The Laurin I knew was a friend of my father's and they were in the gun club together.
Now that right there is FUNNY!
Hey I'm the one that doesn't own any capri pants.
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Hey I'm the one that doesn't own any capri pants.
I have a niece, Lauren, so I can see where he might think that. In fact, when I was growing up I knew a few males named Loren and Laurin, but Lauren was not popular (they used Laura back then) until Ralph Lauren and all those girlie patterns started showing up
Loren is completely different from Laurin, one is pronounced Low-ren as in Lorenzo and the other is Law-rin as in Lawrence, which is why I wanted to know how he spelled his name so I could "pronounce" it when I read it.
Of course, if you are from the south all bets are off on how they pronounce it, just like everything else (had to, sorry!)
GOOD MORNING REOvillians! I hope KAREN got thawed out okay to get to work! And ALICE is feeling less pressure and more happy, and everyone else stays warm and safe.
I put a throw rug over my windshield yesterday. So this morning just peeled it off and clean windshield! Had to scrape ice off some windows. Ran the van awhile and melted the rest off. I think I am ready for leaving later.
No sunshine here today. At least not this morning.
Not looking forward to work. But I know it needs to be done.
That is a great tip for those of us who are ice challenged! We never did get snow, just cold and a little misty sleet that you could see in the air.
I do have a stupid Val story though for everyone's Monday morning entertainment...
DH apparently was "fixing" the outdoor thermometer yesterday morning. He brought it in the house to sync up with the display in the living room. I went to get ready to go out, and glanced at the temp outside and thought, "Wow, it's not even cold out today! It's 63 degrees out there, and the sun is shining so will most likely get even warmer." So, I put the dog out and just grabbed a sweater. And decided not to go through the pain of putting on shoes so just slipped on my sandals. And then we got in the car and started driving, and my poor little toes were so cold! So I looked at the car temp reading, and it was low 30's! When I said something about it, DH told me about bringing in the outside gauge, which was apparently warmed up while inside. I thought I was gonna get frost bite, and probably looked like the complete IDIOT I was for wearing sandals. And he didn't say a word when I remarked about it being warm enough for sandals. He did laugh pretty good when I told him about looking at the temp outside being so warm, the cad!
Luckily, frostbite did not set in and I still have all my pretty pink toenails.
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errr i have cargo shorts not capri
Yeah that's what we'll call them
Sent while Hyper Vapin a Trippy tipped Reo
Good morning 
FINALLY got a list from my son and DIL. With any luck I will finish Xmas shopping today.
Just hoping my toes don't freeze while I do it. 8-o
FINALLY got a list from my son and DIL. With any luck I will finish Xmas shopping today.
Just hoping my toes don't freeze while I do it. 8-o
You guys and gals are a riot. Good morning/afternoon everyone! Sleet and snow here. Sure glad I invested in the best snow tires.
I'm "back" after a very bad ice storm situation in ARKANSAS. Electric company restored me after 4 days of no electricity and sub-zero temps at night. People who don't live in forests in the middle of nowhere don't really "get" what this is like, and I didn't either when I lived in civilization LOL.
Many of my friends and neighbors are still w/out power but they are 2 miles further out, I think they will get power today though. On top of having no electricity they also had no water, since they have wells and you need a well pump to make the water happen. I called another gal pal who lives further out, she was taking ice off her roof edge and melting it, another one has a pond. They had generators for the well pumps but they either broke down or ran out of fuel.
To be honest, I was somewhat fearful for my wellbeing and safety. Trees fell across my electric lines, and then 2 trees fell across my road to get out of here. Most of that first evening it sounded like GUNSHOTS going off, all night, in the utter darkness, as trees were falling over, and/or tops of trees falling down.
I would not have survived w/out my woodstove. I was able to make coffee and soup, and keep warm. I really didn't vape much, it was everythign I could do to keep things going here---vaping was sort of an afterthought but I did vape a little.
