Over 20 is a heat wave for us, and over 30 comes when we get what we refer to as a January Thaw, which is really a figment of our imagination but we get kinda psychotic in the winter, and think things are thawing....like a mirage. We are due to get a few days over freezing...then back to the 20 to -20 range....we have a long way to go....light at the end of the tunnel is St. Patty's day.

At least we did not get a 6.5 earthquake! Heh, heh, my sister just moved out there....

I will take the cold over the earth moving under my feet.

The only time the earth moved under my feet was when I was in love, or had an attack of vertigo (which I had recently-gosh that sucked.)

Well given how cold Europe and China are, I hope we did not mess up the Thermohaline Current with all that glacial melt. We will be in for an ice age then....ugh. Moving south won't help much....poor oranges look so bad.

All right, cycleops, that's the second time you've given me an ear worm--the first time was when you started the booger discussion and I heard Jethro Tull in my head singing "snot is running down his nose, greasy fingers smearing shabby clothes" for three days! Now I'm gonna be hearing Carole King singing "I feel the earth move under my feet, I feel the sky tumbling down..." for who knows how long.

At least it wasn't Sound of Music!! "The hills are alive......" or Do a deer, a female deer, Ray a golden drop of sun....Mi a name I call myself...."

Sorry about the Aqualung thing....you just reminded me of when I went to Jethro Tull live....gosh, that was another life time ago, before I started spitting up my lungs too. Ah the golden years....am I there yet?

Aqualung is rather appropriate for me lately....dry coughing up a storm (For a while I thought it was quitting the narcotic pain reliever, but it has been 4 months...no such luck, it is getting worse, and I have lung scarring from years ago, so who knows? Trying to avoid glowing in the dark from another CT.)

...so.... hubby decided to smell good for work this morning and used Old Spice body spray...dam near killed me. I hacked extra enthusiastically because I hate that junk anyway....stinks. He likes it. We have agreed to disagree, but I won't take it lying down. Anyway he was unimpressed with my gasping, hacking and other sound effects.

Lately I have to use a mask to use even 'green' cleaning products....oh and here is the epitome of stupidity. I am planning a small redo of my kitchen, (not the stupid part-not yet anyway, but the small redo is getting bigger which is quintessentially dumb) since my kids got me a dishwaher, and it will require some cabinet and potentially a lay out change, now is the time to do what we want....sort of. It is hard to remodel when home values are still dropping, much wringing of hands....let's do this, no let's not. You get the picture??

Anyway, in my usual way of approaching things as fun, I am having a blast with this, since my one daughter's BF is an architect....one of those 'green' ones. He has helped me with planning and I love a lot of what he planned for me. I love his houses too, but we can't afford to build...because no one is buying houses around here, so we are all frozen in place basically, in more ways than one. But if I could sell mine and find land for less than a small fortune, I would build one of his designs in a heart beat. We have 2 acres zoned Ag, in an area where is it very hard to get small tracts like this. Plus I am in a State Park border area, no more development. Most land here is sold off in 35 acre hunks due to Farmland Preservation and most small tracts are taken. So I am stuck in a dated trilevel....which I have to learn to love, because I love having the land, of which we 'garden' an acre. My dogs rule the other acre, so you have to watch where you walk.

So, here is the stupid part, I decided to purge, condense and organize..... Yesterday, I decided to grind up all the jalepenos I dried last fall....the nice organic ones I grew in my 'garden' (small farm). I wore a mask, but the house had pepper dust floating in it for an hour. I am my own worst enemy some days. Cough, cough. Cleaned out my sinuses very well.

It is fine now. Cough, cough. My dogs were more concerned with me than hubby. It's fine, he is really a dear man, and has learned to glean entertainment value from my 'activities'. I can't blame him. Now and then he gets to effect a rescue...plus, he washes MY clothes now....ok, well, I still need to clean the toilets, after all, he is a guy...somethings don't change and that is OK.

What you have so 'colourfully' described of your recent bout of uncontrollable inhalant/nasal outburst is what we backwoods intellects refer to as : LOOGEYBOOGERS

I was green long before people were greem,hmmm or perhaps not.
I must see the Dr. tommorow about staying on IVIG,I hope so,since my children have left to far away places,and I do niss them so,the 6th floor has
become a wonderful suppore group.I like C and so many others I must say
IVIG helps and it works well why, don't know if I care so much anymore ,it just does. I don't like these days,but i'm glad we are all coimg to
visit again. ok i;m asking for your good wishes, sometimes that's hard for me. The pipes in the doowstairs bathroom froze ,since that happened
to me.. hope this happens to anyone anywere.. well I going to adopt a not sure yet. Bless ya all dudes. Sue

Hope it all goes well for you Sue! Here is wishing you the best.

Sending you good thoughts and great wishes Sue!

Why oh why, cycleclops, do some men just not understand that women HATE OLD SPICE? (assuming that they might care a little if women find them unpleasant, and there is about zero chance that a gay man would EVER wear Old Spice, so that is never the issue)

Oh, and good news--the Carole King ear worm went away more quickly than usual. I had rehearsal with my mandolin orchestra last night so the last piece we practiced is the one that's stuck in there now. Not better or worse, but at least not your fault.