frustratedearthmother
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Yikes! I would be a popsicle person.
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Not my kinda weather!! I'm annoyed with my 24* morning.
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flowerbug
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well it's not like i go out there and stand in it without any clothes on or something...
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flowerbug
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the key parts are to dress enough in layers, to not to have things tight that cut off circulation and don't get wet.
like this morning when i went out to shovel i had my hat, scarf and gloves on and a coat and two layers on my legs. socks and then my crocs as there wasn't enough snow to worry about it getting in my crocs. i wasn't cold at all because the scarf warms up the air so it doesn't mess up my lungs or sinuses and i was moving to shovel a tiny bit of snow and my feet were warm from being moved and the blood circulating.
it may have been 15-20F but i wasn't cold at all.
i have pretty good boots for snow that is deeper, i've used them to walk in blizzards through a few feet of snow for many years. the coldest part of that is taking them off when i get back in.
like this morning when i went out to shovel i had my hat, scarf and gloves on and a coat and two layers on my legs. socks and then my crocs as there wasn't enough snow to worry about it getting in my crocs. i wasn't cold at all because the scarf warms up the air so it doesn't mess up my lungs or sinuses and i was moving to shovel a tiny bit of snow and my feet were warm from being moved and the blood circulating.
it may have been 15-20F but i wasn't cold at all.
i have pretty good boots for snow that is deeper, i've used them to walk in blizzards through a few feet of snow for many years. the coldest part of that is taking them off when i get back in.
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flowerbug
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Mom has her new mixer out (she fried the old one after many years of use - the replacement is the same brand but i can tell it isn't as well made so i suggested to her to not overload it - she probably will ignore my suggestions but i tried) to make cookies.
i have 8hrs of music on. it's early. i'm going back to sleep. it's all background noise to me at this point. by the end of the day there will be a lot of cookies to eat and if i can sleep for a while that would be good as it will keep me out of the cookie dough. i will probably have one cookie and some milk eventually but it won't be anytime in the next few moments.
i do cleanup when she's done and sometimes i also help with packaging or frosting if we're doing any of that.
pretty much expect it will be chocolate chip, shortbread, and chocolate chip shortbread and perhaps some molasses with seedless raspberry jam on them.
i have 8hrs of music on. it's early. i'm going back to sleep. it's all background noise to me at this point. by the end of the day there will be a lot of cookies to eat and if i can sleep for a while that would be good as it will keep me out of the cookie dough. i will probably have one cookie and some milk eventually but it won't be anytime in the next few moments.
i do cleanup when she's done and sometimes i also help with packaging or frosting if we're doing any of that.
pretty much expect it will be chocolate chip, shortbread, and chocolate chip shortbread and perhaps some molasses with seedless raspberry jam on them.
frustratedearthmother
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! I haven't decided on holiday baking yet. It won't be much, just a few nibbles to take to our Christmas Eve gathering.
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flowerbug
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this isn't really holiday baking, it is a part of her normal routine baking. as i have not heard any cursing and haven't smelled smoke or the smoke detector going off she is doing ok. when i woke up i checked with her to make sure things were going ok and it was.
as i am one of those people who uses all of my senses and tries to remember details... the new mixer does sound lighter or higher pitched in running and much of it is made what i would consider cheaper - the question in my mind becomes did the engineers actually do their job properly or not? thus i'm going to be surprised if we get past year 3 with this one and don't experience issues.
i wanted to keep the bowl and some of the attachments from the old one but Mom was pissy and so to make her happy i did get rid of it all. now after seeing the new bowl is cheaper and has a handle that may come off too easily i'd really like that old bowl back.
plus the attachments that i would have kept were more substantially made and so would likely not fail as easily as the new ones, but we don't really use them that often so perhaps it won't matter, but the analytical me says "ugh!" just me... i don't say any of this to Mom, she doesn't care until things break and then i have to deal with the results... oy... just life as it goes...
as i am one of those people who uses all of my senses and tries to remember details... the new mixer does sound lighter or higher pitched in running and much of it is made what i would consider cheaper - the question in my mind becomes did the engineers actually do their job properly or not? thus i'm going to be surprised if we get past year 3 with this one and don't experience issues.
i wanted to keep the bowl and some of the attachments from the old one but Mom was pissy and so to make her happy i did get rid of it all. now after seeing the new bowl is cheaper and has a handle that may come off too easily i'd really like that old bowl back.
plus the attachments that i would have kept were more substantially made and so would likely not fail as easily as the new ones, but we don't really use them that often so perhaps it won't matter, but the analytical me says "ugh!" just me... i don't say any of this to Mom, she doesn't care until things break and then i have to deal with the results... oy... just life as it goes... - Thread starter
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flowerbug
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it snowed a lot yesterday evening and into the morning (the wet heavy kind). and then this morning the power went out for a few hours. threw off my entire morning routine and schedule. we fired up the propane fireplace and had breakfast of hot chicken soup (we needed the can to warm up the water for coffee and hot chocolate which was dessert).
