DH seems to be freaked out by our recent weather problems. I think because of the extremes of snow and wind, and now RAIN and wind he acts like we are all going to float away or blow away. We have many trees around the house and fir cones are always hitting the roof. (they are small). In recent winds we've had a couple good size limbs hit the roof too. This whole weather episode makes DH want to "go home" even more than usual.
In general DH is alot more antsy lately, much more anxious. Anyone else feel their ADLO is very reactive to the weather?
Yes, my DH comments every day that it's "ugly, grey out there" "there's no color" "icky, icky day". We haven't had much sun lately. Doesn't want to get out of bed to go to daycare, etc. It seems to me he's having the reaction of a "normal" person, but about 100 times stronger. It's funny, I remind him how we used to make fun of my Mom, who wouldn't go out in rain. We used to say she was made of sugar, and afraid she'd melt. Now he sounds just like she did--64, but sounds 94. I think part of it may be the retirement factor--before, he had a career he loved and would literally go thru rain, sleet, storm (no, he didn't work for the Post Office) without a second thought. But everything was so different then...
Maybe its all the chilling cold and/or barometric pressures affecting their body. my DH even here in mod temps yr round gets shakey cold if hes without a jacket in A/c or outside if winds are blowing. never saw such reaction to minimum cold before. plus we know their eyesight and perceptions are affected by AD so maybe the gray non colors are visually impaired in their eyes..the 'going home' well thats a whole nother matter..that was the one most annoying thing my DH used to do was the 'home' bit...it was exhausting and lasted yrs. i am soooo glad that phase is over! divvi
New Realm, have you dried out any up there? The flooding in Kalama I assume was the downtown area. We were fortunate in Vancouver that the worst of the heavy rains went north. I truly feel bad for all the people flooded.
My husband has not desire to get up in the morning - sleeps 10 hrs or more a night. I am lucky if I can get to sleep by 2am - tired but can't fall asleep. I think if he had a reason to get up he would. This cold, rainy, overcast weather doesn't help the mood any either. We just returned in December after 6 months in Nevada where we had sunshine everyday.
We can now see the ground at camp Kalama (RV park). It's drying out pretty well after having 5+ feet of water in it. Our city water system was overwhelmed and damaged. City workers had to bring us bottled drinking water up on the hill because the pumping system was a mess. We were on water usage restrictions for 4-5 days and the BOIL water order was just lifted yesterday afternoon. What a pain that was. I live on the hill so we weren't directly affected by flooding here at the house.
Speaking of weather woes.... 40 below here this AM..... Looks like this cold is socked in for the rest of the week. Northern Mn. Even our girls (dogs) make going outside to go potty a short trip. Tom over re-acts to the weather but I found my reaction can lessen his anxiety.
cold you say? I chopped three dogs off fire hydrants this morning lol if I hear my LO say one more time "I'm cold" I think I'll have a beer,I hear this from sun up to sundown
Yeah, I actually had to put on a light jacket this morning to walk down to the gate to pick up the newspaper -- about plus 44 degrees, which is considered a coolish morning here in sunny Florida.
its in the 20's at nite here in tx. thats super cold for us. just as i was 'considering' walking on my treadmill since marsh/GC are going to exercise now..thought that was a really good idea. well, i guess 'subconcious sabotage' hit i twisted my ankle yesterday and now i am lucky to do housework for a bit.much less chase after my hooligan.ugh..always excuses!:) divvi
I brought some of my budding orchids in last night. After waiting a year for the bloom I don't take chances. I had to hunt down a long sleeved shirt to wear to study group today.
divvi, I'm glad you were considering joining marsh and me in our exercise pact -- maybe after your twisted ankle is better? I got in my 50 minutes last evening -- about three and a half trips around our five acres, picking up a few downed palm fronds etc. as I went along. Overcast because of a front moving through, so no beautiful sunset or graceful flocks of birds to watch. But lots of robins all day long with their heads cocked, listening for worms -- how do they do that?
GC- i dont know bout hearing for worms but i feed all the critters round here and i swear the robins and bluejays sit on my glass door outside railings and try to get MY attention every morning to feed them bread.(which i do of course)..and the squirrels well...those little devils are sooo spoiled on sweet corn on the cob...they knock! on my kitchen balcony glass door when they want food..its so cute and i try to cut them off but i cant resist those faces.. i am a sucker for animals in need.-divvi
Where I live they celebrate the cold ? I said they as in the town I live in. This week is 30 plus below with wind chills of 50 below and schools are closed and the town is holding their annual Freeze Yer Gizzard Ice Box Days this week.
My husband girls (dogs) and I are staying in our little warm cabin in the woods. I use "aroma therapy" on days like this to keep everyone happy about staying inside.
freeze yer gizzard festival..thats a first for me:) what i'd be freezing in that kind of weather has nothin to do with gizzards::)) whew i cant imagine that cold. Divvi
We didn't get that bad - only minus 1 this morning, now up to +6. Fortunately, it's a bright, sunny day. I spent the morning walking around some land we want to put in a conservation easement. DW stayed at the Adult Day Care center. I don't know what I would do without that.
