Well if that wasn't bad enough I woke up to a broken pipe under the kitchen sink. BUT the plumber came as promised and fixed everything, i.e. the washing machine and replaced the kitchen sink pipe.
Fingers crossed I don't have a new surprise tomorrow since we're in for another night of record low temps. 
Are you in an area that is having the cold temps? If so, maybe some part of the
You might want to leave the faucet on so there is just a trickle of water - that will keep the pipe from freezing.Well if that wasn't bad enough I woke up to a broken pipe under the kitchen sink. BUT the plumber came as promised and fixed everything, i.e. the washing machine and replaced the kitchen sink pipe.
Thanks but I had every faucet in the house on a slow drip last night. The temp. was -24 when I woke up and -51 with the windchill.
If the trickle doesn’t work a couple of other things you could try. Pour antifreeze into the drain when you are done using the water for the night. Buy some foam tape and wrap the pipe. Or do what I did when we had two days of -30 actual temp years ago and my furnace was out for 28 hours. For that period of time every fifteen minutes I ran every faucet in the house. Survived that nightmare without a frozen pipe.Thanks but I had every faucet in the house on a slow drip last night. The temp. was -24 when I woke up and -51 with the windchill.
I didn't get one last year at the previous job because the 
supervisor denied it. So glad I left that toxic place. I get the bonus in my next paycheck. I guess that New Year's Eve tradition thing of putting a jar of money outside the front door before midnight and bringing it in on New Year's Day does work 
Congrats, that’s wonderful!I got a work bonus
I wish I had known about that tradition sooner.I guess that New Year's Eve tradition thing of putting a jar of money outside the front door before midnight and bringing it in on New Year's Day does work
Oh well, there's always next year.
You know...it's home. Like, the weather absolutely can suck in the winter and summer, and I'll complain about it, but I wouldn't want to live anywhere other than the Chicago area, because I've got a weird, inexplicable love for it. I know people move far away, but for me, the idea seems like taking away a person I love.
In the late afternoon I tried a new recipe for fudgy chocolate chip brownies - oh so gooey and delicious.
neely
, California has seasons too, just not as pronounced as it is elsewhere farther North or East.
kittyluv387
, the extreme weather of central Texas (Fort Worth) was just one reason why I could not wait to get out of there. Puddles were frozen during the winter and summer temps of 100F with 98% were certainly extremes, no?
It really hasn’t been too cold here for the last 3 years. Although the weather fluctuates really wildly here depending on region. I live by Addison and it hasn’t been frozen or snowedI was not talking about people now who have grown up in the cold/hot places. Of course it's home. I meant the White people who first came over from Europe and went to places where they had those extremes temps and why they stayed there instead of to keep going until they found a place with less extreme conditions, more like what they had at home. The people who came from Europe then did not have those extreme conditions due to the gulf stream warming the North Atlantic and the North Sea which in turn kept the land from getting so very cold.
Regarding pulling up one's roots: people do it all the time, I did and I was an adult. Then there are the snowbirds, mostly older people who move to places like Florida, Arizona and California and Oregon to get away from the cold. No, I don't want to move to Nevada but I don't have any choice. I need to be closer to family due to age and I can't afford California anymore.
for the last 3 years. It’s still very hot here for 3 months out of the year but the dessert heat is worse and I hear the east coast gets pretty bad. Of course it’s not as good as Southern California but it could be worse.
A different type of lens had to be put in my safety glasses and it cost less than what I had originally paid so I got the difference back 
