i Nancy!

>> Ancient oil furnace :)  and I mean ancient.. but now the furnace is
>> doing ok, which is a good thing.  Thank goodness we just had word from
>> the Ins. company that they'll pay for all the repairs, so now they are
>> going to be determining the total amount of damage, etc.

> Glad that's finally been settled...  I was going to jump in before, but
> got too far behind... ;)

Understand that one... I have to try catching up on the cooking echo one of
these days.. it's been absolutely crazy over here this winter, between that
house freezing and everything else going on .. Ah well, eventually I hope
to at least.

>> I feel like I'm at a loss with the "where do we start?" with the
>> repairs though :)  I'm hoping the service agency that going to
>> determine the damage will help with that.

> That would be a big help... it is awfully overwhelming...  :)

Yes, it is.  The amount of damage was absolutely incredible to me.. Exterior
walls I could somewhat understand, but when we heard about the interior wall,
well that was insane to me.... I keep thinking about the walls going up the
winding staircase to the upstairs.. and the staircase.. it was so beautiful. 
The walls in the new bathroom that Ron put in (not the bathroom we used for
the Picnic) are bowed.. that is such a drag. It's the second big bathroom
downstairs, though the bathroom we used for the picnic also had a _lot_ of
damage.. Shower is now "indescribable" there :(

>> hehe.. over here, yesterday we were at 3F daytime and -5 last night.
>> Insane to me :)  I think when the house froze, the lows that night
>> were -10 or something though.

> It's been at least that bad here, too...

Yes, saw that :(  Over here in the Ithaca area, we see Syracuse's news but you
know they show those maps with so much of the NE parts of NY.

>I'm just thankful that we've
> been having sunny days along with the snow and cold...  :)  Our furnace
> works somewhat, and the house is well insulated, but we've woken to a
> rather cold house a time or three lately... when the furnace decided

That's a pain :(  We've woken up a few times here in Ithaca with no heat, so
our furnace was playing that same game I think.. :(


> that cycling off was easier to do than turning back on when it was
> time... and Richard had to wake up to restart things... Lots of blankets

> on the heated water bed, and we're doing ok... ;) Thank goodness... and now
tonight we're supposed to get a ton of snow... which means we'll have to get
to Windsor at least once this week to shovel.. Matt will help Ron so that's
something..


>> Been hovering in the single digits to around zero many of the nights around
>> here.
>> Certianly am starting to know what it feels like to live on the north pole.

>> Yes, I know what you mean :)

> I've been tracking temps and weather in Massena, too... I think they
> probably think they ARE at the north pole... sub-zero temps for highs,
> wind chills much lower...  Glad we don't live there...  although,
> probably we'd get used to that, too...  

haha.. I'd rather not have to get used to it :) :)

Take care and stay warm!
Janis

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