What did you do today? 2019 version.

[Music Lover]

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Originally Posted by Retiree_Having_Fun I've had problems with that when temperature gets very cold. Water from melting snow flows towards the door bottom. Only way I have figured to avoid is to pour some random sand at the door seal area - seems to elevate the door at the sand high points and only partially freeze and easily broken free.

I had the door freeze shut once...I poured some windshield washer fluid along the bottom and it melted the ice. Of course, that only works if your washer fluid is rated for cold temps.

[TromboneAl]

Colonoscopy today. That prep is brutal (even using the new Suprep).

For Valentine's day, I made Lena a jar of low-carb Nutella, which was weird timing.

[Retiree_Having_Fun]

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Originally Posted by Music Lover poured some windshield washer fluid along the bottom and it melted the ice.

Been there done that but my opener feels like it wants to rip the garage door top off the mountings when the door is frozen to the bottom seal. So the sand has to be a preemptive solution. Also don't want to use salt since it seems to destroy the concrete finish.

Probably people in California and Florida has no concept of this problem as we don't concern ourselves with the ground shaking or hurricanes.

[Koogie]

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Originally Posted by TromboneAl Colonoscopy today. That prep is brutal (even using the new Suprep). For Valentine's day, I made Lena a jar of low-carb Nutella, which was weird timing.

[pacergal]

Spent the morning with DD, starting the packing for their move into their first house! It is so exciting to watch your kids experience significant milestones. She is also pregnant, so we will have a new grand baby this year!

[braumeister]

On a whim, I walked in to my local Kroger and asked at the pharmacy if they had any Shingrx shots available. I had the first one in October so I'm due for #2 about now.

They had 12 available and ten minutes later I walked out, mission accomplished.

No pain or reaction whatever from the first one, so this should be the same. So nice to have that taken care of.

[Dawg52]

I'm at my beach condo for a few days. Great weather so rode the bike for a couple of hours. And took the dog on a couple of walks. Going to let the Valentiners have the restaurants tonight.

[NW-Bound]

Another overcast and drizzly day. So, I stayed inside, ate a big bowl of homemade chili for lunch, and surfed the Web to continue to flesh out my Spain-Portugal trip in 2 months.

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Originally Posted by braumeister On a whim, I walked in to my local Kroger and asked at the pharmacy if they had any Shingrx shots available. I had the first one in October so I'm due for #2 about now. They had 12 available and ten minutes later I walked out, mission accomplished. No pain or reaction whatever from the first one, so this should be the same. So nice to have that taken care of.

Two shots for shingles? They did not tell me about this after I had my 1st one last year.

[NYEXPAT]

Met the young wife at her office today, took her out to lunch at the best steak restaurant in the city, When she gets home from work we will take the kids out for ice cream. Here it is considered a day of friendship as well, so we need to include the family. It was great reminiscing about our 16 years together!

[Souschef]

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Originally Posted by braumeister On a whim, I walked in to my local Kroger and asked at the pharmacy if they had any Shingrx shots available. I had the first one in October so I'm due for #2 about now. They had 12 available and ten minutes later I walked out, mission accomplished. No pain or reaction whatever from the first one, so this should be the same. So nice to have that taken care of.

I got mine yeaterday and my arm is sore. DW got hers today and she is OK. They will call us in 2-6 months for the second shot.

[Accidental Retiree]

Left the Texas Hilll Country after a 10 day visit there and to South Texas. On arrival in Fredericksburg, I got hit with the worst, longest-lasting cold I have ever had and finally realized today, when my brains stopped melting out through my nose, right about in Ozona, that I have had not a cold but the dreaded cedar allergy.

REWahoo, is that on your list?

I never knew what an allergy was.

We’re now in Van Horn, and the weather is lovely, and I can breathe again.

Happy Valentine’s Day!

[REWahoo]

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Originally Posted by Accidental Retiree Left the Texas Hilll Country after a 10 day visit there and to South Texas. On arrival in Fredericksburg, I got hit with the worst, longest-lasting cold I have ever had and finally realized today, when my brains stopped melting out through my nose, right about in Ozona, that I have had not a cold but the dreaded cedar allergy. REWahoo, is that on your list?

