unrelenting cold and snow, Northeast

[catjac1975]

What happened to the repair man NYB?

 

[Nyboy]

furnce was working inside pipes to baseboard heaters froze. he couldnt do anything about that

 

[baymule]

Thanks @thistlebloom for sending a blizzard to Minnesota-Texas! We just took dogs for a run, they love it. Fed horses, chickens and dogs extra breakfast because of the cold. Snow still falling!

 

[Beekissed]

I'm frozen too. No heat until the pipes in the ground thaw. So far nothing the Geo Guy has tried made a difference in thawing the pipes.
Going without sleep to keep the fireplace running. My Pollyanna moment -- at least I have electricity.

For 50 years I've said most of my attitude came from reading Pollyanna at too early an age. Today I heard there is something called "The Pollyanna Effect". Gee, I should'a trademarked that years ago.

Nothing wrong with Pollyanna!!! All of life can be viewed from the perspective we choose and, if we choose to see positive sides to things, I think it starts a life habit of making the best of seemingly bad situations and the most of really wonderful situations.

A flip of the coin are folks who see the bad in bad situations and even the bad in good situations, and this becomes a life long habit of getting the worst out of any situation because of what you choose to see. The world is literally overrun with that kind of perspective....so much so that the Pollyanna's of the world are labeled as...well....as Pollyannas!

For instance, I fell on the ice yesterday and really rung my bell, so to speak...hobbled around all day like a truck ran over me. We laughed about it all day, made jokes about being a "fall survivor", etc. It hurt, I'm not gonna lie...and today it feels better than yesterday but I still know how old I am with every step! But if I had complained all day about the weather, about the ice, about how sick and tired I am of all the cold, blah, blah, blah, I think my pain would have been much, much worse.

Yesterday was hard to get through because I had to do a lot of getting in and out of the truck, walking in stores, toting a grandchild over icy spots, etc., after that good slammin' on the ice, but we had a joyous day all the same....and it had started out with frozen pipes, me trying to jump the battery on our older car in 4 degree weather, unsuccessfully I might add, fighting with a nasty carseat, and failing in some plans we had made because of it.

I think us Pollyanna folks just seem to squeeze more joy out of life and who wouldn't want that? The world needs more joy!

Not that I speak from want, for I have learned to be content in whatever circumstances I am. I know how to get along with humble means, and I also know how to live in prosperity; in any and every circumstance I have learned the secret of being filled and going hungry, both of having abundance and suffering need. I can do all things through Him who strengthens me.…

 

[Lavender2]

I talked with my friend in AR this morning, they are getting 3-5" snow... and 'it's SO PURDY!'
Happy for y'all enjoying the beauty of the big white flakes... wishing y'all were here to help me haul in some wood.

Just a few flurries here today, in the teens... near 30's by the weekend!

 

[Ridgerunner]

Bee, I had a great start to the day, I woke up alive. Everything else is just Lagniappe.

From Wikipedia (For those that don't know)

lagniappe (/ˈlænjæp/ LAN-yap) is a small gift given to a customer by a merchant at the time of a purchase (such as a 13th doughnut (or Beignets - my addition) when buying a dozen, or more broadly, "something given or obtained gratuitously or by way of good measure

Mark Twain writes about the word in a chapter on New Orleans in Life on the Mississippi (1883). He called it "a word worth traveling to New Orleans to get":

Lavender think about it as absence makes the heart grow fonder.

 

[Beekissed]

Bee, I had a great start to the day, I woke up alive. Everything else is just Lagniappe.

From Wikipedia (For those that don't know)

lagniappe (/ˈlænjæp/ LAN-yap) is a small gift given to a customer by a merchant at the time of a purchase (such as a 13th doughnut (or Beignets - my addition) when buying a dozen, or more broadly, "something given or obtained gratuitously or by way of good measure

Mark Twain writes about the word in a chapter on New Orleans in Life on the Mississippi (1883). He called it "a word worth traveling to New Orleans to get":

Lavender think about it as absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Great word!!! I may steal that one just to show how cultured and well traveled I am.... I also like "Irie"....

Irie (I-rie \I ' -ree) is the word in Jamaican Patois that means, "alright". The term can be used to mean 1: powerful and pleasing; 2: excellent, highest; n 3: the state of feeling great.

 

[thistlebloom]

Thanks @thistlebloom for sending a blizzard to Minnesota-Texas! We just took dogs for a run, they love it. Fed horses, chickens and dogs extra breakfast because of the cold. Snow still falling!

I'm not sure I can take all the credit Bay. But you're welcome anyway.
Enjoy it while you can!

 

[majorcatfish]

checked the weather report at lunch time they are calling for the Yankee vortex to drop 6-9" of snow
tonight with a little freezing rain early in the morning ... looks like a good day to stay off the roads...

 

[Nyboy]

I'm not sure I can take all the credit Bay. But you're welcome anyway.
Enjoy it while you can!

Karma didnt bay post she thinks of you when she sticks her head in the freezer?