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Comment, damned y'all. I'm under stress and maybe a little PTSD...

SNOW BAD

I can't comment , I think I got buried under some of your snow.

You cannot give in! Us women did not give in! (I find it kinda funny that my side of the street is largely populated by single women and gay men homeowners, and it was us out busting our shit today.) Other side includes nurses and teachers, and the teachers were out, the nurses were at work.

Good gracious, sarameg! That ice photo is truly shocking! I mean all those photos are shocking. But sheesh. But you`re doing the best you can and you have awesome neighbors and you will get through this.

I just got home from band practice where our leader announced he is going back home to Indiana in April. We already knew about it and agree that it`s the best thing for him longterm, but it is still sadmaking. It`s been a really good band, one of the best I`ve been in, and I`ve grown as a musician in it. It will continue in some form because the church needs somebody, but it won`t be the same.

Snow bad. Every street corner here has snow piles taller than me.

What a very long day, sarameg, but more proof that your neighborhood is great.

When we lived in the Chicago area, water started running down our walls from an ice dams in the gutters. My dad was out of town, and my sister and I were toddlers. My mother, born and raised in Nashville, called a neighbor. Mom and Pearl spent hours pouring boiling water in the gutters. Fifty years later, she still tells the story when she talks about what great neighbors we had there.

At one point, I had water boiling on stoves in 3 different houses, only 2 of which had roof access. It was a little insane. Who to burn down/CO poison?

But we managed. And more new friends now! No one believes I'm an introvert now. Still am, in mind, but.... I'm doing a passable example of an extrovert. AND hooking neighborhood peoples up with each other. It's weird.