-=> Quoting Janis Kracht to Nancy Backus on 01 Mar 14  21:01:24 <=-

 >> New week.. new"-ish" weather.. same DARN cold back from the Polar
 >> Vortex again :(
 > Still winter, after all...  and still upstate New York...  ;)

 JK> Yeah, darn it Lol.. I understand Mark's happiness with the snow, but
 JK> for me, it's not the same as when I was a bit younger  

Strange, how our excitement about things fades with age (also with
debilitation)... ;)  I had pleasant memories about being on the ocean
beach and wading into the ocean... until I went to my nephew's wedding
on the beach, and discovered that I couldn't balance on the sand very
well, and that the riptide wasn't any fun any more...  ;0

 >> Understand.. but at least over here, it's horribly cold.  Tonight is
 >> supposed to hit a low of -5.. Where or where is Spring.. :(
 > On her (very, very) slow but sure way...  ;)

 JK> Yes, I've seen expectations of more snow and cold on the way this
 JK> week... along with some icy conditions .. but they've been wrong
 JK> before  

And what DID you get...?    We got mostly sun, with spatterings of
snow to wake up to on the cars almost every morning (and additional bits
during the day, some days)... and a record low of -8 not last night but
the night before... ;)  But then it warmed up again...  :)

 >> The guys working on our furnace in Windsor did a neat thing, I
 >> thought.. but kind of insane to me .. they put anti-freeze in the
 >> water lines.. so, hopefully we won't have another pipe freeze!
 > Just the furnace lines, I expect...?  Or throughout the house...?  Makes

 JK> Furnace lines I believe.. but the water in the house is turned off so
 JK> if I wanted to check, I couldn't . 

Just as well, probably... 

 > sense, for a house that isn't occupied...  Isn't that what one does with
 > mobile homes that are being stored for the winter...?  If one can't just
 > drain them, that is...

 JK> Hmm.. not sure, but it does make sense for a dwelling that can't be
 JK> 'drained' or whatever. 

Our camp in the Adirondacks used to have running water during the
season... they had lines in, and would pump pond water up into the camp
for flushing and washing up purposes... part of the prep for winter was
to drain all the lines and put the pump away... then set it up again in
the late spring for the next season...  The last year the previous owner
was in, she had her nephew set things up, but apparently nobody thought
to do the winter prep, so the lines, of course, froze... and burst... 
Now our running water is run down to the pond and fill up some
buckets... ;)  Someday it might get repaired...  :)

ttyl         neb

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