Activity update. It's been interesting. Last Saturday Diane and clan left for Florida til the 21st -- just barely ahead of the storm of the century. Their plane was delayed 1 hr and had 2 de-icings. Next day they closed down Midway Airport since the hoses were frozen and they couldn't fuel the planes!
So your Queen moved into the 'house'. (Think we mentioned before that Diane actually lives in a castle.) And stayed, and stayed, and stayed. Luckily Diane always has plenty of food but heat was acting up. Not too bad. Monday morning it was 61 in the Queen's bedroom and 53 on the other side of the great room. Most faithful retainer and man-who-can-do-miracles came and spent 6 hrs (yuperdoodle) under the castle de-freezing one unit - which promptly froze again that night. But the unit that heats the rest of the castle stayed fixed at a warm 69. Arctic snow and ice, temperatures way below 0 prevented the snow plows even getting in to the streets and our guy couldn't even do our driveway until 10:30 Monday night. State Hwy 49 n/s was closed; Interstate 94 e/w closed. Our county was declared an emergency disaster area. No one-- NO ONE-- except emergency vehicles (that did include snow plows) was allowed on any road -- $2500 fine. That was in effect until Tuesday morning. After that it was 'stay off the roads unless you absolutely must travel' and then it was dicey. Wind chills down to 35 below! Instant frostbite.
Sun and a whopping 14 yesterday. Next morning it was 24. Warming to 38 with heavy rain. RAIN. Not supposed to get below freezing last night and it didn't. All the way up to 38 as we write this but headed below freezing again tonight. But lots of snow melted.
And another electrical problem. See ODE TO ON/OFF SWITCH.
You'd think we had a lot of time to read and work on hobbies. Au contraire. Snow shoveling, etc. We have now experienced winter in our new world. 6-8 inches of snow is pretty. After that it just makes for a lot of problems. We were very lucky the power didn't go out.......shhhhhhhh.
Diane said it was cold in Florida. They woke up to 40. She didn't get any sympathy from moi.
A whiny litany from
Your Queen
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