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1. February 26, 2015 - Gettin’ Fixed Up

   I’m alive and gettin’ fixed up here! It’s been really crazy busy between people here fixin’ stuff, and me FINALLY getting my car out and going shopping IN THE WORLD (!) for more fixin’ stuff. I will be back tomorrow with more details and regular posting! YAY!!!!!!!

1. February 25, 2015 - Help on the Way

   I had my various winter-related issues checked into yesterday.

   The hot water heater–I need a new heating element.

   The furnace–still a mystery. (There is no easy reset button, so that’s not it.) The pilot is automatic, but it has a lockout if there’s no gas. Once the gas was back, it didn’t respond. So…. This needs more investigation, but is not the most pressing … Continued…

1. February 24, 2015 - The Hot Spot

   Precious knows the warmest spot in the house!

   It’s still freezing here, and I’m still struggling with some winter issues. Hot water is actually running in the kitchen again, but the water isn’t hot. I don’t understand. I flipped the breaker on the hot water heater a couple times, thinking that might help even though it didn’t appear tripped, but that has made no difference. … Continued…

1. February 23, 2015 - Tracks

   Dog tracks and people tracks. You don’t see any car tracks, do you? I managed to move my car back a little yesterday, so that at least it wasn’t in the middle of the driveway at the top, but that’s as far as it went before it got stuck again. My car said NO. It had been over a week since I’d been … Continued…

1. February 22, 2015 - Digging Out

   This is how far I got trying to get out of my driveway yesterday. I shoveled out the snow behind my car, cleaned my car off (mostly), and tried to back in toward the house so I could go down the driveway forward. (Going directly down backward seemed a little scary with snow on it.) I made it this far and got stuck. … Continued…

1. February 20, 2015 - Struggling

   Just a quick note to say I’m kind of struggling at the moment to deal with everything. My gas is frozen off now. I’ll be back as soon as I can.

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• Wish I could give. you some smokeless weather from Oregon. We haven't had snow and almost NO cold since November. We froze so much in November I thought we would have an awful winter but it just never came. Praying it gets better for all of you soon.
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• I guess we just have to wait and see how much snow we get, Suzanne. One local station says 2-4 inches, another says 4-6 inches, the Weather Channel says 5-8! I don't know what to believe!!
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• One of the local weathermen here in CT said he was seriously thinking we will still have snow piles in June here. It's been a horrid winter!
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• We were hoping for some thawing, but it does not look like we will be getting very much, the rain we are forcasted will turn back to snow tomorrow could be up to 8-9 inches. I give up!
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• In the Chicago suburbs, Friday 34, Saturday 41, and Sunday 39 for our temperatures. We should be seeing some grass soon. At this point I would settle for seeing dirt/mud. Anything other than snow. Come On Spring!
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• Hold on starting Wednesday afternoon we may start getting some frosting on our mud like 4 to 5 inches.
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• We have had a very mild January and February. We'll see what March brings us. We have had a great deals of mud from time to time from the rain. Sometimes we get 2" per day. Hope you have a great spring.
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• We are supposed to get temps that may start melting the snow , but we are also supposed to get 1-2 inches of rain and since the ground under all that the snow is frozen, there have been flood warnings issued. I dont ever remember a Feb. like the one we had this year. We have not seen bare ground since shortly after Christmas.
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• I forgot to mention the lovely sleigh bed, it looks like an old one---very nice.
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• Country living is a challenge! That's why most of us do it, it's the sense of well being and accomplishment that you get when at the end of the day you can say... "I made it". Also, the longer that we hang in, the easier it gets. Frozen pipes, no gas, and sporadic electricity is not as scary to us, because we have "weathered the storm" before and we know how to face and get through it. Our forefather's got by with a lot less and prospered. I admire you Suzanne, because you have made it, and you have your own little block of paradise to show for it. Remember spring is just around the corner, get out the seeds and start planning the garden!
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• OK so I tried a new box of borax and it still doesn't dissolve in hot water. But it still does what I want it to by loosening the glob of soap to be more liquid.
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