@PKM0515 I am just going to try to focus on this beautiful flower which is blooming right now and try not to think about the ice fog currently coating everything. more. again. more.

A new week, a fresh start! Have a lovely day!

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@77tes

It's so funny you mentioned that about the printer! I actually went out Sunday and purchased a small, black and white, HP LaserJet printer.

How is everybody doing with their February goals?

For some reason, I'm getting an error message trying to post my "star chart" so for
February 15:

Medicine - Yay!
Water - I can't remember!

@SummerSkier SO glad to hear from you after reading your message on the feed yesterday. I was worried about you. 40’s is even worse than 50 🥶! It’s good you can still cook. When we don’t have power I don’t know how many times I think “well I know I can’t use the stove...but I could make microwave popcorn “🙄 Not! Sometimes warming up in the car for awhile is an option. We just hit 0 from our morning -18 and it’s all downhill from here. We’ve been warned they might do a rolling blackout for 2 days now but so far so good. I hope Bandit is holding up well. Keep us posted!

@77tes

No problem! It's hard to keep up with the activity in this thread, which is a good thing.

Another good day yesterday as far as medicine-taking and water-drinking.

@SummerSkier

I hope you haven't turned into an icicle!

Hi there! New here! My goal this month is 7,500 steps each day. I will check my steps at 7 pm each night after dinner dishes are done and if I am short of my goal, I will hop on the treadmill and watch a little TV while I walk until I meet my goal 😊

@SummerSkier Be really really careful on that ice especially when it's covered with snow.

nebslp wrote: »

@SummerSkier Be really really careful on that ice especially when it's covered with snow.

Hi everyone 👋. So excited to be here.

This february, when I finish working, I will watch a tv show while stationary biking for 3 mins.

When I finish I will reward myself by actually getting off the bike after 3 mins instead of pushing myself to do more 🙂

I am here but yesterday was pretty ugly and bleak and it felt like with not only the power not even trying to come on and the water pressure dropping that the entire infrastructure was going to fail like dominoes. I also woke up with a BAD migraine and tried to get thru it with some oatmeal and a pain pill. Unfortunately I think it was Carbon Monoxide poisoning and I ended up throwing everything up an hour later in spite of best efforts. Been probably 20 years since I puked. Anyway, now the mere thought of cooked oatmeal make me a little nauseous. I hate that but that's how those things go with me.

Today we had a blip of power at 6:15 a for 15 seconds. The first sign of life since 4 am Monday. It was gone but it woke me up and I felt a little stir of encouragement. Then at 8:15 it came back on for 15 minutes! WOW that was a tease. But at 9 am it came back and knock on wood it is still on 6.5 hrs later. There are many still without but a neighbor catty corner from me NEVER lost power. How strange. And of course the water is still out and we are under a boil water notice also. But one thing at a time.

I did get WIFI and computers back and Backup battery UPS are charging themselves up after expiring on Monday. I think my pipes are in the clear but we won't know until we thaw more. The roads are trash. it did get up to 32 and with almost sun there is a lot of melting and huge snow and icicle slides off the trees and roof s. I was laughing on my walk because when I lived in Md it was mandatory for people to clear their sidewalks. We don't even have snow tools to do it here~! Very dangerous out walking so I used my ski poles and just meandered with every step very focused to keep off the ice or to find the more snowy traction portions.

My hot hand warmers were a blessing as were the rechargeable flashlight and the little temp/time battery gages. I probably would not have made it if not for the gas range. But now I need CO monitors because I think some of my headaches in the morning might be from the furnace... YIKES! I have learned a lot and altho I tried to prepare as best I could when we saw the forecast, it was a LOT worse than I ever thought it could get and in the evenings after it got dark it was pretty terrifying and lonely.

Thank goodness my horse was taken care of and I still can't get to the barn but maybe tomorrow. fingers crossed!

Summerreportingin

So it is interesting for me to get a new perspective on things. A lot of the "habits" I have put on here are completely out the window when you are just working to survive and keep everything going. Things are starting to melt and now we have Icicle warnings! Lol. It is true tho. quite dangerous. We have power but still no water so rushing around this morning to collect a lot of snow and ice to use for rinsing things and the toilets.

So grateful the barn did not lose power and Bandit has a heated water bucket.... small things.

Now to start sorting out all those photos.... ROTFLOL..

summer

I’m reading Atomic Habits and taking copious notes🤓. Just on chapter 2 and am rethinking how I make goals and understanding why they fall by the wayside so quickly. Oatmeal again today and it was super yummy today. Guess I found the right combination this time.

@MadisonMolly2017 Oh that is hilarious! It's not your fault. You were just an inch too short to see what was back there!!!! Now if only the @SummerSkier sock would turn up it would be all good

MadisonMolly2017 wrote: »

And, I “found” my old iron... 🤣
My new organizing mantra, “I shall never place two different items one behind the other on a deep shelf without labeling the shell with at least the name of the item in back! Heehee!

Maddie is NOT short. At least in my mind she is tall and svelte. But SO happy you have found the iron. The sock probably has a MILLION other items which have joined it since the last week. It's really hard when you are fumpbling around in the dark with a flashlight to keep track of anything.

@77tes you are SO right. I remember your one word goal and that was an amazing tiny habit.

@nebslp you and the rest are inspiring me to perhaps read that book. No oatmeal for me. lol. It's All ok tho.

@PKM0515 sorry for the late response but we have no snow plows here and even if we did it would not have helped. They do try to treat the roads before an "event" but this one started with 1/2 in of ICE. And then 6 inches of snow and then because we needed a sandwich another 1/2 inch of thick ice. So when you walked you had to punch thru the ice on top to get to the snow. and the temps stayed below 10 for 2 days. Some places almost close to 0 with I don't want to think about wind chill. Even with 2 days where the temp got over 32 and yesterday close to 40 for a few hours I could see just HOW much ice and snow was on the road. No treatment would have helped. Yesterday on my drive to the barn the roads were mostly clear if you stayed in the middle lane but there was still a lot melting onto the road so overnight I am sure that turned to black ice with another hard freeze.