I forgot that I needed C batteries for a radio (you always forget something), day 3 I was able to get a neighbor to bring some over on their Kabuta tractor. So I was in darkness, and no communication as most of our phones didn't work at the outset, I plugged in my princess non-electrical phone but nobody I called had working lines.
What was really annoying was that our NOAA weather transponder which is only 300hertz in town never stays up. I DID remember batteries for my weather radio, and yet all I got was static all week. Really annoying they don't have backup for the transponder.
People say stuff like "hope you got out" but they don't realize, there IS no where to get out. Where do you go? WALMART was closed on Friday. YOu know it's like armeggedon when Walmart closes.......they were unable to get their generators up.
By day of storm, there was no gasoline left at any pump. Anwywere in town. Next town is 80 miles away.
This is why I keep to a Thoreau's Walden like model. Keep it simple. I did have neighbors down the road I called and they had generators, but belts breaking, then having to have fresh gas, and enough to keep it going for days on end. I am not strong enough to move a generator anyway, living alone out here. And can't fix a generator anyway.
I do not burn candles during weather events. I have a ton of LED flashlights. When you start researching statistics on homes burning down, it is always due to candles and flame-related light sources. Headlamps with LEDs are the best......it lights you in whatever you are doing. Batteries are worth the $$$ IMHO.
I have a tremendous amount of damage to trees here, and a few 60' high pines that are "leaners" now right by the house, but if they haven't fallen yet they probably won't, though I do have calls into several tree guys. They are overwhelemed. I can't leave my animals and let my house freeze up anyway, so there was really no where to go during all this. My neighbors not much better off.
Theres hundreds of miles of trees in the 2 counties here, they had to call in crews from Texarkana, etc. and they have been working the areas non stop. I can't even imagine how many trees and branches fall onto electric lines for so many miles and miles of power lines.
Town got electricity back on day 2. They of course even have cleared roads. Walmart openeed again on Sat. But out here, 15 miles out, many roads still had trees acorss them, as well as ice, and nobody near me got electricity til last night (Sunday).
I am calling my other friends today to see if they get electricity.
I've made a list of stuff I'd like to have for next time, like a coffee press. More batteries, etc. I lost my entire month's groceries though, as my fridge stopped of course, and you just cannot keep a ton of coolers and such in a small cabin, they were down on other side of property and I could not get to them. Besides, you have to weigh them down with heavy bricks as the racoons will open just about anything out here once it is placed outside! Next time I will just do protein bars and soup.
People do really stupid things though, and you do not want to be outside "getting things together" because tree limbs come down and hit poeople on head and kill them. I did have friend who can't be in a cabin for a week on end and did drive to town, even though they didn't have to, but you are still taking chances, anything can come down on you. I tell people to stay inside unless they absolutely have to go out.
AND.......If I ever hear dumb complaints about USPS I will scream. Our postal guy drove 30 miles over ice to man the PO here, and he arrived to the little rural metal bldg. and no electricity and no heat. He went out to his truck to warm up every 1/2 hour.
https://twitter.com/anthonywx/status/410017060081893376/photo/1
Many of my friends and neighbors are still w/out power but they are 2 miles further out, I think they will get power today though. On top of having no electricity they also had no water, since they have wells and you need a well pump to make the water happen. I called another gal pal who lives further out, she was taking ice off her roof edge and melting it, another one has a pond. They had generators for the well pumps but they either broke down or ran out of fuel.
To be honest, I was somewhat fearful for my wellbeing and safety. Trees fell across my electric lines, and then 2 trees fell across my road to get out of here. Most of that first evening it sounded like GUNSHOTS going off, all night, in the utter darkness, as trees were falling over, and/or tops of trees falling down.
I would not have survived w/out my woodstove. I was able to make coffee and soup, and keep warm. I really didn't vape much, it was everythign I could do to keep things going here---vaping was sort of an afterthought but I did vape a little.
