Says everyone in Texas right now…
I am working on the banners for the contest. I am also STILL fighting being sick. I was doing great until we hit the gas line…
For we were doing good things, planting trees. Many many trees. And had our lines marked before. And this line was NOT marked, and WAAAAAY too shallow. Like 8 inches down instead of the 18. We had been encountering roots for a tallow tree that we are going to cut down that ended up being the same size and color as our gas line to the house. on the last tree to the background, we hit it. It won’t be fixed until tomorrow. And we did this the weekend before the last. With the freezing temps, they are dealing with a lot of broken pipes.
So, fast forward to yesterday and today, with the temps in the single and teens wind chill, and below freezing since 2 yesterday, I believe. If not sooner. We just raised enough to hit the freezing temp but still having the wind chill factors in the 20’s. I’m in the office with my mom, drinking tea, with Tucker and Connor and a heater. The door is closed so we can be comfortable in layers. Luckily everyone in the house is from cooler temperatures. My family from Pittsburgh. M’s is from Michigan, but he lived in AZ where it gets much colder in the winter than people think. You can freeze in the fall and spring at night there. So it does not take long for the things to come up to stay warm. One thing is for sure, I am making more quilts for the house. They are the best for keeping you warm! (as long as you pick the right batting).
So I am writing to let you know I am still trucking on. I have three banners to finish. But The awesome bestest friend in the world, Robin, has let me know that our server will be down between 10Pm and 5 am tonight. We do have media to go… you can find it here:
Robin says she will update the folder when she gets home, so check back to see if there are more than listed. I am off to finish up the banners so I can get to editing. I am REALLY ready to edit some stories to send them out to the betas so they can work on them!
If you have a hot water bottle I would recommend filling it and putting it under your bed covers about 20 minutes before going to bed then right before you go to bed refill it and put it by your feet when you get into bed to sleep, unless you have electric blankets. Other trick I know is if you have a heating pad put it on your chest while you are sitting in your chair or on your couch. If you keep the area over your heart warm it keeps the blood pumping through your body warm, you can also put something hot under your arms or in your groin area where your femoral artery is. Basically just do the opposite of what EMTs and hospitals do to bring down a person’s body temp when it gets dangerously high and they stick ice packs in those areas so the body is pumping cooler blood through the body. When you are drinking your tea you should hold the cup on your chest, I know that helps me to warm up. I grew up in CT but moved to coastal North Carolina a few years ago. Our homes here don’t have basements so the hardest thing to get used to is worrying about our pipes freezing when the temps drop. Last week we had a serious cold snap here and we had to make sure our faucets were dripping overnight so the pipes wouldn’t freeze and break.
Yeah.. we forgot to run the water for the hot water. We did it for the cold water.. so we are not praying as it is slowly defrosting we didn’t do any damage. But at least we can fix that one!!!! But the others are great ideas!! Right now I am toasty warm in the office working. What a great incentive to work!!! 🙂
Thanks for the information. And yeah we are just hoping this breaks and we get the heat on again. Then it can do this to us again and we will be fine. I could be quilting even!!!