um, these are cans that has the food in them to begin with and they are heated quite a bit during the manufacturing and canning processes so us warming them up isn't going to kill us, and besides i can tell you that Mom don't give a rip about any possible contaminants coming from cans or...
yes, if you see a post from me we have power as the radio network i use doesn't have battery backup.
we do have a propane fueled fireplace so we're ok if we lose the power to run the furnace - we call it camping. :)
no, i don't think they are catbirds, but not sure yet what they might be. i've been looking through the following link to see if any look close to what i was seeing but not sure yet as i've been hauled away to other things... the good news is that there will be carrot cake tonight... :) ...
i hid behind a cup of warmed up milk and a few warmed up chocolate chip shortbread cookies. that was dessert after having a cold ham sandwhich, with cold bread and cold macaroni and tomato chunks. a balance of the forces was restored...
i sure hope so!
as for flooding and sewage spills, it's pretty common in older cities that they first put in combined sewer systems for the stormwater drains and the sewage itself. now when they get funding and the chance a lot of cities are reworking their systems to break them apart which...
is that good or bad? :) a bit of humor but you never know how some people get along. i myself do ok with Mom being here but i am such a homebody that i also like being alone at times so it is also nice if she goes and visits friends once in a while or ...
this morning there was a birdie outside that i was not familiar with, perhaps it was a juvenile catbird, but i really am not sure at all. the catbirds might be long gone for the winter by now anyways. i'll need to do some searching...
well, this is going to take three rounds of digging out today. very wet and heavy. one round done. 20 more minute break for lunch and then i can get back at it.
i think the worst of it is done as it is the wide part of the driveway plus an area off to the side where Mom backs in to turn...