Our Toro electric is our friend. We now have about 5″ of standing snow, as opposed to what melted while it got started. It’s powder, where we live. And rain can just wait, thank you! I established our back walk and the half of our double driveway we use this morning.
We’re going to do some cleanup today. Put away Christmas. Clear the decks.
Make that 7″ with no end in sight.
I shoveled (because ground-heave made it impossible to get the snowthrower through the garden gate)the front walk, and steps, and then couldn’t budge the confounded garbage can. I appealed to Jane for help. I think it had frozen to the ground. But she got it out to the curb.
We can now settle down in smug satisfaction to the thought that we are first on the block to successfully get the garbage out—the rest have all to find. 😉
We got a good foot or more here in Bremerton. Exceedingly unusual! I got the trash out, too, before it got too thick, but there’s been no sign of the garbage fellows. So it does make that accomplishment a bit less significant! *lol*
It’s raining now though, so that ought to clear the snow out. 🙂 Unless of course, it gets colder again and turns all that rain into ice and then adds snow on top! 🙁
But my sweetie’s not had to go to work for most of the week, so that’s been very nice. I love my hunny bunny!
It’s a good thing today though, cuz he had some really serious pain from the joint between his neck and shoulder out thru his shoulder and down onto his back and arm last nite and it really cut into his sleep time! My brain was working over time trying to figure out what was wrong! I hate to see anyone, especially my sweetie, suffering!
We tapped for everything from muscle strain to pinched nerves to maybe a liver stone or even a heart attack, but nothing was helping. He took aspirin; I massaged it; we put on some mineral ice; he took some more aspirin/ibuprofin; we put on heat and cold; I made him sit up for a while; NOTHING was helping in the least!
This severe pain went on for at least 3 hours, with no sign of letting up. The fact that he was busy tapping for everything shows how much pain he was in. Normally I have to tap for him, or with him or give him a big push to get going. But he was doing it all on his own, no prompting from me at all! He knows, as I do, though, that once you tap for the right thing, the pain can be stopped almost immediately.
But anyway, I kept wracking my brain for ideas since he was almost moaning in pain… if it wasn’t injury/strain/heart/liver related, maybe it’s some sort of infection. And all of a sudden it hit me. Shingles! I’ve had them and Good God Almighty! they hurt like hell and NOTHING helps, at least nothing ‘traditional’. So, after I found out he did have chicken pox as a child, I made him tap for shingles while I hunted up some echinacea purpurea (anti viral herb), and then we tapped another round about the shingles from a bit different angle.
Within 10 minutes of the tapping and taking echinecea, he started relaxing so I could tell he wasn’t feeling as much pain. He said maybe he was getting used to the pain, but I suspected different… I could tell his pain was diminishing rapidly because less than a half hour later, he dropped right off to sleep. BOOM! 🙂 *Another* problem solved with EFT (and a good side of knowledge of alternate medicine.)
The echinacea would have helped by itself, but not so quickly, I’m pretty sure. So quite luckily he didn’t have to go to work today, although the shingles seem to have been stopped successfully, as he’s feeling no pain from them today.
Hopefully I didn’t ramble on too long! Thanks for letting me share! *crossing fingers, hoping that is true*
Suggest too (snow shoveling moved the s-i joint over so the OTHER side of my back is giving me fits, a little patch called Salonpas. Nothing more than capsaisin (refined pepper juice without the eye watering) on an adhesive patch, and you can stick several of them on and about the painful spot to increase circulation. Dunno if I’d apply that where there’s a chance of shingles, but for simple muscle strain it’s a natural remedy in a convenient form.
Ah, that’s good info! I knew capsaisin was a pain killer/numbing agent; I’d just not encountered it in that form. A good-to-know fact! Thanks!! 🙂
But yeah, I’m pretty sure it wouldn’t help on shingles. The pain is in the nerve, so it’s rather hard to get to.
We are literally powerless up on the West hill by SeaTac. Several inches of snow followed by an inch or so of freezing rain and then more snow. I’m most concerned now about the thaw that’s starting because we had to take the contents of our refrigerators and put them outside in the cold yesterday to save them. The tempuratures in the upper forties predicted for today just ain’t gonna cut it. It was 54 degrees inside the house this morning and after only a day and a half without electricity, we’ve just about had it with the whole thing. Can one file intent against a corporation? Hoping all of you are in much better circumstances today than we are.
