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When people don't proof-read their thread titles, unintended humor can result. There is a thread in Great Debates entitled "Should pit bull owners be held fully responsible if they attack innocent people?"
When people don't proof-read their thread titles, unintended humor can result. There is a thread in Great Debates entitled "Should pit bull owners be held fully responsible if they attack innocent people?"
Almost as bad as "Running down the street the man's hat flew off."
Saturday night I noticed the temp in the NY house was 50 degrees instead the always 55, oh-oh! We called the heating/plumbing company we have a contract with on Sunday morning. They said the temp was going to be in the high 40's and they would be there first thing Monday morning, avoiding the call out rate being charged. Our house got to 49 degrees overnight and as promised they came in the early a.m. and replaced a thermo coupler and controller/relay and the heat is back on!
When the repairman was finished at our house he called to discuss what he found with DH. DH asked him if he could do a favor and reboot our one security camera at the front door (unplug, count to 10, plug in again) thinking he was inside the house. The guy told him he was in his van outside our house but no problem, in he went and did it. Nice guy!
I was stressing about it yesterday morning. We went kayaking and for a bike ride later and it was hard to stay worked up over it while being active in warm temps with blue skies. It was a good way to regain perspective.
I'm debating to just drain down everything when we leave for good. It will take a year or more to sell the place, nothing was on when we bought it and it made no difference.
Enjoy the warmth, the wind is howling (I am still amazed the power is still on) as the deep freeze moves in. It was 38F yesterday, it's 18F now.
I've owned a vacation home in Creede, Colorado since 1965 when I still lived in Illinois. All I've ever done for winterization is drain the pipes and add antifreeze that collects at elbows that have water in them. I did it once myself, then paid a plumber to do it. It's cheap.
Summers in Creede are extraordinary. Days over 75 are rare. Mineral County is still Republican (barely), but the lawmakers are in Denver.
When we had three cats who didn't mind travel and two dogs who were very furry we spent Christmas there on three occasions. You think you have snow and cold in upstate New York? Ho-ho! Christmas was great there, but then we got Domino who got sick and lost both bladder and bowel control at the mere thought of a car. So no more Creede Christmases.
Creede, one of the toughest towns in the West, was the site of Bob Ford's Tent Saloon. You may remember Bob as, ''the dirty little coward who shot Mr. Howard has laid Jesse James in his grave.'' I've read several accounts of Bob Ford's murder. They differ so much that they read like different incidents.
I'm debating to just drain down everything when we leave for good. It will take a year or more to sell the place, nothing was on when we bought it and it made no difference.
Enjoy the warmth, the wind is howling (I am still amazed the power is still on) as the deep freeze moves in. It was 38F yesterday, it's 18F now.
We have a wifi thermostat that I check daily, so we have Internet on but it's cheaper than a house watcher. We have great neighbors that text or email. One texted that the heating guy's truck was there this morning, they keep us in the loop.
We have hot water radiator heat (house is circa 1876), we could have the system drained and the water replaced with antifreeze with a back flow preventer put on. We have ceramic tile floors in some areas and we were told they may pop/buckle with extreme temps with no heat in the house. I'm not crazy about paying a heating bill, but am also not comfortable with a house with no heat for the 8 months we're gone when six of them require heat.
I am enjoying the warmth and appreciating it here. The cold front will affect us on Wednesday with an overnight low of 43 which beats the 4 degrees expected in our part of NY. We haven't turned the heat on here yet, the sun brings the temp up into the 70's in the house during the day after colder nights.
Well, jean_ji and others in the South, be grateful! It is so bitter cold here that even the dogs, who love the cold, don't want to go out. They do their business and scurry back in. And it's expected to get even colder, though no snow...but ice. I'm prepared for the inevitable power outage. I'm so happy for in_newengland, our mod, being on a tropical cruise this week.
"A generational divide over the very meaning of “television” has emerged. For high school students, it may mean YouTube. For millennials: Netflix. For mom and dad: perhaps the networks, the Weather Channel and maybe PBS.
On Monday, some big cable names moved to meet this generational schism. In a partnership with Dish, 12 major cable stations including the Food Network, CNN and, crucially, ESPN, will now stream their programs on a $20-per-month service called Sling TV. This is big news for many rabid sports fans who pay as much as $90 per month for a bunch of cable stations when all they really want is ESPN. They will now be able to watch sports on anything from an iPad to a smartphone — without paying cable companies such as Comcast and Verizon FIOS for television service...."
Yeah, because all of us "old people" know NOTHING AT ALL about technology! LOL!
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good thing I got more gas for the generator!
