I took pictures after three days in the deep freeze, but I am just too lazy to download them from the camera, but we still had snow (ice) on roofs, cars, and shady places in the streets. This is Southeast Texas for goodness sakes! We are semi-tropical. This is ridiculous.
Schools were closed for two days, and well they should have been. Our temperature didn't get out of freezing both of those days. I knew that the buses would not run. And they didn't.
I am not looking forward to our gas bill. We have two furnaces that ran A LOT! Fortunately, we had gotten our firewood before all this, so we were good on that. Our fireplace is really an important asset to our heat in the den. Even with new ductwork that should have been able to send the air better, the master bedroom gets the lion share of the air (both a/c and heat). It gets so hot in there, but the den, kitchen, and breakfast room get just a little so we have been freezing!
Today we are to have (finally!!!) temperatures in the 60's, but it is cloudy with occasional showers. That makes it seem a lot colder. Tomorrow temps in the 70's. I wish the sun were to be out, the rain will be greater.
So that is what is going on in Southeast Texas. With the flu rampant, and the terrible weather, we are sticking close to the house.
Hope all it better in your neck of the woods!
Saturday, January 20, 2018
Tuesday, January 16, 2018
This and that
First - there won't be much done today. We are once again under mixed precipitation and a winter storm warning. What?? Tropical Houston! Yes - right now here in Little Sub of Houston it is 27 and falling at 10:00 AM. My car and roof are covered in sleet. Our neighbors are without power - with the repair being done with repair being done between 11 am and 4 pm. Thank God for our generator (that we got for hurricanes but use more in the cold!).
I. Am. Tired. Of. This. We were at the SSB with my son and his family for New Years. It SNOWED, and the temps ran in the teens. People - we are in the south! This isn't supposed to happen.
Today this freeze covers the state and all over schools are closed, governmental offices are closed. The joke is that Texas is closed. And, sadly it is true. But it is a good thing - we aren't prepared for this stuff!
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In other news, my cataract isn't getting one bit better. I really am legally blind in my left eye. When I went to the Retinal Specialist last week I got the "wonderful" news that now there is a little fluid under the retina in the right eye. That means the dry macular degeneration is affecting the right eye. I am really upset. That will mean injections in both eyes.
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My shoulders (right - torn rotator cuff, left - no cartilage to buffer bones) are terrible. Now the sciatia isn't bad, but the degeneration is causing a lot of pain. I cannot stand for much more than 15 minutes.
Getting old isn't for the weak. I am lamenting as so many of us do - if I had known I was going to live this long... Well if I had known I would fall apart like this, I think I would not have done things like moving heavy antique furniture upstairs by my self!
Peace to you all.
I. Am. Tired. Of. This. We were at the SSB with my son and his family for New Years. It SNOWED, and the temps ran in the teens. People - we are in the south! This isn't supposed to happen.
Today this freeze covers the state and all over schools are closed, governmental offices are closed. The joke is that Texas is closed. And, sadly it is true. But it is a good thing - we aren't prepared for this stuff!
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In other news, my cataract isn't getting one bit better. I really am legally blind in my left eye. When I went to the Retinal Specialist last week I got the "wonderful" news that now there is a little fluid under the retina in the right eye. That means the dry macular degeneration is affecting the right eye. I am really upset. That will mean injections in both eyes.
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My shoulders (right - torn rotator cuff, left - no cartilage to buffer bones) are terrible. Now the sciatia isn't bad, but the degeneration is causing a lot of pain. I cannot stand for much more than 15 minutes.
Getting old isn't for the weak. I am lamenting as so many of us do - if I had known I was going to live this long... Well if I had known I would fall apart like this, I think I would not have done things like moving heavy antique furniture upstairs by my self!
Peace to you all.
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