I forgot that I needed C batteries for a radio (you always forget something), day 3 I was able to get a neighbor to bring some over on their Kabuta tractor. So I was in darkness, and no communication as most of our phones didn't work at the outset, I plugged in my princess non-electrical phone but nobody I called had working lines.
What was really annoying was that our NOAA weather transponder which is only 300hertz in town never stays up. I DID remember batteries for my weather radio, and yet all I got was static all week. Really annoying they don't have backup for the transponder.
People say stuff like "hope you got out" but they don't realize, there IS no where to get out. Where do you go? WALMART was closed on Friday. YOu know it's like armeggedon when Walmart closes.......they were unable to get their generators up.
By day of storm, there was no gasoline left at any pump. Anwywere in town. Next town is 80 miles away.
This is why I keep to a Thoreau's Walden like model. Keep it simple. I did have neighbors down the road I called and they had generators, but belts breaking, then having to have fresh gas, and enough to keep it going for days on end. I am not strong enough to move a generator anyway, living alone out here. And can't fix a generator anyway.
I do not burn candles during weather events. I have a ton of LED flashlights. When you start researching statistics on homes burning down, it is always due to candles and flame-related light sources. Headlamps with LEDs are the best......it lights you in whatever you are doing. Batteries are worth the $$$ IMHO.
I have a tremendous amount of damage to trees here, and a few 60' high pines that are "leaners" now right by the house, but if they haven't fallen yet they probably won't, though I do have calls into several tree guys. They are overwhelemed. I can't leave my animals and let my house freeze up anyway, so there was really no where to go during all this. My neighbors not much better off.
Theres hundreds of miles of trees in the 2 counties here, they had to call in crews from Texarkana, etc. and they have been working the areas non stop. I can't even imagine how many trees and branches fall onto electric lines for so many miles and miles of power lines.
Town got electricity back on day 2. They of course even have cleared roads. Walmart openeed again on Sat. But out here, 15 miles out, many roads still had trees acorss them, as well as ice, and nobody near me got electricity til last night (Sunday).
I am calling my other friends today to see if they get electricity.
I've made a list of stuff I'd like to have for next time, like a coffee press. More batteries, etc. I lost my entire month's groceries though, as my fridge stopped of course, and you just cannot keep a ton of coolers and such in a small cabin, they were down on other side of property and I could not get to them. Besides, you have to weigh them down with heavy bricks as the racoons will open just about anything out here once it is placed outside! Next time I will just do protein bars and soup.
People do really stupid things though, and you do not want to be outside "getting things together" because tree limbs come down and hit poeople on head and kill them. I did have friend who can't be in a cabin for a week on end and did drive to town, even though they didn't have to, but you are still taking chances, anything can come down on you. I tell people to stay inside unless they absolutely have to go out.
AND.......If I ever hear dumb complaints about USPS I will scream. Our postal guy drove 30 miles over ice to man the PO here, and he arrived to the little rural metal bldg. and no electricity and no heat. He went out to his truck to warm up every 1/2 hour.
https://twitter.com/anthonywx/status/410017060081893376/photo/1
and that's why I don't live in the forest!
I hope they get everyone up and running and everything cleared up soon for you!!
I'm glad you have power again, Laura!
There is a movie where a little girl sings Pink Toenails...I want to say a Nicolas Cage flick. Anyway, Val's post made me want to hear it. Do not look up pink toenails on YouTube. 8-o
There is a movie where a little girl sings Pink Toenails...I want to say a Nicolas Cage flick. Anyway, Val's post made me want to hear it. Do not look up pink toenails on YouTube. 8-o
Oh, Laura, I have been wondering and WORRIED about you and how you were "weathering" the ice storm. We didn't have it that bad.....I didn't lose power....but we were iced/snowed in for about 3 days because of where I live. Couldn't get out of my driveway and down my country road to get to the main roads. We had a severe ice storm just like that a few years back and it was truly life changing. All my trees broke off or just fell over. The whole state of Oklahoma looked like a war zone, literally.
