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It seems as if winter is about to return to the Ohio valley, with temperatures in the 30s and 40s expected for the weekend. Speaking of which, this weekend should be relatively quiet - the first one in several weeks (because of all the holiday activities). I might even be able to kick back and watch some football.

earendel wrote:It seems as if winter is about to return to the Ohio valley, with temperatures in the 30s and 40s expected for the weekend. Speaking of which, this weekend should be relatively quiet - the first one in several weeks (because of all the holiday activities). I might even be able to kick back and watch some football.

It's nice that you have a free weekend.

Maddie's quiz bowl team found out that they had already qualified for Nationals in October, so the are no longer going to a competition in San Diego this weekend. This means that I had don't have to spend my Saturday chaperoning/driving.

While I like quiz bowl, I am happy about it, because it will give me a free day to work on cleaning out the garage.

PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:While I like quiz bowl, I am happy about it, because it will give me a free day to work on cleaning out the garage.

That's too much like work - although elwing does have a house project planned - her women's mission group is meeting at our house in February and she wants to go through each room and do some extra cleaning and such.

earendel wrote:

PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:While I like quiz bowl, I am happy about it, because it will give me a free day to work on cleaning out the garage.

That's too much like work - although elwing does have a house project planned - her women's mission group is meeting at our house in February and she wants to go through each room and do some extra cleaning and such.

I like to do my Spring Cleaning in January and February, so the when it's warm I can go outside and play.

Also, we are reorganizing a bit.

It started out because Maddie's mattress is old and started sagging. Rather than buy her a new mattress, we bought ourselves a new mattress and are giving her our old one, which isn't very old.

Jeff also got his Crosswords check and is using the money to buy a fancy massage chair from Brookstone. We really didn't have a spot for it, so we are getting rid of the second desk in the retreat and moving an antique marble table out of the corner, where it was being used as a printer stand, to be next to the chair. I just bought a small cabinet to hold the printer, plus store the stuff I kept in the desk. I am using the furniture moving as a motivator to thoroughly go through paperwork in the retreat, which is really like an office.

PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:

earendel wrote:It seems as if winter is about to return to the Ohio valley, with temperatures in the 30s and 40s expected for the weekend. Speaking of which, this weekend should be relatively quiet - the first one in several weeks (because of all the holiday activities). I might even be able to kick back and watch some football.

It's nice that you have a free weekend.

Maddie's quiz bowl team found out that they had already qualified for Nationals in October, so the are no longer going to a competition in San Diego this weekend. This means that I had don't have to spend my Saturday chaperoning/driving.

While I like quiz bowl, I am happy about it, because it will give me a free day to work on cleaning out the garage.

Do you actually park a car in your garage? When we visit SoCal I notice a lot of people really do not use their garage for parking cars. Maybe I am tainted because Margaret's sister in Orange County only parks one car in their two car garage and they have done this ever since I first visited their home 30 years ago. Another sister that lives in Oceanside has a three car garage and parks 0, nada, zilch cars in the garage.

I am thinking of getting a heater for my garage. Lots of people up here have heaters in their garages.

kusch wrote:

PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:

earendel wrote:It seems as if winter is about to return to the Ohio valley, with temperatures in the 30s and 40s expected for the weekend. Speaking of which, this weekend should be relatively quiet - the first one in several weeks (because of all the holiday activities). I might even be able to kick back and watch some football.

It's nice that you have a free weekend.

Maddie's quiz bowl team found out that they had already qualified for Nationals in October, so the are no longer going to a competition in San Diego this weekend. This means that I had don't have to spend my Saturday chaperoning/driving.

While I like quiz bowl, I am happy about it, because it will give me a free day to work on cleaning out the garage.

Do you actually park a car in your garage? When we visit SoCal I notice a lot of people really do not use their garage for parking cars. Maybe I am tainted because Margaret's sister in Orange County only parks one car in their two car garage and they have done this ever since I first visited their home 30 years ago. Another sister that lives in Oceanside has a three car garage and parks 0, nada, zilch cars in the garage.

I am thinking of getting a heater for my garage. Lots of people up here have heaters in their garages.

No, we don't park in the garage.

I want to park my car in the garage but I do not. We have a one car garage that you can drive straight into and a two car garage that you have to turn to get into. Jeff's car would barely fit into the smaller garage, but it doesn't have an automatic garage door opener, so he didn't get into that habit when we moved into the house. It's next to impossible to fit two cars in the larger garage because the turn is so sharp. I have put the Tahoe into the garage, but if Jeff parks in the driveway, then I have to move his car to get my car out.

Since we seldom park in the garage it has become cluttered. There is old furnture, old clothes, and old printers that I need to deal with. We also keep the rabbit cage in the garage and they have a habit of throwing their hay out of the cage.

So you park in a driveway. I bet you drive on a parkway too.