having turned the heat down to 65F overnight we woke up to a chilly morning but the fireplace did what it was supposed to do and we were warm enough until the power came back on. right when i was making the hot chocolate Mom says to me "What's that light doing on?" i had my back to it so i didn't notice. it was some trees that came down on the power lines. my brother said that our area was the only one in the state without power for our power company so that was a surprise to me. i figured with all the wet heavy snow that there would have been more troubles than us.
i waited to go out shovelling until 1pm and did an hour and took a break and had lunch then went back out to finish which took another hour and twenty minutes.
not as easy as it has been up to this point with the lighter snowfalls. i got a workout for sure today. i will probably sleep pretty good.
i've not been able to work on a few things i'd like to get to but made a bit of progress the other night when i could not get back to sleep. i'm not going to try to work on it tonight because i know better. sometimes it is better to wait and take a break than to make something worse or bad quality.
having turned the heat down to 65F overnight we woke up to a chilly morning but the fireplace did what it was supposed to do and we were warm enough until the power came back on. right when i was making the hot chocolate Mom says to me "What's that light doing on?" i had my back to it so i didn't notice. it was some trees that came down on the power lines. my brother said that our area was the only one in the state without power for our power company so that was a surprise to me. i figured with all the wet heavy snow that there would have been more troubles than us.
i waited to go out shovelling until 1pm and did an hour and took a break and had lunch then went back out to finish which took another hour and twenty minutes.
not as easy as it has been up to this point with the lighter snowfalls. i got a workout for sure today. i will probably sleep pretty good.
i've not been able to work on a few things i'd like to get to but made a bit of progress the other night when i could not get back to sleep. i'm not going to try to work on it tonight because i know better. sometimes it is better to wait and take a break than to make something worse or bad quality.
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flowerbug
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got Mom's sewing machine back to working. long two days of dealing with Mom's stubborness and drama as much as i love her she can be a challenge at times. she has not read the manual very much if at all plus she's not spent any time trying the basic things mentioned in the troubleshooting list. but she was bound and determined to think that the machine was broken. she wouldn't even let me change a needle... ?!?! oy...
i wasn't able to get right at it for long enough to solve the problem with all the outside things to deal with and the power outage and etc. but yesterday i finally was able to get through to her that i had read the manual and there were some things we'd not tried yet for solving the problem and that i really did want to do those things before driving the machine (an hour each way) to a place that could work on it. 30 minutes later it was back to working.
she was able to get her quilts done she was working on plus get started on some others.
yes, we still hug and talk to each other. love you Mom - even if i don't have any hair left...
i wasn't able to get right at it for long enough to solve the problem with all the outside things to deal with and the power outage and etc. but yesterday i finally was able to get through to her that i had read the manual and there were some things we'd not tried yet for solving the problem and that i really did want to do those things before driving the machine (an hour each way) to a place that could work on it. 30 minutes later it was back to working.
she was able to get her quilts done she was working on plus get started on some others.
yes, we still hug and talk to each other.
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flowerbug
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this morning Mom cooks even more for an army after last night's carrot cake (and some cupcakes too since we ran out of pans) extravaganza. it was elbow macaroni, tomato chunks cheese and onions. a bit thin to my tastes but i can doctor it up if i'm feeling more picky or just eat it and enjoy it as the more simple version of goulash than normal. i would want a few more ingredients in it like some more cheese on top, a little bit of garlic salt and some mushrooms. if we had some more sloppy joe's made up and available i'd mix that in as then it would be very close to our normal goulash (which when i was making it with the more plain elbow macaroni and tomato chunks it was very very good to me as the noodles were still firm and not mooshy).
it will, as it is, keep me fed for a few days and that is pretty much the main thing that really counts and i won't really mind it. i'll challenge myself to think outside of the normal box i might have and come up with some crumbs for the top (potato chips, veggie straws, crackers) or perhaps some spices like oregano, cinamon, nutmeg, dill, basil, etc. we're not short of those...
and then there is another one i may enjoy too that is very simple and easy, butter... (and if you know me you'd probably be surprised by noticing i haven't mentioned peanuts or peanut butter but that isn't appealing to me at the moment).
it will, as it is, keep me fed for a few days and that is pretty much the main thing that really counts
and i won't really mind it. i'll challenge myself to think outside of the normal box i might have and come up with some crumbs for the top (potato chips, veggie straws, crackers) or perhaps some spices like oregano, cinamon, nutmeg, dill, basil, etc. we're not short of those...and then there is another one i may enjoy too that is very simple and easy, butter... (and if you know me you'd probably be surprised by noticing i haven't mentioned peanuts or peanut butter
but that isn't appealing to me at the moment).
