This morning, for the 2nd morning in a row I did NOT want to get up. I reached over and got my IPad and it was still-13 in Wheaton. It's amazing how little you feel like getting done when there is no place to go. All the schools are closed, we have about 20" of light snow piled up. Ugg. I made sure I had enough of whatever I would need in store, so I am not going hungry. Sons got me three sleeves of coke, so I am OK!! One wall of my great room is all glass--five windows and a patio door facing north. There are shades that are inexpensive tubular "coffee filter" material but I never put them down. I did on Sunday night and it amazes me how much cold they filter out. The south wall also has 4 large windows but is the end of a U between the garage and bedroom wing of the house so it does not get as much "weather".There is a lot of ice built up on all the windows. I feel like I live in a translucent house. Well I guess I will make it one more day and then should be able to clean up whatever mess there is and go to the store. Add to the cold and snow is my inability to get my brace into any thing but Crocs and they are not show shoes. How thankful I am that this "polar vortex" held off until the wake and funeral for my sister in law were over. How many days is it until Spring? We have broken lots of weather records--isn't that comforting? Bet my gas and electric bills will break a few records too. Stay warm, Grace On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 9:39 AM, <Sullyshirl73@aol.com> wrote: > I love getting up and reading my e-mail, it's like getting a long letter > from someone you like, and you just know it's going to be interesting !!! > Doug, After my mother married for the third time, my mother and her new > husband, bought a home in a town named Azusa. It's about 40 miles outside > of Los Angeles, near the foothills of the San Gabriel mountains. It was a > brand new home, no lawns, just dirt our side, no fences, really no > nothing. > My step father was going to put in the front lawn, he had gotten some > mulch, > so the next thing was to dig up the ground and mix the mulch into it, > well, everywhere we dug, rocks, and more rocks. After about two week ends > of > digging,and removing rocks, he mixed in the mulch, he planted the grass > seed, > and for the first month or two, every time he water, little rocks kept > coming up in the new lawn. My stepfather told everyone that we grew > rocks, and > if you could have seen all the rocks we had piled up, you would have > believed it. Come to fine out, they built those homes on a old Rock > Quarry. LOL > Jeannie Your tale about the Mountain Lion !!!! Well, last week in the > foot hills, there was a Mountain Lion, one family caught a photo of the > Mountain Lion on their outdoor security camera, he was pretty big, and one > family had a dog ( a boxer, pretty good size) that disappeared. The man > kept > saying he might have run away, but they kept him outside, (you just know > that > mountain Lion got him) These same foot hills are always having Brown Bears > coming down into peoples yards in the heat of summer, they come down for > water, and some times they go swimming in peoples back yard swimming pools > !! We have all kinds of animals come out of our mountains !!! > Lisa Talking about eggs, last week we went shopping for my > sister-in-laws and the one thing they wanted was EB Egglands Best eggs, > the company > claim all kinds of things, like they are better than regular eggs, but > they do > cost a little more. Well, my husband said to me, "lets get some of them > for > ourselves too" now I usually buy the extra big regular eggs, but we did buy > some of those EB eggs ( each egg has EB stamped on it) I can't taste the > difference, but my husband who can't tell when milk has turned sour !!! > Said "he thinks they taste better than the eggs we usually buy !!! > Well, what do I do, get the eggs he thinks taste better, or go with the > eggs that are extra large, and are not so pricy ??? Don't tell me to buy > both, > what if I want to scramble them ??? > I woke up this morning not feeling good, last evening I had this hot > flash, my face turned bright red, and I felt my face, it was burning up > too. > I took my temperature and it was normal, so just put a washcloth, soaked > in > cold water on my face, till it felt cooler. I think I also got my face > sunburned yesterday when I was outside in the garden, I watered and than > pulled a few weeds, was just cleaning around some pots and, kind of > puttered > around, maybe out there for 45 minutes. Didn't even think about putting > any > sun lotion on my face ??? but will next time I go out !!!! > Well that's all for know folks, have to go !!!! > Sully in Sunny California > > > > > > > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mbousman1/memory.htm > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MEMORY-LANE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >