And the Cold Has Arrived

Not too much is going on.  Between covid and such cold temps, everyone is pretty much just hibernating. Tuesday and Thursday I played mahjong and said goodbye to Tom and Eileen.  They planned to leave on Valentine’s Day but with the weather moving in they decided to get in front of it and make it home to Florida.  They should be home now.

In honor of our cold weather we had tortellini soup from the freezer one night and chili another night.  Just to get out we went to Southern Fried for fish and chicken tenders.  Saturday was Mass, Cracker Barrel and then disappointment.  We went to a park that had advertised a show featuring a hypnotist plus dinner.  It said $20, $8 for only the show.  Not true!  It was a dinner and show package for only park residents.  No $8 show tickets.  Since we all live and die by The Winter Texan newspaper, it would be nice if the park social directors checked their write up on Thursday when the paper comes out.  Corrections could then be put on their Facebook page!  The lady apologized and we came home.  I will call parks from now on since this is the third thing that was canceled or advertised incorrectly.  First year this has ever happened.

We are, of course, concerned about these frigid temps both here and at home.  We shut the sprinkler system down and drained the backflow before we left.  Ted covered the outside faucets.  I can control the thermostat from here so I put the temp up just to be a little more careful.  We have Nancy and our friend Barry watching it all, meanwhile we are praying nothing bad happens.

We will have to drop our hose overnight and maybe even longer.  We are watching our weather station. Ted put water in our fresh water tank which is heated.  We will use that with the water pump to shower, do dishes, laundry and flush.  The rest will be bottled water.  Our furnace has been running constantly.  We stopped at Auto Supply to get diesel additive to keep the fuel from gelling during these freezing temps.  Now all we can do is wait and hope we don’t lose power.  We have a generator though if that happens.  

Just a touch of humor over all the concern about China.  I learned my first mandarin word!