In WV we are expecting a big snowstorm. Most like will be mild compared to many of you in the North, but big for us. Big for us is anything over 4". Schools will be closed and roads will be slick.
We're under an Ice Storm Warning here in North Texas from 6PM tonite until noon Wednesday. I'd rather have a foot of snow than freezing rain and ice :-(
It's those single digit temperatures, along with those with minus signs before them, AND non-stop snow, ice, and freezing rain for 9 out of 12 months that made us move to Florida. I could not take one more New England winter. It was the best move for us, because Sid, even with his bad diabetic foot, can get out every day and enjoy the weather, even if it's just eating lunch on the patio. Which we do at least 3 or 4 times a week. Low 80's and sunshine today.
When I lived in New England, anything above 30 degrees was a heat wave to me. After 2 1/2 years in Florida, I'm cold if the temperature goes below 70.
I remember the fall we worked in Florida - when the temp went below 70 the long pants, sweaters and winter coats came out. We were still in shorts and t-shirts.
We have spent the last two days shoveling snow. Plowman called Friday and asked DH if we needed our drive plowed and DH told him no???????? So Sat he called and said he was on his way over about 12:30 and at 3:30 he called to say do you have a shovel up there. So I went down and helped him get unstuck with the truck and he decided to try to get up to the top once. Just at that moment DH was in the Jimmy driving down because he didn't know where I was apparently and came looking for me.?????? So Plowman had to stop and try to back up and got super stuck and we had to shovel again. Now it is dark and we can't get it, it's too deep and plowman is cold now so I had to drive him home and leave his truck stuck in the road. Had to leave our truck down by the big turn. This morning plowman called and I had to go move our truck so he and his dad in the backhoe could get by and get his truck out. So they did that and the backhoe made it up the hill finally after back and forth a bunch. But he couldn't get any traction even with the backhoe and left big piles of snow with his bucket. . At one point I had been down and back up with the Jimmy but now with the big piles, I don't think I could get over them without highcentering. So here we are with the truck still down by the big turn, plow truck at the bottom and we are at the top unable to get out without walking down the hill. DH looked out this morning and said how did that truck get there? He had completely forgotten the whole episode of the day before. Now I'm trying to get someone else with a big blower to come but no one calls me back. I feel like I'm living the movie called the Shining with an older Jack.
We live in Wyoming just south of Jackson Hole. We are getting dumped on although today we had a little break for a few hours. My parents live 25 miles south of us but they are in their 80's, very with it for their age but not able to drive much and wouldn't be much help shoveling, (hee hee). Stepson lives in CA, my son in Japan in the military and daughter in Butte, Mt. So we just try to manage. I'm practicing meditation on the run as swearing silently hasn't helped.
Poor Jules! I assume that at that latitude you do have supplies tucked away. This is one helluva winter, that's for sure. And I was pitying myself for not be able to take my husband out for a drive since the sidewalk's not shovelled wide enough for his walker!!
I just laid in a huge supply of toilet paper! Every place has it's down side but come June there's no place better to be. One has to get out for a drive no matter where you live or you go stir crazy. Hopefully the sidewalk will be cleared tomorrow so you can go. I'll send you some pixie dust to help.
6 a.m. here in WV and I see our schools are closed for the day. I looked out and see maybe 3" of snow. We have lots of school busses and rural roads and is is dangerous to be on the road when icy. My granddaughter teaches in VT and she says we are a bunch of wimps. Course she is under 25 and at that age you see through rose-colored glasses.
Here in the deep south (Georgia) we have foggy conditions and 44 degrees F this morning. Rain is forcast for tomorrow. It might get up to 60 degrees F this afternoon before the rain starts.
Reporting in from Vancouver, Canada. We had 3 weeks of snow, 3 weeks of fog, 3 days of sun, and now we're back to snow and overcast. It encourages me to stay in and get the mss. of my husband's essays finished and mailed. Rain forecast for tomorrow.
wintry mix for us here in central TX. and we know nothing of driving in any icy condition! i am trying to get DIL to leave work early today and get the grandgirls today so i dont have to get out in the mess. the traffic will be horrific on top of it..i dont mind rain/or cold but not together! divvi i know, whine whine -i have no clue what its like to live in snow..only ski in it:)
Snow has hit us again in the Pacific NW...naturally on the day we were to join friends for a lovely lunch downtown ):-(. Stuck on the hill one more time, and it triggered a yelling, throwing session for G. Just what is needed on an inside day!
Freezing rain, ice, snow, rain - we have it all in Kentucky today! No problems with my DH though. We had to drop our SUV off for repair - so have no vehicle today. But he's fine to just play games on his laptop and I told him he could chop veggies later this afternoon.
