Oak tall boy from 1920s?

[Rauville]

35?! I was crying the blues last night when it was hovering around 28 degrees! We Californians are spoiled like that.

If it's a change you need, you're welcome to come visit here.

Tonight: Mostly clear, with a low around -20. Wind chill values as low as -37. West northwest wind 7 to 9 mph.

[rockandrollrods]

I made a typo in my last post. I mention to say 48 degrees. Trust me, I am a wuss when it comes to cold. A sad, pathetic wuss.

[mart]

I made a type in my last post. I mention to say 48 degrees. Trust me, I am a wuss when it comes to cold. A sad, pathetic wuss.

LOL !! 

[bigwull]

Hey there R&RR !!  How are things out your way ??

At the moment,,,rain, rain, rain !!  Front stalled out so our temps stayed at 35 degrees !! But tonight its expected to be 26 degrees and then its going to get cold !! 
Same old stuff here !! Good luck in the job hunt !! If you can`t find anything in CA !! There is always Texas !!

Yeah lets all emigrate to Texas....big wide open spaces.....and No Broadband...... ......and when you try and phone someone who,s on dial up ...you can never get through......

[mart]

I talk on the telephone when its mandatory to do so !!

[frogpatch]

61 yesterday going down to 25 tonight. Ice followed by rain tomorrow. Yuck! 

[KC]

This is my home the past few days.  We had a major ice storm here in TEXAS!!!!!  It has been staying 26 at night and 34 day.  People this isn't snow...it is sleet piled up!!!!

In fact it caused a real problem at our home yesterday.  I kept smelling gas in the kitchen and we have an all electric kitchen!  I was getting ready to cook dinner and realized the gas was coming IN our stove vent that is supposed to take air OUT!!! (the stove is on an island in the middle of the kitchen so the vent goes under the house and out at ground level). The ice drifts against the house were over 3' and had covered over the gas meter and vent opening.  The cold made the piping move slightly and gas was escaping...and the only place to escape (being covered in ice) was through the vent pipe into our home.  So the hubs carefully (note the word carefully) chipped the ice away so the gas goes outside.  Gas Co. can't come out til next week because so many homes are without heat and bigger leaks than ours!!!

Our culdesac is the most popular around for the kids...sliding down the street and our yard is the steepest (remember you are in Texas) on trash can lids since the street is solid ice!!

[bigwull]

Kids sliding down the street  in the winter,..... tumbleweeds in the summer....Mmm!...interesting....

[mart]

Ha !! Everyone had flattened trash can lids when I was a kid !!  That handle slowed you down so we "fixed" it !!  Not many use the old style metal trash cans anymore !!  Cardboard boxes work well too !!

[bigwull]

I,ve a vivid memory.of having a large enamel oven tray strapped to my bum,.....so that me and it never parted company....

[Rauville]

OK, who remembers loading up the neighborhood kids on an old upside down car hood and getting pulled around town behind some willing and foolish driver?

[KC]

Rauville that sounds like fun!!!  We got pulled on large pieces of plywood roped to the car!  LOL

[mart]

On the rare occasions we got enough snow to do that,, I don`t remember anyone having a car !!  If it snowed once every 2 or 3 years we were lucky and usually it was just a sprinkle that piled up around the fencelines !! About once every 10 years we get an ice storm !!  Last one I was iced in and without power in an all electric house 4 days !!  It got a little cool !!

[cogar]

One winter we had an old refrigerator door ....... which was the fastest sled on the hill.

Similar to one like so..

[bigwull]

Was it a Kelvinator....cos if it was....thingymabob is looking for parts.....