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I feel sorry for the dog 3 houses down.... tied up, no blanket, nothing but a hole he dug in the dirt. Homeless have shelters with food they can go to.

If I wasn't scared they'd toss me out, I'd take that dog a nice fluffy quilt ... if it's too cold outside for YOU, it is too cold for a pet. Period.
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It is 18 degrees here and today's high was 28. It is going down to 14 tonight. I feel sorry for the homeless.
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Well, it's not that cold here, only 32, BUT.... I've lost water pressure and yes, we are on a well. Please don't freeze up. I have the hot water running on all faucets...fogged in, can't see 3 feet out the window. Snowed in Florida today. WTf?
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Captain, I wouldn't be surprised with all the computer stuff inside today's newer furnaces that something in there could case a hiccup.

I help property manage a small office building.... now that I think about it we had two cases of a clogged filter stopping two of our electric heat pumps [not my favorite mode of heating]... first time called out service, they reported back to me about the filter... winter rolled around again and my own office I couldn't get the heat pump thermostat to listen to my request of wanting heat, then it dawned on me to check the filter... oh my gosh, what a mess... I bought new filters and voilà I got the heat pump to come back to life :)

I need to put a note on my own furnace "check the filter"... I keep forgetting about it from one winter season to the next.... [sigh].
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freq, i admire your internet sleuthing but im not completely convinced . gas furnaces have fail systems backing up other fail systems , supporting other fail systems . several little electric thermal sensors that can fail intermittantly . a bad report from any of them kills the gas supply .
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this was a first . bought a 3.99 coffee maker at goodwill yesterday and was offered a senior discount . i AM 56 so screw it , i accepted and it knocked a buck off the price .
its a pretty b*tchin coffee maker . hamilton beech and it doesnt have a glass carrafe ( sp ) . the dam thing dispenses a cup with the push of a lever . i think it will tolerate my bizaar habit of rerunning yesterdays coffee . im gonna toss a big pinch of tobacco in it some morning . everybody knows caffein and nicotene create the perfect legal speedball . probly be able to drive to work without a vehicle .
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Turns out that a clogged furnace filter can cause havoc... I found this on the Internet "Dirty filters are the most common cause of furnace problems. Dust and dirt restrict airflow—and if the filter gets too clogged, the heat exchanger will overheat and shut off. If the blower is running but no heat is coming out change the filter." Sure enough, I heard something running in the furnace and that must have been the blower. The furnace is only a few years old, plus I have always had a service contract so I could have called the service and someone would be out quickly, but I didn't want to wake up anyone if I could jump start the furnace myself :)

Why does stuff like this happen late at night? Like a smoke alarm chirping. Or a garage door won't close :P
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Too cold to be without heat ff !!

Cap, the troll adds I was referring to are the ones that are started on this website specifically as advertisement on their so called miracle products. Not pop ups.
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freq,
i dont imagine a dirty filter shutting a furnace down . its possible but doesnt sound right to me . probably gonna cost you a service call at some point . id google the problem up and check the online troubleshooting guides . several companies like to sell furnace parts and have quite nice troubleshooting guides , sometimes with videos . every little relay or switch that you can replace yourself only gets you closer to the problem and leaves nice new parts in your wake . you dont want to screw with gas fittings but little sensors and relays are safe to replace yourself .
my family had hens when we were younger but after working for an organic hen farmer a couple years ago i wondered how i ever put up with the racket of all those clucking friggin animals laying eggs . it is so quiet up here id rather just eat flat cornbread . well the renter upstairs is hackin her guts out . she must have bought some weed this month . lol
its colder'n a b*tch here for the last 3 days . i aint stickin my nose out the door till the warm up on sunday .
i dont know what troll ads you guys are referring to . i use a free chrome adblocker and with a few clicks you can even knock specific ads or video ads in the head .
i hope france catches those two jihadi thugs alive . prison would be much more fitting than the cop out of a quick death , sef inflicted or otherwise .
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Ff, we had the furnace go out last year. It also had a blinking red light to signal there is a problem. It was a 20 year old furnace tyhe tech said something had happened to make the safety switch get thrown. We opted for a new furnace, why pay to repair something that old. We spent one night without heat. I went to load up on space heaters at the hardware store, only used one of them in Mom's room, returned the rest. But now that heater is on all day each day to keep the living room, where they spend most of their time, alot warmer.

Hope that your furnace does not fault again tonight! When ours did, the tech would have had to replace the fault switch to be able to try to find out what caused the problem in the first place.

Maybe you should run off to Home Depot to get one of those oil filled radiator looking heaters, just in case.
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Ugh... at midnight last night I was dealing with trying to get my furnace to come back on... the thermostat is a basic one so no mind boggling issues with setting. Once in a while the thermostat would stall out... need to turn it off and wait 10 minutes and turn it back on to re-set... tried that on and off for an hour as I was watching the temperature on the thermostat start to drop... oh sweet, the outside temps are only going down to 9 degrees :P

Then I went into the basement and opened up furnace as I remember the tech telling me if such an such happens you can do this or that. Well I stared at the computer board and all the wires, saw a red light blinking, and my mind couldn't remember what to do.

