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donklan



High Tech here up North.............

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jackwv

Don some good ones there.  I have been cleaning the sidewalks while Mimi plays in the snow.  But I do like the view after a snowfall.


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Lindancer

Jack, new snow, always makes a pretty scene

donkan. Thanks for posting I thought  the first one hit the  spot for us old folks I am 93 :)

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Mary Ann

Don, great cartoons; I liked them all.

Mary Ann

JeanneP

Lindance.  It is sad that they have taken out all the things such as Those Night classes where had all kinds and also here we had 2 senior centres. Use to have bus trips. Had a 4 day one down South to the Gambling place and daily to the Gambling boat 75 miles from here. Did that a couple times but not my thing. I even bowled on one of their bowling teams. Now nothing. A man Coffee meeting in the morning is the only thing I see. Even our libraries had things going. Now all the have are things for babies and mothers. 1 to 3 years old.
Crazy. One of the hospitals had a monthy lunch and Bingo . Its gone also. We have one of the Largest Universities in the country so looks like could get a lot of volunteers to get experience.
When I go to other towns I try to find their Senior Centres and lots of them have such good programs. Not here and a big need for them.
JeanneP

so_P_bubble

Nice photo Jack.  Is that your house? I see the light was on in both windows :) but Mimi was out with you, you said.

jackwv

Bubble, yes that is my home.  Purchased 1963 it was our first and only home.  I have lights in 4 windows and they burn all the time.  Was told it was harder on the bulbs turning them on and off.  Never had a garage, so a bit of work cleaning the suv  and the walks.  Mimi entertains while I work.

Sandy

Great photos everyone....

Funny,  Funny, Funny and so true,  sadly   !!!!!
  "It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brains fall out."

― Carl Sagan

SCFSue

I've just come in from outside after shoveling 3+ inches of snow away from my car.  The temperature is only 28* which is pretty cool for Central Alabama.  Fortunately I still have winter gear left over from 2 tours in Brunswick, Maine, so I was warm enough, especially when I was chipping ice off the driveway!  We are not expecting temps about 31 or 32* today.  The weather channel says Tuskeegee which is about 50 miles south should hit the 50's tomorrow, so perhaps we'll be warmer then.

Stay warm Everyone!
Sue

FlaJean

Love those cartoons!  Jack, the snow scenes are pretty and saw many of them when we lived in Maryland.  In fact, so many that we decided to move to Florida.  We are having some COLD weather but no snow and icy roads.

Lindancer

I will try again to post. Just lost my last one, guess I hit the wrong button. :tickedoff:

Jack, I bet your house is better built, then the ones they build today.
In 1957, when we bought our house on 3 acres it was already 50 years old.  We had seaweed for insulation, and dirt floor in the cellar and a coal burning furnace. Of course over the years we modernized . I love my farm house style kitchen very large ,6 windows, also a dutch door.

JeanneP, I am lucky with our senior center, they do make trips, also once a month they take the ferry to Conn. for gambling.(always a full bus) Also once a month they have a twilight dinner, with a live DJ. Our recreation club here in the park is very active. Also has trips into the city and this Spring a cruise.  Library has a bus that goes into the NYCity, called do as you please.  Lets you off on Time Sq.

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jackwv

Lin I doubt my home was as well built.   Mine was a pre cut package much like Sears sold in their catalog.   I had a little morph of the original home and how it is now.  While it might be considered a video it is just two photos so posting the link here.

https://vimeo.com/251703786

Shirley

Love the cartoons, Don, and my kids actually did shovel all the snow in our 90' driveway behind MY car (in the garage) one time.... not sure but think the wind had something to do helping their decision.  With 3 kids cars parked in the driveway & KS wind, they knew better than put that snow behind Dad's lane.

Jackie, thank you so much for the cute kitty card.... yes, they do rule my life. 

Jack, great morph of your house.  You know my gr-daughter bought one of those Sears houses in Seattle... think it in the near million dollar range now.  They have done a lot of renovations but theirs is a much smaller version of yours.  They are getting crowded with 2 little kids now, but property is so high in Seattle & they like the area. 

My daughter is still in town, came over for lunch today & now I need to do catch up on rolling over a couple of CDs & cleaning house.  I hate this part of decision making, last time these CDs rolled over I got a little bit better rate & this time they have gone down so I have the money sitting in a money market account making next to nothing until I bite the bullet & go for 1 year or 5 years online but by phone.  Doesn't make a lot of difference, the gov will take it in taxes.  I am not a joyful giver.... nobody else did the saving & KS plus the Feds shouldn't have a right to the interest.  So, there!  That said, I'm off to do business.
  :wave:

Mary Ann

Jack, my cousin, who lived in Indps, bought a Sears house.  I think it was about 25  years old when they bought it and I doubt anyone did anything to it.  The toilet was so close to the wall, another move would have put it outside.  The kitchen was an aisle kitchen with little counter space, yet my cousin put forth many delicious meals from there.  When they put in a dishwasher, they lost a lower cabinet but bought a free standing one to replace it - in another location in the kitchen.  It is a Cape Cod house and with both my cousin and her husband gone now, their oldest granddaughter lives in the house.

I remember seeing pictures of your house before you added the family room.  I'll bet you get a lot of use from that room. 

