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I don’t remember seeing a double post  with a two and a half hour time delay with the old web hosting service.  🙂

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Just went out and did a little shoveling, I figure we got about an inch of craphas but it’s taking up about four inches of space. 😉

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I have -4 deg. this morning.

Sure glad I went out late yesterday afternoon and shoveled the drifts off of the drive. This morning I have a couple of new drifts to deal with and will have to get out the pole saw and remove a couple of branches that are hanging almost to the pavement.

There is no way that I can get the drive clear so I guess it’s just sand it and wait for Spring. 🙁

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We have about an inch of craphas on top of an inch of slush. Lost power about quarter to six, I have a generator running in the garage so I may get cold but the beer won’t get warm.

Just now the power came back on, though the estimate was about 11am.

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Here East of Sandland we have been getting a very light mist all morning. It is now getting a bit heavier but the temp. has also risen above freezing so I don’t have any reason to hunker down in the house other than I want to. 😎

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rawevil wrote:

jar42 wrote:

Whack a mole?? Actually it’s a little Pine Squirrel.

🙂 that’s funny!

These destructive little rodents are kind of fun to watch, the head pops up out of the snow and then a couple of seconds later it pops up again 10′ away. As long as he doesn’t pop up in your attic, that has been known to destroy more than a few homes and cottages. 🙁

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Whack a mole??

Actually it’s a little Pine Squirrel.

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I just finished shoveling my craphas. I measured it at 3+” but it seemed much deeper than that toward the end. I considered using the snowblower but this stuff shoveled so easily that I didn’t although the shovel DOES NOT have heated grips. 🙂

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Are ticks active in Texas year around ?

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The radar has been showing craphas falling here in East Sandland for the last four hours but I’ve yet to see a flake.

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The Happy Hodag! wrote:

What the heck is informed delivery, and how does one sign up for it? Just curious.

Just go to USPS and click on tools.

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amita17 wrote:

Chatauqua560 wrote:

Anyone else use the USPS Informed Delivery? Email shows scanned mail so you know what’s coming.

Does this happen to work in the other direction? Like, would I be able to see if something I sent was delivered? A postal person told me that they have services like having recipient sign for things, but I didn’t want to resort to that.

Nope.

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I use Informed Delivery but it can also trip you up when you get something that isn’t scanned like a magazine that could sit in the mailbox for a couple days.

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I was out playing in the craphas a bit, doing a little shoveling, messing with the bird feeders, etc. I noticed the mail person go by so I walked down to the mailbox and retrieved my letter. You know how to tell if a letter is junk mail ? If the envelope says ” To Be Opened By The Addressee Only” it goes directly into the paper recycling bin. 🙂

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What a pain in the a.. .

We only got about an inch of craphas here but with the ice from the recent melt on the drive it’s a real chore scraping it off. Also that ice seems extra hard, my carbide cleats just slide across it.

I’m thinking of going to the hardware and getting a couple of hundred pounds of ice melt and turning my driveway blue for the remainder of the winter. 🙂

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