 

I normally only visit in the summer. But my dad needed me so I went. 

I don't care for -40, either.  That said, without any wind, it's doable.  If there's even a breath of air, it's COLD.  I grew up in Saskatchewan - cold, dry and normally windy.  

 

@TBoneTX you ready for Saturday's dip into the 20's?  We should have our greenhouse arriving today.  We'll move the sensitive plants into it with C9 incandescent lights for some heat.  We just can't move everything into the garage - it takes up too much room and, well, we have ended up with some critters like the little green anoles that Monster would eat.  Best if they just go hang out in the greenhouse in their potted fern home.  

[yuna628 9,959]

A glorious 23 degrees today, snow still on the ground, and rumors that "the big one" is coming for the weekend. 😆

 

Last night was supposed to be a nice evening with movie watching. Instead I noticed that there was water coming into the basement and above in the ceiling a suspicious green stain of something leaking on the copper pipes. Above is where the kitchen sink sits, so I go up there and open the cabinet and.... we've got a problem because everything under there is now 'swimming' and the gunky water is just draining along the copper piping under the floor boards. I know this stupid house isn't built to code and we've had multiple leaks there before. I get everything cleaned out under there but the space is so tight my husband is contorting himself in all sorts of positions, and me with flashlights to see what's going on. The leak seems to be coming internally from inside the faucet itself or at least somewhere up where the not to code copper pipes (you're supposed to have those more silver coated flexible pipes now) run up into the faucet. Anyway we're both up in there struggling with it when BAM! One of the heavy metal flashlights he'd clamped to the cabinet drops and conks me straight in the skull. Oh man, there was blood and dizziness, and did I see stars.

 

I was done after that. Shut the water off for the night and I suppose we'll have to take a trip over to hardware and see what we can buy to replace everything. 

[Crazy Cat 46,098]

35 minutes ago, yuna628 said:

and rumors that "the big one" is coming for the weekend.

We are bracing for it here in Dallas.

[Neonred 4,114]

1 hour ago, yuna628 said:

 and rumors that "the big one" is coming for the weekend. 😆

 

I just checked here and will reach into the low 80's this weekend with lows in the mid 60's.

 

Sorry....

[Ontarkie 15,105]

Completely forgot to say Happy birthday Mini-B. I'm glad he had a good birthday weekend.

[Ban Hammer 14,900]

at 0800 this saturday, the temp will be -2.
any chance we can get a florida dentist to fly to kc?