Preparing for winter II

kmiller4

Hi All--
I'm a lady from America who has been following and enjoying this forum so much that I decided to join. I live in the central part of New York state about 50 miles from the southeast corner of Lake Ontario. We get tons of lake effect snow every winter-- usually somewhere between 125 and 150 inches (approximately 4-5 meters). Fortunately it is not all at once, but usually starts in November and sometimes continues through 'til May.

I work a full-time job and have a second occasional weekend job. The economy here in the US is not very good right now, and my husband has been out of work almost 2 years. I am blessed to have good job with some security.

We have 3 adult children who have gone out on their own. Two seem to show up periodically for help. One is very self-sufficient.
We also have 2 dogs (English Springer Spaniels) and a calico cat.

I have very much enjoyed all your posts and I'm working my way through the entire thread-- 250+ pages! I like to hear what people in other parts of the world do to prepare for winter and maybe I can share some of my preparations with you as well.

Being American, I understand most of what is said in the forum, however occasionally I struggle with some of the abbreviations and slang. For example OH. Can anyone clarify for me?

I hope you all have room in your forum (and in your hearts) for a new friend from the states:)

Kathy

mags50_2

Welcome Kathy

There's not too many of us up at this time in the morning....its 3am.,....but there will be lots in an hour or so to chat to

OH means Other Half i.e. husband, wife, partner....

Take care and welcome again

richardc1983

kmiller4 wrote: »

Hi All--
I'm a lady from America who has been following and enjoying this forum so much that I decided to join. I live in the central part of New York state about 50 miles from the southeast corner of Lake Ontario. We get tons of lake effect snow every winter-- usually somewhere between 125 and 150 inches (approximately 4-5 meters). Fortunately it is not all at once, but usually starts in November and sometimes continues through 'til May.

I work a full-time job and have a second occasional weekend job. The economy here in the US is not very good right now, and my husband has been out of work almost 2 years. I am blessed to have good job with some security.

We have 3 adult children who have gone out on their own. Two seem to show up periodically for help. One is very self-sufficient.
We also have 2 dogs (English Springer Spaniels) and a calico cat.

I have very much enjoyed all your posts and I'm working my way through the entire thread-- 250+ pages! I like to hear what people in other parts of the world do to prepare for winter and maybe I can share some of my preparations with you as well.

Being American, I understand most of what is said in the forum, however occasionally I struggle with some of the abbreviations and slang. For example OH. Can anyone clarify for me?

I hope you all have room in your forum (and in your hearts) for a new friend from the states:)

Kathy

Hi Kathy

Firstly a warm welcome to the forum... its nice to hear that other members from across the pond.

I'm on the nightshift so I am often to be found on the forum catching up.

This is probably one of the nicest threads going on here... you can feel the sense of spirit. I am actually looking fwd to winter cosy nights in etc nice warm fire etc.

Looking fwd to hearing some of your tips... there are a lot for you to catch up on here lol...

OH stands for "other half" partner, husband, wife whatever you wish to choose.

Any you dont understand just ask and i'm sure someone will answer.

Richard.

meg72

Hello Kathy. welcome.

Thats a hell of a lot of snow, glad we dont get that much.

I am looking forward to hearing how you prepare and cope with all that.:)

boultdj

:hello:Hello Kathy, and fipping heck! that's a lot of snow.

mummytoo

Welcome Kathy looking forward to hearing your winter preparations!!!!!!!! xxxx

mummytoo

Just had my new boiler installed old one broke and was really really old so parts were obselete so now have a fancy new one with wireless remote control woohoo !!!!!!!!!!!!feel like I ve moved into the 21st century!!!! roll on the winter now x

CH27

Hi Kathy:)

squeaky

Standard Abbreviations used on Old Style

Rainy-Days

Well not too much prepping for us this week we have had allot of correspondence to sort out. I am having a moan at O2 for cutting my phone off and I have done nothing wrong, they have admitted it is their fault and a rogue employee did it, but are offering me nothing by way of compensation for it. It took 27 telephone calls from our landline to get my phone reinstated - I know it's just unbelievable. So that complaint is off to the ombudsman. We have also had to do letters to OFWAT to keep our sewer private as well. The adoption scheme is being rolled out and we don't want our sewer publically adopting as the world his wife and his dog will be able to hook up and some of them round here are constantly getting blocked up.

Then yesterday DH noticed that the soakaway at the side of the house on one of the gutterings had dropped the block paving down so he lifted it up and found that the crock pipe that goes to the soakaway has been smashed and was probably done when the workmen were laying the blocks down 10 years ago :eek:. So he has lifted everything all out - blocks and everything - took the pipe away and is laying in a new one today. I suppose it is a good thing that he did find it when he did. So big job today on that.

I picked up the beau duvet yesterday from the launderette and it looks so bright and lovely again. Very pleased with that. I have also got dry the hot water bottle covers as well.

Left to do this month is cleaning the oven and fridge, brass, windows, washing throws and vacc'ing thoroughly the bedroom curtains. When we get back off holiday DH has just four things to do and then first week of October we are putting everything away and that is pretty much it for us.

The gates just look so fab now we have painted them. I didn't realise how shabby they looked prior to us doing them.

I am so debating when to wash the new flannelette sheets. I want them to smell freshly laundered when I put them on the bed at the begining of October, does anybody have any ideas on this? I did think about washing them now and sealing them in the vacuum bags to lock in the freshness - what do you think?