Mary Ann

jackwv

Gloria, Shirley, Mary Ann  My home was built by a local lumber company, now out of business.   They built a number locally and much like the Sears homes.  Shirley we are not in the Seattle area, homes quite reasonable here.  I paid $16,500 for mine in 1964, added the family room and other improvements and now possibly worth $175,000.   I have a small kitchen but formal dining room and Shirley preferred working alone and then not looking at the pots and pans when we dined.  I spend most of my time in the family room, with Mimi, the tv and computer.   My second floor bath and 3 bedrooms seldom used except for visitors.

JeanneP

I always heard that the Sears Homes where well built. Must have been as so many of the still standing. I would say that the ones for your area Jack and here in Midwest had extra Insulation because of the Winters.  I have seen so many homes in the south. Even expensive ones and hardly any insulation at all.  Same with Mobile homes. The ones make south cannot be sold into the Midwest. Most are built in Indiana. Had a friend that brought theirs up for Alabama . bought there when in the service. I was in it when it was weather pretty much like what we are having right now. The Ice was on the wall in the inside of the home. Don't have the same furnaces in them alsol

Lin. Your place sounds perfect. I would be happy on something like that.  Most my friends here in town last 50 year are gone. I still like to go, travel etc but not that crazy on driving now. Love the area but finding it boring now. Not much to do. No place to meet people. When the big airbase was close then lots of British  women married to Airmen and had lots going on then . We even got flights back to UK at a good price as could get quite a few women going.They had bus trips also. I formed a British Womens club. Only know of one women in the area now and she is now 92. How time goes.
JeanneP

angelface555

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After days of little to no snow and with freezing rain and ice the last two days; last night and today we received four inches of snow over the ice. This evening freezing rain and fog is forecast. I think Mother Nature confused us with the lower forty-eight states and we received your weather!

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jackwv

Patricia, pretty photos.  Nice when you can simply view and not go out into it, or worse have to get out the shovel.

Mary Ann

Patricia, I've seen trees like that many times.  That is a familiar sight around here, usually at least once a year.  I remember working during an ice storm in March 1976 when we had crews from all over the midwest to help our crews.

Mary Ann

angelface555

Jack, since I am on a higher floor, you might say I have a bird's eye view and my rent which they just increased, pays someone else to do the shoveling.

MaryAnn, our first ice storm in over one hundred years, occurred in 2015. I lost a week's pay, and it brought the city to a standstill. Now they are becoming more common. At least as Jack said, I don't have to go out unless someone takes me!

This weather is totally uncommon but becoming the new normal?

I recall someone posting photos of Buffalo, NY a few years back and saying I must be used to that. Not at all!

Mary Ann

Patricia, like you, if the weather is bad, I don't have to go out in it.  When I mentioned working that ice storm it was 1976 and I didn't retire for 10 years.  I don't even get the mail these days as the road by the mailbox is iffy.  Tom may not pick up the mail until mid-afternoon, but he does get it and I can wait since much of my mail is just plain junk!

Radar shows us not getting snow, or any amount, for several days.  Lake Michigan has been frozen out to the outer lighthouse and that keeps us from getting lake effect snow.  We might lose some of the ice in the next few days as we'll be close to 40 degrees.  However, we won't lose all of the ice.

Mary Ann

angelface555

MaryAnn, we never really had snow, as you need a wet climate or moisture for it to snow, but for most of my life and recorded history from Russians, Europeans, Americans from the eighteen hundreds and Native oral histories before that, the Interior has always had two or more week-long periods of severe cold such as forty five to seventy below. Then it stopped about 2013. Now, who knows?



angelface555

I spoke too soon;

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT UNTIL 11:15PM AKST FRI ...COLD COMING TO INTERIOR ALASKA THIS WEEKEND... A COLD FRONT MOVED EAST OF FAIRBANKS TODAY BRINGING IN A MUCH COLDER AIRMASS. TEMPERATURES IN FAIRBANKS WILL DROP BELOW ZERO ON SATURDAY, AND KEEPING FALLING INTO THE 20S BELOW ZERO BY SUNDAY. TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN IN THE 15 TO 30 BELOW RANGE IN THE FAIRBANKS AREA THROUGH MOST OF NEXT WEEK. WEST OF NENANA WHERE SKIES HAVE CLEARED OUT, TEMPERATURES WILL FALL INTO THE 20S BELOW ON SATURDAY AND THEN REMAIN BETWEEN 20 AND 40 BELOW THROUGH MOST OF NEXT WEEK.

so_P_bubble

Beautiful photos, Angel.  Just like favorite postcards!
and not feeling the cold when just admiring :)

Mary Ann

Patricia, did you get those below-zero temperatures last night.  Your 11:15 pm was 3:15 am here.  And it is 36 degrees ABOVE zero here!

Mary Ann

Lindancer

Good morning, Patricia  those pictures make it look like a winter wonder land, thanks for posting.  Taffy, us having one of her running days, she run the length of the hall into the bedroom, back down the hall through the rest of the house and ends in the living room,  then starts all over again.

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Mary Ann

Gloria de, Kendrick does similar things, running from the living room, through the dining room into the hallway to my bedroom, but he often runs up and down the stairs too.  I look at him and ask, "are you having fun?"  He has no idea what I am talking about, so doesn't answer!

He so often walks past me and "marks" me by rubbing against my legs.  If I am quick enough, I'll pull my pant legs up because I think I have more cat hair on my pant legs than he does on his body!  And he lets me pull his tail; I really think he likes that.

Mary Ann

FlaJean

I like your snow scenes, Angel.  Just glad it isn’t here.   :)