No, cedar fever isn't spelled out individually. The list of hazards got so long that I had to draw the line somewhere, so it's covered under the broad category of "polluted air".

[NW-Bound]

OK, I found out that what I had must be the older Zostavax, and not the newer Shingrix.

Shingrix is said to be more effective, but requires two shots, and causes muscle pain at the injection site in addition to sometimes more serious complications.

[braumeister]

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Originally Posted by NW-Bound Shingrix is said to be more effective, but requires two shots, and causes muscle pain at the injection site in addition to sometimes more serious complications.

Probably for some, but certainly not for me. No pain, no reaction of any kind.

[W2R]

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Originally Posted by REWahoo No, cedar fever isn't spelled out individually. The list of hazards got so long that I had to draw the line somewhere, so it's covered under the broad category of "polluted air".

Real Texans like REWahoo just take cedar fever for granted, but I agree with Accidental Retiree, it's utterly miserable.

[daylatedollarshort]

We saw a play for a Valentine's date night out.

[Music Lover]

I did 2 things yesterday that I've never done before:

1. Went inline skating...after a comical start I got the hang of it (I know how to skate from playing hockey) and ended up doing okay.

2. I cooked a couple steaks using briquettes. I've used propane all my life but the condo we're staying at only has a briquette barbeque. The steaks were tremendous, and when we get back home I may look into buying a different barbeque.

[Walt34]

Finally finished both tax returns and e-filed the federal a few days ago but had to wait for some forms to be completed for state. Those came in yesterday, so I finished up that and snail-mailed it out today. TurboTax wants $20 to e-file and that ain't gonna happen.

Then on to a minor grocery run and home.

Here's where the "tempting fate" comes in. At the moment the outside temperature is 61° F and looking ahead at the forecast it doesn't seem that any appreciable amount of snow is possible even though some "wintry mix" is forecast for Sunday & Sunday night. But temps later on are in the forties so whatever happens won't be around for long.

So I took the large snow blower out of the garage and back to the shed and drained all the fuel & oil out of it in preparation for storage. Found out my grease gun was empty and I had forgotten to get another cartridge. So I'll have to get one before I can finish "summerizing" it. In the meantime of course I'm betting that we won't get enough snow to justify refilling with fresh oil & gas. I wanted to leave it empty of oil because leaving it in the "service position" standing up on the front for long means there is a small possibility of an oil leak all over the floor in the shed. There are other items inside that need regular oiling and greasing in there between seasons as well so I'll have to get to that later.

My back hurts like the dickens from sitting on the concrete floor and leaning forward to work on the machinery. I took half a Percocet and one Tylenol to ease the pain from that, it seems to be working. My body isn't as flexible as it used to be.

Oh, and on the way back from the grocery store we saw an estate sale going on at the home of a lady about our age that we knew slightly from living a few blocks away. Turns out she developed early onset dementia and is now in full nursing care. No more than two months ago we saw her out walking for exercise as she frequently did. That's scary.

[KCGeezer]

I empathize with you Walt. Yesterday was 58 at the lake house. I got three cracks in the area between the retaining wall and the house on the uphill side cleaned out and new waterproofing applied. Scrubbing with wire brush and chipping a few places out. It was down to 35 when I got back to the house in the city.

Today, 1st round of shoveling is done. Hopefully only get another inch or two and it’ll stay light and fluffy. Where’s a teenage kid when you need one?

[MRG]

Woke up to a new batch of snow wet, heavy, and deep. Our neighborhood was a bunch of old people out playing in the snow and having fun. Neighbors were snowshoeing and xcounty skiing around the road. We got unburied and eventually tried to go out for lunch before our road was plowed. DWs little Wrangler goes pretty well but it's lighter and gets thrown around by heavy snow.

Unfortunately other people didn't have adequate traction and messed it all up. A couple of folks closed down two roads. Neither vehicle should have been out in the conditions.

I had to back up a quarter mile and it was all the jeep wanted to do. I didn't want to get it sideways and in the ditch. We went out a different way, there wasn't much traffic out.[emoji12] An hour later it was a little better and they had plowed our development.

The party outside has been replaced by people digging out.