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Our God is Lord of heat and cold, and He's our Lord as well, so I know He's given some people the ability to live in cold places.  When I was younger, I didn't mind it too much either, but that time has departed!  Where we used to live up in the Sierra Nevada Mountains at 5500 feet it got quite cold, and I had to shovel snow about 60 days each year.  Couldn't do that now.  I like it right here where it's in the 50s or 60s every day - never over 100 and never under 32.  My kinda place!  May our God strengthen Judy, Ruth, and the others who live way up there in Canada.  Dear sister Jane - check into that lack of iron please!

I have a cold, itchy ears, tight chest, scratchy throat, runny nose. Pray for me is you choose. I would appreciate it.

A praise report, I have been praying for Gilbert's thyroid to be healed for 5 years, It has been healed and he thinks all by itself , but I know that God answered my prayers.

Today We just looked at the thermometer and it is
-30C.With the wind chill factor closer to -40C. 
-40C is the sane as -40F. As a result there is a snow day, no busses were running.  I don't remember that happening before, probably because I homeschooled.

I have the stupid gastric flu.  I say stupid because it doesn't seem to want to let up.  Oh well I will be over it soon.

Pat Good to see you back.  I guess I need to go further south to get away from the cold.  John is in Minisota in the cold as well.

Have to be going, Jane let us know how you are doing please, I am praying sister.  Janet have you got a product down there called ColdFx?  If so try that with your cold.

Have a good day everyone and stay warm.

Judy, I don't have a cold, I think you meant that advice for Marilyn.  Prayers for you, Marilyn, and any others who are not feeling well.

I am doing household stuff today, laundry, etc.  Exciting!  But good to stay home and get it done!  I am working tomorrow, then have another meeting of the moving committee at the care home, so it will be a full day.

We have had a strange winter thus far, not at all typical of SW Kansas.  No snow to speak of, much higher than usual temperatures.  They keep predicting frigid cold fronts, they keep missing us.  I like it!  We do need the moisture, but if no moisture, then I like the warmer temps.  I enjoy snow; just not too terribly much at one time.  (Picky!) 

I must go get more doing done.  See you later.

Woops Sorry about that Marilyn.  Try some ColdFx it does work.

Had an email from John.  The temp in Minisota was
-50F.  I thought we were cold.  Even the dogs won't go out!  They would rather squirm in their beds!    Mind you they are all short haired dogs, so we do have to watch their outside time in this cold. 

I remember a huskey we had absolutely loved the cold weather.  We would bring him in during the extreme cold only to have him scratch the door to get back out.  No way would he stay in the house during the winter.  You could see the laugh on his face when he was in it.

Here at the rec center - our landlandy promised WiFi on Monday - it is Wed and we still have not heard a word from her.  Oh, people.

One year in Minnesota, on the north end of a lake the temperature was minuse 70 windchill so the real temp was warmer but school and work did not stop so I bundled the children so much that you could barely see their eyes and drove to the bus stop & watched them get on the bus then drove to work & came home to pick them up.  We had a Norweigan Elkhoud/Husky dog and Spike loved the snow and made his own little cave.  He also loved to pull and would pull the kids on X[county skiis or sleds.  He came home with the children from school and stayed with us. 

Well, we are having Tucson temps in the low 70's and able to walk and even sit outdoors.  40's in the morning while our children deal with snow and so forth.  I need to buy a mattress pad or something - very hard mattress here & it is keeping us from getting enough sleep.  There are things we thought we packed and somehow are not here - so strange.  Tonight, I will make avacado tacos. 

best to all - I can't get online very much. 

Beef and Boards was a hoot last night.  So much laughing.  One of those plays like 'Laugh In' used to be...afterwards, you remember laughing until you were crying and your sides hurt but you can't remember what was so funny! 

My phone rang and woke me up this morning.  Tony.  So he came to see me.  Not working.  Just worked Monday.  He works for IMI...he runs a loader at a stone quarry.  IMI is at a lot of places in the Midwest.  But he is hearing stories of plant closures and such.  Worried about his job.  So if you so desire, pray a prayer or two for Tony and Charlene.  So hard to find jobs when everyone is looking AND when you are 48 years old! 

Then Tony left and Ivalou called.  Glad to know that Red Hats is cancelled for this month because there is a blanket of white outside and still coming down.  Saw my first snow plow today on my road!  Also saw a school bus on my road at 11:30am...must have let school out early. 

I am suppose to go to a Projection Team meeting at church tonight but it will probably be cancelled also.  Traffic is moving but still snowing.  Only 17 degrees!  But not much wind!

That's it!

Etta Sue You are at a balmy -12C today.  I think I will come down your way and get away from the
-40C!!!!!!  If you are acustomed to warmer temperatures then that is cold.  I DO understand.