Dear me. I knew SeaTac had closed runways because of ice, but you all got hit bad. Good presence of mind to take things outside—we use our mudroom as a refrigerator annex during the winter: nice to be able to store a pot of stew that would take up significant fridge space.
Thank goodness we haven’t lost power here. I lived a couple years in an RV, and one winter, the power did go out, and man, did it get COLD, so I can totally relate!
My niece, in Olympia, (who ironically works for Puget Power) hasn’t had power for a couple days now, and is freezing her behind off. She also noted that Golf GTIs don’t make very good snow plows…
It’s slightly warmer here again. It has barely gotten truly cold any this winter, with only a few nights below freezing. I suppose that might be good, given the summer’s drought, to give the plants extra time to grow back. But it feels very odd. Our winters vary a lot. It can be quite warm or quite cold. Usually, we do get enough days and nights in the 50’s down to the 30’s, but a frosting of snow every five years or so is a Big Deal around this latitude. (Houston.) It makes me nervous, though, given the summer drought and large number of days over 100*F, that we may face that again this year. I like warm weather better than cold; it’s why I haven’t moved permanently north. (Seeking North?) (Notice how cleverly I slipped that in there?) But hmm, several weeks over 100*F and 80*F nights, and I may decide a little northward is a good thing.
Lots of snow and cold, though, no thanks. — I like those brave Canadians a lot, English or French either way, but brrr, I think they’re slightly nutty to live that far north. They, I’m sure, wonder why I’d live in this weather.
Last summer, though, had me rethinking why so many ancient murals and images show so many folks au naturel. I suppose not only is it cultural attitudes or availability of clothing materials, but plain old hot weather.
Yes, that’s just so you’ll feel envious, while you’re snug in those blankets drinking cocoa and tea and coffee …and gfi!
I have only a little snow, but some nasty cold weather here. I hope by tomrorow afternoon it will be warm enough for my little space heater to handle things again.
I love the snow. I so look forward to it. Shoveling, not so much, but I actually like running the snow blower. I plug it in once, in the garage, do the drive to the street, then haul it out the side garage door and run it up the walk to the house, where it lives. Except the cord. That goes back to the garage.
Our total was about 8″, to judge by the snow-viewing lantern (yukimi doro, although I’m not sure that’s the word for the tall version) in the garden. Its roof collects the snow so you can tell how much tell—although the bridge and garden seats give you a pretty good indication, too.
It finally quit snowing about 10pm, spat a little wet clumpy snow today, and thus far has been just cloudy. And the whole world is white.
You have much more snow than we do, not that I’m complaining. But we have you beat for temperature; we’ve been below zero all week. Way below. Finally, just today, we have gotten to 9 above, and it feels like spring. Yes, BCS, every winter I wonder why we stay!
I don’t think I could take that. That’s why I live in WA state.. it is far more temperate here—usually. Blah.
The only advantage is that it gives us bragging rights. See what we can survive!
What’s going on is, NASA says, that while La Nina arrived, the Arctic Oscillation, which normally slews south and dumps cold on us—didn’t: it stayed right over the pole, dumping snow there. WHich is good for the pole. But—it must now have shifted, as witness my driveway!
not much snow here, although it did snow a little yesterday, not enough to really make a big deal. What’s happening right now is freezing rain at my place, and I’ve reported it, but it seems that I must be under a warm spot, because the Weather Channel doesn’t reflect it here. They say it’s snowing…..hmmmm, I AM a trained weather spotter, not just basic, but advanced spotter qualified, and I’d swear that it’s wet when it hit my hand, but it’s ice when it hits the concrete and the porch railing. Maybe it’ll change to snow overnight, but if not, I’m not going to kendo practice tomorrow.
We actually had almost an inch of snow here on the beach early this week (happens about once every 5 to 10 years), but its warmed up significantly and pulled out all the stops on rain. Its been a very strange winter so far weatherwise. We’ve had several 2 or 3 week long cool dry stretches followed by a week of hard rain, instead of our normal 45ish up to 60s with light rain. Ah well, go figure.
Snowing when I woke up this morning….we have about 3′ so far with another 2-3 to come. I’m not a big fan of snow, but at least there is no wind…the cloud cover is not quite thin enough to give us that pearly gray light that is so beautiful in snow.
Stay warm and dry.
It’s still snowing a bit just north of Boston: I just came in from shoveling maybe 5″ of fluffy snow: quite welcome by me as until a few days ago we’ve basically had a snowless winter.