I'm sure it's no consolation at all (Ha)...but I thought about you and really wondered if you were "prepared" for the worst. Glad to see you back among the living. You never appreciate electricity as much as you do when you've been without it for awhile.
I'm sure it's no consolation at all (Ha)...but I thought about you and really wondered if you were "prepared" for the worst. Glad to see you back among the living. You never appreciate electricity as much as you do when you've been without it for awhile.
and that's why I don't live in the forest!
Long story short, I got sick, then lost my job, then lost my home-----was offered a place to move a travel trailer and took it. Then decided to stay as it was affordable.
You know how life is --- you always have choices but not necessarily the lovely choices you wish you were presented with so you take your best shot -------- then "make it work" and are happy when it does.
Just that there are times when it doesn't, as it happens to ALL of us, right?Can't wait to watch pink toenails.
I well remember that one, JC........people stilll talk about it a lot.....also remember when it looked like half of OK would burn down, driving past farm after farm after farm, all blackened w/fires after and during that long drought.
Obviously, you are familiar with "the tree thing."
But hey, you take your chances, either with people or nature. I am not sure I would want to be in a city or apartment bldg. with no lights or heat either, and be afraid to go out for fear of looters or whatever.....been in that situation too.
Living in more high density area often gives only the "illusion" of safety, because most of the time, people around you aren't doing any better than you are and dealing w/ the same emergency
I've been part of these things, and also watched them happen other places....there IS no safe place to be, or live, under the right circumstances, we are all at risk. But it does change your *perspective* on things a whole lot once you've been thru them.
This is a cakewalk compared to the tornado in 2009.
Thanks for checking in with us Laura... I was thinking of you and hoping things were going well (or as well as possible) for you. It's good to know that you made it through relatively unscathed and were able to stay inside safe and warm.
I hope the this was it for you for the rest of the season!
I hope the this was it for you for the rest of the season!
Sorry for your situation and I can't even imagine how I would handle it. I keep one of these in my trunk but have used it more times in the house to buy a few hours of electricity. http://www.harborfreight.com/5-in-1-portable-power-pack-60703.html
Hope things get better for you soon.
Hope things get better for you soon.
Ginger is gone to the Rainbow Bridge I will miss her she was my best friend for 16 years.
I will miss her she was my best friend for 16 years.
Long story short, I got sick, then lost my job, then lost my home-----was offered a place to move a travel trailer and took it. Then decided to stay as it was affordable.
You know how life is --- you always have choices but not necessarily the lovely choices you wish you were presented with so you take your best shot -------- then "make it work" and are happy when it does.
Can't wait to watch pink toenails.
So very glad that you came through that situation o.k.
As much as I hate hearing about the trials from weather that others face, it does set my mind to be thankful for what I do have.
Wish there was more I could do for those in need.
You are a strong woman. Strong in spirit and heart.
This is a cakewalk compared to the tornado in 2009.
Yep! True. We're actually pretty close "neighbors" and everything you guys (Arkansas) get, we usually got it the day before!
I have a friend in Morrilton, and that's how it seems to work, anyway. But on this one, you got it way worse. Where I am in northern Oklahoma, we got the snow with a little sleet. You got all the ice and freezing rain. I watched it all week and just knew you were right in the middle of the worst spot. I've been sorta watching for you to post......
Ginger is gone to the Rainbow Bridge
Peg, you did the best for Ginger all her life and up to the end. I am sorry for your loss, I truly am.
I hope you are able to find comfort in the coming days.
I know you said you never want a pet again, but in all my years I have found that giving that same love and devotion to another of God's gifts helps my heart heal and eases the loneliness left by their passing. And there are so many pets needing the love of someone such as yourself, and who are able to give back that same love and devotion.
(((Hugs)))
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