Ice storm here in North Texas. They are comparing it to the last big one in 2003, and rush hour commuters can expect a half inch of ice :-( My son has a 25 mile commute with a big steep hill to navigate.
Like I said before, I would prefer a foot of snow compared to ice :-(
Beautiful but cold here in Rhode Island, but they say snow before daybreak tomorrow. I went out to try to widen our sidewalk to the street and it's just frozen solid snow/ice about the last 8 inches down. I don't really recall seeing it this bad since our "blizzard of '78" ..
Caught a lot of people off guard. Our town school is on a hill and a number of parents and teens going out of the drop off lot spun out. My kids go to the college (running start for one), 15 miles each way. Oh, my we had fun getting there. Coming home the dumb driver I was referring to was on my road, and stopped to talk to a couple people who were on foot.....right below a hairpin curve. I have 4WD and studded snow tires, but still, on a hill you don't want to stop if ya don't have to. Trucks like mine CAN get stuck too. Well, I see them from a distance, and hope they'll move, or if they are stuck that there is room for me to go around without losing my momentum and traction. Well, I approach slow and steady, and the A** doesn't move until I've completely stopped behind them for a few seconds. Then they start going, spinning, fishtailing and panicking. I just hung back watching this spectacle and moving about 1 mile per hour.
I'm certainly glad I made a decision to accept a job here in sunny Florida -- never expected to still be here fifty some years later! I just checked the thermometer out on the porch and it read 73 degrees..... Just around sunset last evening I set out for a shirtsleeve walk around our place with digital camera in hand, and managed to capture a photo of a flight of more than fifty white ibises flying low in a vee formation over our house. One evening recently they had been so low that I could actually hear the sound of the wind swooshing through their wings.
The ice storm is heading our way too. I live in Pennsylvania in the Lehigh Valley, that is just south of the Poconos. We tend to get snow some of the time, and rain some of the time, but when it is a big storm it rains in Philadelphia and snows in the Poconos and we get some snow, lots of freezing rain, and sometimes some of the rain as well.
The weather people are saying the ice will start tonight, probably starting as several inches of snow followed by freezing rain.
Here in Maine we are predicted to get 5-9 inches of snow tomorrow into Thursday, with possibly some freezing rain at the end. We really need the snow. The piles along the roads are getting dirty.
I'm not sure. Probably a couple of feet. We had 18 inches in the last storm a week ago. Unfortunately, we have had some rain which washed some of it away.
7 p.m. and sounds like a ice storm is headed through our area. Schools are closed again tomorrow. DH told me today he is bored (first time I have heard that). We usually go out every day but didn't today and doesn't sound like tomorrow. We both would welcome leaving the "cabin".
My DH has made this day almost unbearable. He has complained of constipation (I believe he had results...thank God). Then he constantly wanted to find a bathroom everywhere we went. Then he threw up all over my car. GROSSSS!!! It's cold and slick outside, and now he's demanding I unlock the doors and let him out. He's accusing me of lying to him saying I promised to take him home. I've given him Xanax. I also have a call in to his Neuros office. This is nuts. I've already been in tears today with him crying for a bathroom all day (when out), going through a whole roll of TP, plugging up the toilet twice, and me having to go out to the car (no garages around here) in below freezing temps with rubber gloves and cleaning solution so I could clean up the puke all over the passenger door and carpet. AAAAACK!!!
Boy, New Realm, your husband is rivalling Divi's in the Expulsion of Bodily Fluids department! I'm sorry!! All mine does is call me to come see what a nice poop he made! (not that I'd trade him for yours!)
New Realm, you sure know how to make the rest of us stop complaining! Hope tomorrow is much better for you.
Gourdchipper, you are torturing us talking about 73 degree weather and a walk in short sheeves. It's foggy and rainy here in East Tennessee and snow is expected tomorrow.
New Realm, i had some 'bodily fluids' myself to clean this am. took me an hr just to get DH undressed and into the shower today. anyone else have them put their foot on the inside of the shower and STOP?????? eeeeeekkk. wont go in or out. i had to put a candy bar on the shower seat for him to get that extra push today..:) my oh my. well its done now i am doing laundry and mopping floors . i LOVE these 2 jobs now compared to the 'newer' one. divvi i dont envy cleaning up the car new realm! ugh. been there done that too.
Mine has now decided to be blind to the walker, which he hates - he prefers the much less stable cane - and to the bathroom. He will walk right past it on his way from the kitchen table where he has been all morning to the living room, agreeing that he should stop on the way in the lavette, but then he walks right past it... and he can't back up. So he has to get to the front hall and be turned around and aimed right again, then he walks past it going the other way, back into the kitchen, unless I'm on watch and insist he STOP HERE!
Yesterday we were in the 70's and today we will be in the 40's. We have a saying that if you don't like the weather today just wait until tomorrow and it will change. It is raining and we may have some snowflakes later today but it will not stick because the ground is to warm. It's the Alabama way.