Do we have a math genius out there?  Elizabeth is trying to figure out population density, and I have a brain block too.  Area is 4km squared and the population is 66.  How in the world do you figure that out.  4 squared is 16, but is that how you work it out?  I am a blank on this.

Well got to run, I will be back.

Hi, friends, Well, I've been resting in a chair, so decided to rest in the chair at the computer! We're really working hard to get everything moved both for my son and me. Hopefully, by next week, I can sleep as long as I'd like to catch up on my rest again!

Jane and Judy, I've made a PDF of a couple of Beth and John's pictures. Jane, I sent it to you email. And, Judy, I believe you have my email address, so please contact me and I'll send it to you, as well. It's only about 67K, so should download very quickly.

Y'all take care of yourselves. I don't like cold weather, and it's terrible that some of you are sick. Do take care of yourselves.

Gotta go - need to get "revved up" once again.

Just click on the Quote button of this post OR Copy and Paste the following and then type your answers in!  Lots of fun to get to know how we all think and live and what we do in our lives.


1. Do you have a wish list? What's on it? 

2. What room are you in right now?

3. Are you afraid of spiders? 

4. How many times did you move before you were 20? 

5. Did you grow up with pets?

6. What color is your car? 

7. What did you have for dinner last night? 

8. What's for breakfast today? 

9. Catsup/ketchup or mustard?

Hi everyone.  I started to read the postings here this morning but didn't finish before it was time to leave for Bible Study at the church.  When that was finished we went to Dunkin Donut for an hour and then 8 of us went next door to the restaurant and had lunch.  I had a nice plate lunch so won't be eating dinner this evening.  We came home and decided it was nap time.  That was my exciting day.  This evening I have choir practice. 

It is current 48 degrees here and nice and sunny.  We are suppose to be very cold, perhaps into the single digits on the weekend.  I feel for you all experiencing such cold weather and snow.

Marilyn, when you connect your computer to a router via an ethernet cable you should instantly have Internet and you don't need to notify anyone.  It is really the same as using wireless except you are connected by a wire. 

Sorry to read of several of you not feeling well and hope this will be short-lived for you.

Ruth Ann, thanks for providing a way for others to see the pictures of Beth and John.  Hope the moving goes well.

Judy, I am not strong in math but wouldn't you simply divide 66 by 16? 

Etta Sue, sounds like a good day to stay inside up your way.  It looks like your temperatures are declining today.

Carol, I think you got to Arizona at just the right time.  Hope you get the Wi-Fi connection shortly.

Quote from: Etta Sue on January 14, 2009, 01:08:59 PM

My phone rang and woke me up this morning.  Tony.  So he came to see me.  Not working.  Just worked Monday.  He works for IMI...he runs a loader at a stone quarry.  IMI is at a lot of places in the Midwest.  But he is hearing stories of plant closures and such.  Worried about his job.  So if you so desire, pray a prayer or two for Tony and Charlene.  So hard to find jobs when everyone is looking AND when you are 48 years old!  

My daughter is 48, too, and her friend, Will, will soon be 49 ... this is their very deep concern as well.  Will is constantly working at trying to work ... trouble is that when he does get a job, he has to pay his workers and that doesn't leave anything for his own bills -- which continue to pile up and up and up .... Dot says he is really not able to work manual labor -- construction -- because of his physical problems, but he keeps trying anyway because of family concerns and rising debt.  We're praying his app for SSI gets approved soon and/or that he can get the type of desk job he is trained for. 

This economy crisis is really tough on everyone.   

By the way, I called the doctor this morning and I have an appointment for 8:45 next Wednesday.  We'll see ......

Next, I need to see about getting help for my little Neon.  It has a slow oil leak around the valve cover gasket and the "check engine" light is on more than it's off.  Each time I get the oil changed they tell me about it and that the oil guage shows low...  BUT  I need my car for transportation and if I take it in and have to leave it --- how will I get home?  Minor delemna, true, but one I have to consider. 

1. Do you have a wish list? What's on it?  At this point a newer vehicle that will start without a struggle

2. What room are you in right now? Kitchen

3. Are you afraid of spiders?  No not afraid, but I dislike them.  We live in an old farmhouse.

4. How many times did you move before you were 20?  2 times

5. Did you grow up with pets? yes cats and a dog

6. What color is your car?  drown when it is clean white with salt otherwise!

7. What did you have for dinner last night?  a tuna dish

8. What's for breakfast today?  a bagel

9. Catsup/ketchup or mustard? Ketchup

Jane I am glad you called the Doctor.  Also many garages have a shuttle service that will take you home and pick you up when you leave your car for repairs.  At least here in Canada they do.  Check that out as well.  YOu may find that is the solution to your delemna. 

1. Do you have a wish list? What's on it?

~I'd love to have a macro lens.

