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Date Posted: 15:07:02 12/14/07 Fri
Author: Tina Swinimer
Author Host/IP: hlfx31-87.ns.sympatico.ca / 142.177.81.87
Subject: storms

My goodness Phyllis, I see by this mornings paper that you folks had a terrific storm. Hope you are safe and have elect. power. Whenever they predict a bad storm for here I fill 2 thermoses with hot water, if the power goes out I can add the hot water to canned soup, be sure you have a manual can opener-lol, or add it to coffee,hot choc. etc.
Ellie can just set her soup out in the sun if their power goes out for any reason-lol Right Ellie? I guess cold soup would even taste good in that heat-lol
I also have a few big plastic containers full of water standing on the floor of a bathroom closet at all times in case I need it for toilet flushing.I am certain you are like me with a good supply of candles and flashlights,I also have one of those new wind up radios and a wind up flashlight.Those I bought mainly for camping in summer.I was sick of buying batteries, these will also take batteries in case one gets lazy. They will go about 1/2 hour on a two minute wind-up.
We just got a few inches of snow overnight and supposed to get 4 inches of heavy snow this afternoon "the tail end of your storm Phyllis"
Ellie I suppose you are smelling the roses! Good for you.
Do you bother to plant a garden of veggies? I used to do that until these last few years,I still plant flowers if someone gives me roots of the kind that will come up every year.I sure got lazy these last few years.But I am still young...100 is getting old , 72 is young !

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[> Re: storms -- Phyllis, 01:24:46 12/16/07 Sun (pool-71-181-57-211.cncdnh.east.verizon.net/71.181.57.211)

Hi Tina & Ellie,

Tina, thanks for thinking of me and your tips on hot water.

Our last storm gave us 6 inches of snow and very slippery driving. I was lucky as Michael (my ex husband) drove me to my daughter's house as it was my 2 days in a row to watch Kaitlyn. It was a long day as I had to wait for him to give me a ride back. The driving was bad for 2 days.

Today starting late evening into all day Sunday, we are 100% sure that we are going to have a major Nor'Easter with a foot of snow or more with freezing rain in the mix. It does not sound good and I hope we do not lose power for any length of time. I worry about frozen pipes if that happens.

I am happy to report that both you and Ellie put me in the holiday mood and with Kaitlyn's help decorated my tree.
I also have written some of my Christmas cards. I have relatives in Germany and Italy so I made sure that those were written first. I plan to write the rest tomorrow as we will be homebound.

I baked 24 christmas cupcakes for Kaitlyn's party on Monday at her other sitter's house. The sitter is a dear high school friend of mine. She use to run a nursery school,but now only watches Kaitlyn and one other child.

Today, I went with my daughter and Kaitlyn to Kaleidoscope (this is a children's play area). I think I have mentioned it before. There is a play kitchen, pizza shop, fire engine, indoor slide, pet shop, beauty shop, puppet show area, dress up stage and painting area too. We had not been there for quite a while. After that we went for lunch at "Friendly's Restaurant. Then we went to visit Michael (Kaitlyn's Papo) at his apartment. He had his Christmas decorations up and had a Snowman Santa who sang a song.

After I came back home, I went out to buy some gas and groceries. It was late afternoon by the time I got home.
I don't think I will be doing much this evening as I am tired out from 3 days of sitting this week and running around all day today.

Ellie, I hope you are having good weather and enjoying your warm weather. You are probably getting ready for your son and family's visit soon.

Wishing you both a good week and will write again after our
snowstorm.

Phyllis

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