In the mean time I was upset with sig other as he was just standing around with his hands in his pockets expecting me to take care of everything house or yard related. His guy has his master's degree, why can't he learn some of these things, too, why is it always my job? I am under enough stress... geeze.

Then I checked the furnace filter... oops, it was pretty clogged... so I put in a new one... messed with the thermostat a couple times more, and eventually I heard those wonderful *clicking sounds* from the gas furnace... WE GOT HEAT :)
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Wouldn't it be nice if people's problems could be solved as easy as solving problems with these trolls via contacting the moderators. Dream on!
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or vodka in lemonade like my uncle made once?
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Oh, what the heck. Have the wine with breafast! We deserve it every now and then.
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@Veronica - or Champaign in your orange juice.
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I've had some wine with my welbutrin and lamictal before which was an accident, but I'd hate to see the impact of a shot of brandy! ha, ha, that would put me out of my misery for a while! :)
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I hate the ad where it shows the Type II diabetic people waving their arms out the convertible, rocking back and forth, eating in the kitchen, dancing on the beach, etc., etc.

Come to think about it, I'm sick of all the ads that have disclaimers longer than the ad in that happy, peppy voice.
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A shot of brandy in your morning coffee!
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I'd like to whine just for a moment about men who are more emotionally married to their moms than to their wives and wives who are more emotionally married to their dads or even sometimes to their moms than they are to their husbands. These are very unhappy and frustrated people with sad marriages. I'm not surprised, although sad, when they divorce in the face of caregiving which brings these issues of dysfunction to the surface. Some people just need to stop being their parent(s) emotional child and be here spouse's emotionally adult mate. Dang! That is my whine for today! Maybe I need a drink of wine?
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whoops, forgot to add it only turns your pee yellow, I guess to match the lady in the adds shirt?
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Yeah, I've seen that manic dancing banana!!

Speaking of adds... there is a commercial on tv which shows a lady with a bright yellow shirt on just bouncing and singing away in her car and basically all pepped up and happy all day.... it's for a new Vitamin called "Alive". Doesn't work. Just sayin....
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To report these "trolls" go to https://www.agingcare.com/contactus.aspx and send them a message. I have bookmarked this page so that I don't have to keep searching the site map for it.
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I've been busy tonight reporting these various "troll" adds.
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Veronica has just called me fat, grey haired and with boobs down to my ankles so I'm interested in any help I can get (It's okay, Veronica, I'm only joking!). What's that ad. that says you must never eat these five mystery foods and then has a dancing banana on the front page, though? I'm not falling for it, but I'm peeved now - what's wrong with bananas???
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I'm going to seriously whine about all the "Troll" adds that seem to be popping up.

Beauty cream to make your skin look new. Reduce your fat with natural herbs.

What the h*ll? Is it a known fact most of us caregivers age drastically and get fat!! haha.... grrr!
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Captain haven't you got space and a stout fox-proof shelter of some kind for a few retired battery hens? You can pick them up for next to nothing from any reasonable-minded farmer (they send their whole stock for slaughter once they've completed laying for a season or two, even though the chickens are still laying like billy-o, so it's no skin off their nose if somebody wants to rescue a few of them) and they're no trouble. Karma, company and fresh eggs all in one go - I can't recommend them highly enough.
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Cap enjoy reading your ranting's! You live in my brothers neck of the woods would not be surprised that you to know each other! anyway I don't have a Whine tonight but something good . MY daughter called and we talked for over a hour it was great! buy self rising corn meal a hail of a lot better then that jiffy mix! put vinegar in milk egg if you have it some good corn bread!! butter milk great but vinegar in milk same thing!!
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i picked up more ingredients for whole wheat brotchen this evening but im afraid that bread event is reserved for a pint of blackberry preserves that an older woman gave me last week . ill make some jiffy cornbread for the beans but it wont be very newsworthy as im too cheap to buy eggs .
ill get some salt for the beans . the plow truck is hurling that s*it over the road every 30 minutes .
down but not out in central indiana . lol
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ive had hepc and the impending threat of death by liver cancer since 1978 . were all going to die . in the 35 yrs ive had the virus ive learned that life has no guarantees -- its all about today . today was nice . very cold wind chill temps . if death appears imminent before my pot of beans is done ill eat the dam things half cooked .
my aunt isnt far from death . i love her more than anyone ive ever known . her death wont be a sad ending . it'll be a tribute to a life of 90 yrs . quite a wonderful accomplishment when you consider the tens of millions who have died in wars before even reaching puberty .
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@Captain - ha ha....I'm no clean freak either. If it doesn't move, I don't pick it up. But then again, my mother hasn't started with that yet. I'm currently enjoying time off, i.e, she's in rehab.

Also, been there, done that with the frozen temps. If a wild boar is a pig, then beans and ham sound pretty good. Do you have brown bread to go with that?
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