I love Michigan...

Self | January 7, 2014 | madison10

[Awgie]

Love michiganders but not Michigan. Left flint for tampabay in 1974. Best thing I ever did.

[stayathomemom]

I lived in Menominee for four years. We moved away about 24 years ago, already. Experienced a really wonderful blizzard while we were there. We had 6’ drifts on our driveway! We lived on Green Bay in “the house with the elevator”. One winter evening we watched the full moon rise over the perfectly still waters of the bay. A mist was rising from the water. It was a beautiful sight. The next morning the bay was frozen over.

[MomwithHope]

I have a 10 pound maltese mix too, he has been having a miserable time. I haven’t been walking him for 3 days, just clip the leash on him (it’s a long one) and send him out the door. He limps because the ground is so cold. I was excited to see a +1 degrees this morning. We have been in this house for 30 years, had it built, 2X6 construction and super insulated. Have a LP gas furnace and a woodstove. This is the first winter where we could have a good fire going and the furnace was still turning on occasionally. We are really going through the wood and should have twice as much next year in case we get another inter like this.

[madison10]

Poor little baby! Yea, isn’t it great to see the thermometer ABOVE zero?

I love how wood feels when it burns (kerosene feels warmer, too) Just warmer feeling.

[madison10]

We had a pipe burst. It was weird as it was coming from ABOVE the shower so we thought it was an ice dam. Nope. the pipe was just squirting up. Water was coming down like a small water fall inside the linen cupboard. All of this was around 11:30 last night when I went to take a shower.

Fortunately it happened while we were awake and my husband was able to cap it until this morning. The area needs insulation so while the shower is torn apart we’re going to try to get some.

Prepare: Extra pipes, pipe gunk, and tools nearby.

listen to your wife when she says to leave the water dripping)

[stayathomemom]

I ran errands yesterday morning and came back home to no hot water at my kitchen sink. It was running everywhere else and there was no evidence of burst pipes anywhere. With the help of two heating pads wrapped around the hot water lines and a 60 watt incandescent bulb heating the space under the sink, I had hot water again in about three hours. I left the cupboard open last night, but I think a cat closed it. I have left a heating pad in there, too. I think it is the coldest area of my house. We need to do a little more insulating there.