Slick day
12/28/05 6:35 A.M.
30 F, Drippy, NNE wind 6 mph.
Good morning,
Boy, another day of getting up late. For some reason, I woke up with a "sour stomach", as Dad used to say, in the middle of the night. I got up for an hour or so, then went back to bed and slept late. Not too sure what caused it, but have not had that problem for several years now. Hope I don't for several years more.
The northeast half of the state is under a freezing rain advisory this morning. At the moment, the State is showing that the roads around here, from Sheboygan to almost Wausau, are ice covered and hazardous! A county truck sanding the road just went by the house here. Think I might just stay put for the early part of the day at least. Probably a good thing that schools are closed for vacation.
On our supply trip to Green Bay yesterday, we had a very light rain, drizzle almost all day long. Just enough to need the wipers on the slowest setting. The roads were good, but Howard said there were two cars picking tulips in the ditch earlier, on his trip to visit someone going into surgery yesterday morning. Watching the news, it looks like Europe is in a snow storm. When I opened the webcam for Enschede, they even had a dusting of snow yesterday. It disappeared today though.
I did pick up a clean-out for the sewer line yesterday. Now all I have to do is finish digging up the line, cutting it, then inserting the clean-out outside of the house line. It really sounds easier than it is. Not only the rock-hard frozen soil above it, but also trying to put the cleanout in the line. I suspect I will have a great deal of difficulty trying to "flex" the existing pipe to allow the fitting into it. The fitting is 3-4" longer than the section being cut out to allow for a joint at each end. I have a feeling I will be digging much more than just an opening the size of the cleanout. Sounds like fun! :-)
We decided to pick-up a USB portable drive stick to put our pictures on. We got a fairly large one, for us, and found when we got to the checkout the cost was over $17.00 higher than the bin tag on the shelf. Margriet checked out while I was wandering around the rest of the store to see what was on sale. I didn't realize she was doing that. When she showed me the receipt, we rechecked the bin tag with the receipt - there was a difference. We went back to the checkout to question which price was correct. Turns out the drive was on sale apparently until Christmas then went back to the normal price again. The store did honor the bin tag price, but took the bin tag down. We had noticed a couple other items on the same shelf that had bin tags missing. I think someone forgot the change the tags after the sale and as people questioned what they were being charged, took them down. The drive has about twice the capacity of my camera's memory card. I have put 400+ pictures on it and still had a bunch of space left yet. Of course I don't keep the pictures on the camera's memory, but empty it to this machine to some form of removable memory. Now we can rally organize all of them into folders. Eventually we will need more USB drives for all of them, but this is a start. Comparing the price of "normal" photography, the cost of each picture on digital is really low, even purchasing the USB drive. Like that part and we can do so much more with them in a digital format!
The only place that we found parking lots filled was at Wal*Mart and Fleet Farm. Both stores had enough folks on the check out lines to handle the number of customers without too much of a wait. Even Aldi's had some things on sale to close them out. We didn't go crazy and buy much other than what we went over for.
We were very surprised by the increase in the cost of a lot of food products. Suspect they are blaming the increases on the cost of fuel, but sure cuts down on what we bought. Some things we just do without. Fruit and vegetables are most affected it seems, but nothing is really a good buy anymore. What happened to paying $3.00 for a 100 pounds of potatoes?
Time to get what is left of this day a-going.
In Christ My Saviour,
Chris <><
30 F, Drippy, NNE wind 6 mph.
Good morning,
Boy, another day of getting up late. For some reason, I woke up with a "sour stomach", as Dad used to say, in the middle of the night. I got up for an hour or so, then went back to bed and slept late. Not too sure what caused it, but have not had that problem for several years now. Hope I don't for several years more.
The northeast half of the state is under a freezing rain advisory this morning. At the moment, the State is showing that the roads around here, from Sheboygan to almost Wausau, are ice covered and hazardous! A county truck sanding the road just went by the house here. Think I might just stay put for the early part of the day at least. Probably a good thing that schools are closed for vacation.
On our supply trip to Green Bay yesterday, we had a very light rain, drizzle almost all day long. Just enough to need the wipers on the slowest setting. The roads were good, but Howard said there were two cars picking tulips in the ditch earlier, on his trip to visit someone going into surgery yesterday morning. Watching the news, it looks like Europe is in a snow storm. When I opened the webcam for Enschede, they even had a dusting of snow yesterday. It disappeared today though.
I did pick up a clean-out for the sewer line yesterday. Now all I have to do is finish digging up the line, cutting it, then inserting the clean-out outside of the house line. It really sounds easier than it is. Not only the rock-hard frozen soil above it, but also trying to put the cleanout in the line. I suspect I will have a great deal of difficulty trying to "flex" the existing pipe to allow the fitting into it. The fitting is 3-4" longer than the section being cut out to allow for a joint at each end. I have a feeling I will be digging much more than just an opening the size of the cleanout. Sounds like fun! :-)
We decided to pick-up a USB portable drive stick to put our pictures on. We got a fairly large one, for us, and found when we got to the checkout the cost was over $17.00 higher than the bin tag on the shelf. Margriet checked out while I was wandering around the rest of the store to see what was on sale. I didn't realize she was doing that. When she showed me the receipt, we rechecked the bin tag with the receipt - there was a difference. We went back to the checkout to question which price was correct. Turns out the drive was on sale apparently until Christmas then went back to the normal price again. The store did honor the bin tag price, but took the bin tag down. We had noticed a couple other items on the same shelf that had bin tags missing. I think someone forgot the change the tags after the sale and as people questioned what they were being charged, took them down. The drive has about twice the capacity of my camera's memory card. I have put 400+ pictures on it and still had a bunch of space left yet. Of course I don't keep the pictures on the camera's memory, but empty it to this machine to some form of removable memory. Now we can rally organize all of them into folders. Eventually we will need more USB drives for all of them, but this is a start. Comparing the price of "normal" photography, the cost of each picture on digital is really low, even purchasing the USB drive. Like that part and we can do so much more with them in a digital format!
The only place that we found parking lots filled was at Wal*Mart and Fleet Farm. Both stores had enough folks on the check out lines to handle the number of customers without too much of a wait. Even Aldi's had some things on sale to close them out. We didn't go crazy and buy much other than what we went over for.
We were very surprised by the increase in the cost of a lot of food products. Suspect they are blaming the increases on the cost of fuel, but sure cuts down on what we bought. Some things we just do without. Fruit and vegetables are most affected it seems, but nothing is really a good buy anymore. What happened to paying $3.00 for a 100 pounds of potatoes?
Time to get what is left of this day a-going.
In Christ My Saviour,
Chris <><
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