2. What room are you in right now?

~I'm in the apartment in the Falls Church house where our computers are when we're here.

3. Are you afraid of spiders? 

~     I really don't like them near me but I enjoy taking photos of them.

4. How many times did you move before you were 20?

~ 1 time from the small house on the property to the bigger one that Dad built at the front of the property--about 35 feet away! 

5. Did you grow up with pets?

~Yes...  Dogs, chickens, rabbits, and cats (and we kept bees)

6. What color is your car? 

~Bright blue

7. What did you have for dinner last night? 

~Veggie soup made by Paul

8. What's for breakfast today? 

~Good old fashioned porridge

9. Catsup/ketchup or mustard?

~Mustard

Judy, as far as I can see, you do exactly what Larry said - divide 66 by 16.  That gives you the number per square kilometer.

1. Do you have a wish list? What's on it?  Good, continuing health

2. What room are you in right now? Office

3. Are you afraid of spiders?  No

4. How many times did you move before you were 20?  five times

5. Did you grow up with pets? Cats

6. What color is your car?  dark blue

7. What did you have for dinner last night?  Beans w/veggies & chicken

8. What's for breakfast today?  Cold cereal

9. Catsup/ketchup or mustard? No

Thank you for the math help.  Much appreciated.  Elizabeth says thank you as well.

Hi everyone.  It continues to get colder here and we are at 34 degrees this morning and the high is suppose to be 39 degrees.  Fortunately, after coffee this morning I only have to get out to go to the mailbox at the street this afternoon.  There is nothing else on my agenda of which I am aware.

Our daughter completed her three day training yesterday at the IRS and then they immediately put all of the newly trained employees on furlough.  The work just hasn't come in yet and they will be called to work when it has.  With this severe cold she was glad to be able to stay in her building for the next couple of days although she does have a doctor's appointment today at Grady to see her cardiologist so will be out around noontime.  She stopped at Krogers last evening after work and then decided rather than get back on another bus for the few blocks to her apartment she would just make the trip in the powerchair.  Unfortunately the sidewalks are not in good shape and at one point her chair got stuck and she had to get up and get it back on the good area of the walk.  She said she wasn't doing that again.

Jane, there are so many people struggling now with jobs eliminated.  I am very thankful to be retired and not have to face that possibility.  However, our son is still vulnerable to this concern as his company was having another big layoff and it may have already occurred.  He thought he would get by this one.  He is in the Human Resources department and does the payroll plus a lot of other duties.

1. Do you have a wish list? What's on it?  Just to take each day as it comes and to enjoy every moment that God allows me in this life.

2. What room are you in right now? Family room in my easychair using my laptop.

3. Are you afraid of spiders?  No, but I don't like them.

4. How many times did you move before you were 20?  two times

5. Did you grow up with pets? Cats and dogs on the farm.  All of these were outside pets.

6. What color is your car?  One is silver and one is black

7. What did you have for dinner last night?  Had a big lunch of meatloaf, hash browns, green beans and a dinner roll.  Therefore, I didn't need any supper although had a Weight Watcher's Fudge Bar after coming home from choir practice.

8. What's for breakfast today?  My usual banana

9. Catsup/ketchup or mustard? I like most of these but probably ketchup the most.

Good Morning folks.  It is a brrrr cold morning her as we are still in a cold snap.  -40C this morning, and it has only gone up to -30C.  Kass has kept the fire going, but we are going to have to let it die down as there is too much ash in the bottom to get anygood heat out of it.  That means in this cold the house will really cool down.

The dogs get frostbite on their paws.  We are going to have to get them some dog boots to protect that.

Elizabeth and I have been working on a Geography project.  Me doing the typing and her telling me what to type.  It is finally done.  Yesterday the program froze up and we lost pages.  It took time to get back what we lost.  Strange thing is we were saving as we went.

Bye till later

1. Do you have a wish list? What's on it?  The health of my family.

2. What room are you in right now?   Kitchen

3. Are you afraid of spiders?  Only if they are really big!

4. How many times did you move before you were 20?  3

5. Did you grow up with pets?  Dogs

6. What color is your car?   White, when its clean!

7. What did you have for dinner last night?  Hawaiian Chicken with rice

8. What's for breakfast today?   Ramen noodles

9. Catsup/ketchup or mustard?   neither one  I like Mayo!




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1. Do you have a wish list? What's on it? Better health and enough money for the rest of my life here on earth.

2. What room are you in right now?  Living room with the laptop

3. Are you afraid of spiders? Not afraid when I see one but I don't ignore it.  Afraid when I don't GET it and then think it is crawling on ME.

4. How many times did you move before you were 20? 8 times!  I didn't realize that until I counted.  But only 3 times in the next 46 years.

