Mistakes I've made this week !!

[RSKY]

Well we've been iced/snowed in for three days now. Could get out and go somewhere but spent so much time getting ready for this storm we thought we would just sit around for a few days. But I find that I have made a few mistakes.

The first one happened when we, that is SWMBO and I, decided to clean out the pantry. "Do you want this?" she asked as she handed me a three year old package of dried seven bean soup mix. I decided that it would be a good lunch and put it in a pot to cook. Then I ate the whole thing. By myself. She doesn't like soup. What I didn't eat for lunch I finished for supper.

She moved to another bedroom about 2 in the morning. Still can't walk from one end of the house to the other without sounding like a semi gearing down.

Second mistake was moving wedding supplies from my storage building's upstairs to the sunroom so she could work on them. (Not for any of ours, wife is putting on a wedding for somebody else that we don't even know. Long story.) Wife's idea was to pull the Toyota around and load everything in the back, then pull the car in the garage and unload it. Not a good idea I told her, easier to just carry everything across a hundred and fifty feet of glare ice. Easy to do when carrying a hundred pound box.

It was not pretty or graceful. Don't think there will be any permanent damage.

She is also sewing. It is my job to rethread the serger which I have done three times without sewing my fingers. But while helping her cut out a pattern (I am bored) I managed to stick a needle the way thru the little finger on my left hand. That was the third mistake.

I am very bored or I would not be typing this.

Maybe I can vacumn the house again.

RSKY

 

[k0ua]

Be careful with open flames in your immediate area.

 

[murphy1244]

Be careful with open flames in your immediate area.

New meaning to a Flame Thrower.

 

[newbury]

Seems like your complaining about cabin fever. The best way to fight it is to know it's coming. I can remember several times being snowed in for over a week in Vermont. We lived a mile in on a dirt road and the plows had no priority to get to us. We just dealt with it. Of course we had TV with 3 channels and indoor plumbing.

 

[chad22]

We got hit with an ice storm here in Cove Arkansas a few days ago. The power was off for those 2 days.

Power finally came back on at 6:00PM last night.

I had no other heat than the heat in my truck so I had to drive my truck around to stay warm.

I'm so glad it came back on sooner as it wasn't expected to be back on until 12:30 AM tomorrow night.

I slept out in my truck as it was warmer in the truck even without the heater on.

The house was like a freezer.

Chad

 

[Jtschnel]

She moved to another bedroom about 2 in the morning. Still can't walk from one end of the house to the other without sounding like a semi gearing down.

Laughing so hard my eyes are watering .. hard to type this

 

[2458n]

It is always hard to buy a cheap generator at a auction after one of those ice storms.

 

[oosik]

We are being hit with exceedingly cold weather. Thankfully no rain, freezing rain or ice. It is predicted to warm up and snow later this week. I always get a little nervous when it gets so very cold - I'm all electric here and loss of electricity could mean frozen water pipes. Never happened in the thirty years I've been here but I do have a wood stove for backup heat.

BTW - I once made 5 bean bread - had the same effect as your soup. Had to take a solemn oath - NEVER make it again.

 

[dmccarty]

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The first one happened when we, that is SWMBO and I, decided to clean out the pantry. "Do you want this?" she asked as she handed me a three year old package of dried seven bean soup mix. I decided that it would be a good lunch and put it in a pot to cook. Then I ate the whole thing. By myself. She doesn't like soup. What I didn't eat for lunch I finished for supper.

She moved to another bedroom about 2 in the morning. Still can't walk from one end of the house to the other without sounding like a semi gearing down.
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RSKY

Good thing you do not live in Chapel Hill, NC. It is against the law in that town for trucks to use a Jake Brake. You might have been arrested....

Just say'n. :laughing::laughing::laughing:

The ice went to the north of us and I don't think it was that bad up there. It has been raining for days and I am sick of it. Got lucky in that the rain stopped on Saturday which was good because I was working outside for my second job and it was COLD too. I was afraid I was going to be cold and wet. Not fun. The cold was bad enough. Raining again today and supposed to end today. I have a bunch of chores I wanted to get down in the last couple of days but it has been raining so much I have been expecting to see Noah...

Later,
Dan

 

[Gary Fowler]

We didn't get much precipitation from the storm but what fell was freezing rain and sleet. I had to go out in in Friday to the Doctor but refused to budge from the warm house for the next 3 days. A bit of sleet last night again but today it is nice and sunny which may warm us up from the 24F temps this morning, however at 9am it is still just 27F.
Speaking of beans, wife will rarely consent to cooking dry bean for me and when she does, she sleeps at the other end of the house. Beans and milk both have the same effect on me although the beans give off more odorous aroma than milk.

 

[CobyRupert]

I am very bored or I would not be typing this.

Maybe I can vacumn the house again.

RSKY

Just be careful. I've heard about a few guys having vacuum cleaner "accidents" when they're "bored". And it sounds like today is not your day.

Speaking of mistakes this week, after 20+ years of running a chainsaw I looked down to see myself pouring gas mix into the bar chain oil tank while refilling. Ughh! Stupid! Stupid! Stupid! Dumb**s! After calling myself names for a couple minutes, I just dumped it into a pan until I saw oil running back out. Oh well, it was 27 degrees F out, oil could use some thinning. I only wasted about 1.5 oz altogether, but making a stupid mistake like that did make me wonder how observant and ready I was to go operate the thing and drop trees if that how's the day's starting.

 

[Gunny]

Just be careful. I've heard about a few guys having vacuum cleaner "accidents" when they're "bored". And it sounds like today is not your day.

Speaking of mistakes this week, after 20+ years of running a chainsaw I looked down to see myself pouring gas mix into the bar chain oil tank while refilling. Ughh! Stupid! Stupid! Stupid! Dumb**s! After calling myself names for a couple minutes, I just dumped it into a pan until I saw oil running back out. Oh well, it was 27 degrees F out, oil could use some thinning. I only wasted about 1.5 oz altogether, but making a stupid mistake like that did make me wonder how observant and ready I was to go operate the thing and drop trees if that how's the day's starting.

Not that uncommon an accident. Years ago, I worked on small engines and sold Echo and Husqvarna products and there during woodcutting season, there wasn't a week go by that I didn't have at least chainsaw some in that someone had poured bar oil into the gas tank.

 

[i579rbd]

My buddies car was stuck in the mud. About a hour ago I pulled him out. While watching the right mirror didn't notice I slid a little bit sideways (left) and ran a 2 foot scratch down the side of my truck. No buffing that one out...