2025: What are you doing today?

58 Yeoman · February 18, 2025, 11:15:22 PM

Frank, the chemical plant where I worked before retiring would buy retired semi van trailers to use to move product between warehouses or temp storage. One of the workers was backing one of the trailers into the dock one day while making a sharp turn, and the whole box came loose from the frame and tipped sideways(it was empty). They started checking the trailers a little better after that.

Bill, it's my least favorite season too. My wife said it was about -12* last night with the wind chill. I haven't been outside since Friday. Catching up on reading and napping. I'll have to go outside this Thursday as we're going for a follow up with the surgeon. It's not really as bad as I thought it would be. I"m getting by with only two Tylenol pills a day for slight pain.

My older daughter and grand daughter stopped today for lunch. She's in from California visiting her mother. Grand daughter is on break and wanted to see more snow, daughter wasn't so thrilled with the cold, though.

Crosley.In.AZ · February 19, 2025, 08:01:48 AM

Kinda (?) a milestone today for my brother and me .. It has been 50 years since our mother died suddenly from a brain aneurysm at age 57.

Mom died on my wife's birthday (today) and we buried mom on my brother's wife's birthday. Its weird how life throws little things at you like this.

I never expected to be alive in my 70s since I did a lot of stupid stuff over the years

WZ JUNK · February 19, 2025, 08:34:16 AM

I am getting ready to fire up the snow blower. We got about 8" of snow yesterday and it is 0 degrees this morning. I will go play in the snow some

sirstude · February 19, 2025, 11:13:30 AM

42 below in Jordan Montana this morning, actual no wind chill. Still stuck with the Canadian Express.

WZ JUNK · February 19, 2025, 12:05:09 PM

Snow work is done at my place. It was a very fine snow and realitively easy on the snowplowing machine but not som much the old operator. I will rest some and then do some of the neighbors.

chimp koose · February 19, 2025, 04:19:10 PM

we were at-49C this week (-66F) windchill put us in high -50s. It will be +3C or about +37F by the weekend . We have had wild swings in temperature one week to the next most of the winter. It was above freezing for about 2 weeks in Jan. winters are becoming unpredictable.

Crosley.In.AZ · February 19, 2025, 06:08:12 PM

ya , weird weather everywhere? Monday it was 27*F here.. Tuesday it was 39*F ... Wednesday it was 20*F . Still hits the mid 50s in the daylight. Altho monday it was 60*F

kb426 · February 19, 2025, 07:12:24 PM

You guys that are in serious cold have my sympathies. The coldest I have seen in my lifetime is -27. That was back before efi and good batteries and starters.

At -5 this morning, the 48 started just like it was 30.

enjenjo · February 19, 2025, 10:17:29 PM

My wife has been to dialysis five times now. I am not supposed to be driving yet. Of the five trips paid for by insurance exactly none have been successful both ways. One time I had to drive her that day to get there on time. The transport was late one time but only 10 minutes. No one showed to pick her up at all one time so she missed her slot. Today she had two drivers fighting over her for the trip in, and the return driver was 2 hours late picking her up. Friday I am driving her myself both ways. I am done.

58 Yeoman · February 19, 2025, 11:17:35 PM

Wow, Frank. When I have my skin cancer surgeries, they won't let any taxis, ubers, etc. pick me up. It has to be a family member; something about not getting taken advantage of, I guess.

Funny thing when we went to the plastic surgeon for the first consultation and he took a biopsy of my lower eyelid, then bandaged my eye all up. He never asked my wife with me if she could drive. Luckily she could.

chimp koose · February 20, 2025, 12:08:46 AM

well we may have it cold up here but no poisonous snakes , very few floods and few tornadoes. Id rather get snowed on than flooded . You can just haul snow away or pile it. Our summers are getting different too . More extreme weather than before . We also get Northern lights up here fairly often , that never gets old. Frank , sorry to hear of your troubles , that has to be frustrating .

Crosley.In.AZ · February 20, 2025, 07:44:50 AM

Quote from: enjenjo on February 19, 2025, 10:17:29 PMMy wife has been to dialysis five times now. I am not supposed to be driving yet. Of the five trips paid for by insurance exactly none have been successful both ways. One time I had to drive her that day to get there on time. The transport was late one time but only 10 minutes. No one showed to pick her up at all one time so she missed her slot. Today she had two drivers fighting over her for the trip in, and the return driver was 2 hours late picking her up. Friday I am driving her myself both ways. I am done.

Yeah , I would be whizzed off too. Sometimes you just have to take care of stuff yourself. On the flip side , so many things in the medical service world are NEVER on or near on time. It seems to be the norm? Sure there is a window of time that is acceptable , but waiting for hours is unpleasant.

Same for air travel. A cousin recently flew back to Tucson AZ from Illinoise. Her 1 hour layover in Dallas turned into 7 hours with plane delays, once on a plane after 5 hours, to de-ice the plane she was on took near 2 hours. Her previous trip to Ill , there was a delay of hours in Dallas too. Dallas is a poorly operated airport? She has elderly parents in Ill.. frequent trips for now.

We moved from the valley of the sun in Arizona for a few reasons: heat was one. Summer 2024 was a bit warmer than usual , drier too. In the mobile home park there were many cacti that dried up and died ! Couple neighbors to our park model, their cactus looked a truck had run it over. So dried up, dead, flat on the ground. Most folks in this park are snow birds. SO the park models are left unattended 6 months of a year