5. Did you grow up with pets?  Yes, cats and dogs

6. What color is your car? Metallic Tropical Teal  (that's dark blue, really)

7. What did you have for dinner last night? Pizza and Diet Dr. Pepper

8. What's for breakfast today?  Cereal, skim milk, juice

9. Catsup/ketchup or mustard?  Both

Well it has warmed up!  To -23C.  Brrrr.

The sun is shining, and the shadows are beautiful.  you can even see the smoke rising out of the chimney.  I am praying for a cloudy night tonight.

What is your opinion on Global Warming?  I have been told these extreme cold days are the result of Global Warming!  Any opinions out there?

We didn't have our projection team meeting last night.  It took the minister's wife over an hour and a half to get home from Indy and she rides the bus most of the way! 

I didn't get up until around 9am.  Got my shower taken and while I was showering I thought, I think I will go to WalMart when my hair gets dry.  I gathered my trash, ate breakfast, washed dishes, read my devotions and turned on the laptop.  WeatherBug came on and it was -4°!!!  That was a surprise since it is so bright and sunny.  But I didn't even want to walk my trash to Kaye Don's driveway!! 

Ivalou called and said she had to go to the drug store...took the last out of one of her pills today.  She asked me if I had taken my trash and I said no but it was ready.  She said she would drive over and get my trash and leave the trash at Kaye Don's.  So I did bundle up and shovel off the deck and stepping stones...hate to walk on the snow and then you can't get the snow off.  It really wasn't bad out there.  Very little wind today!  But I am not going anywhere today!  Not necessary!

My solar heat is going!!!  Hurray!  JudyB, you are still colder than here but it is so cold here!!!!  Not used to this!!

I'll just stay in and practice on Sunday Plus and watch some TV.

I like Diet Dr. Pepper too, Etta Sue!

Seems as if North Bay is 2 degrees colder than you, Judy!  (According to your temperature thingy!)

This is some winter!!!

Feeling much better today, I went to the Co-op yesterday to get some fresh organic Ginger and some local Wild Flower Honey, came home  made some ginger tea with honey and lemon, mixed up a  small jar of  equal amounts of Organic Apple Cider vinegar and honey to take for the cold remedy, (1 Tbls. as needed) the result  is I slept very well last night able to breathe normally and feeling better today.

Happy is at the Vet getting his paw taken care of. I am taking Bebe with me to work today and  to pick up my food box. She is being my special buddy today. I even took her along when I took happy to the vet.
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1. Do you have a wish list? What's on it? Good health and long life for myself and family

2. What room are you in right now?  Living room

3. Are you afraid of spiders? No

4. How many times did you move before you were 20? 10

5. Did you grow up with pets?  Yes, cats and dogs

6. What color is your car? Medium Chevy Blue

7. What did you have for dinner last night? Big green salad with tuna, yogurt, milk

8. What's for breakfast today?  Egg and cheese sandwich on toast and coffee

9. Catsup/ketchup or mustard?  Both

Pat that could be correct, our thermometer has the sun on it right now.  It does make a difference.  Also the North Bay temperature is taken at the airport.

It is funny John looks at a tea towel I have hanging on the wall to see if the furnace is going, I look outside to see if the smoke is coming out of the chimney. Different strokes for different folks.

  Good afternoon:    We must all remember that this is winter and as my hair dresser says what else can we expect.  Yesterday we went to the local Tim Horton's for early morning coffee, since retirement I sure enjoy not having to be up and about early but I even suggested setting the alarm - it didn't happen. After leaving there I went to my hair dresser followed with a short trip to the grocery store. 

Today I am doing the inside chores and when complete you feel a burden has been lifted and later I will be sitting doing my find a word puzzle from last Saturday's paper. 

Now to finish my computer stuff.         Ruth 

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1. Do you have a wish list? What's on it?  Not really.

2. What room are you in right now?  Back Bedroom

3. Are you afraid of spiders? No

4. How many times did you move before you were 20?   2

5. Did you grow up with pets?  Yes I lived on a farm    cows horses chickens pigs dog cats and more

6. What color is your car?  a very light green

7. What did you have for dinner last night?  roast pork with veg. along with a mixed fruit dessert

8. What's for breakfast today?  coffee, toast, grapefruit
9. Catsup/ketchup or mustard? 
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Good day. It is cold here today about a -25 with wind factor. BRR
Last night our winds was about 128 km/h.
Hopefully it will start to get a little warmer soon.

1. Do you have a wish list? What's on it?  Yes to see all my family saved.

2. What room are you in right now? family Room

3. Are you afraid of spiders? Yes!!!!!!

4. How many times did you move before you were 20? none

5. Did you grow up with pets? no

6. What color is your car? blue

7. What did you have for dinner last night? Roast meat sandwich with Fries

8. What's for breakfast today?  Cereal and a banana, tea

9. Catsup/ketchup or mustard? All three