Good morning everybody,<br /><br />hope all is well,<br /><br />I am looking at 32 degrees and freezing rain and sleet.  we had school but with our school district they could very well cancel early and everyone will be out scrambling in this mess when it REALLY gets nasty&#33;  Most of the schools around here was sensible and closed this morning.<br />am hoping though it does warm up bec. if it gets any colder with freezing rain on the power lines, then thats means trouble.<br /><br />Falina - Rose is feeling better and did go to school, at first she said she didn&#39;t want to and yesterday I had my doubts about today but I told her the forecast for tonight was for snow so she didn&#39;t need to miss today and tomorrow...she would get too far behind.   <img src="http://www.cruisecrazies.com/community/images/forum/tr-emoticons/wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":wink2:" border="0" alt="wink.gif" /> <br />Glad to hear to are able to work out things with your business.  Do whatever is best for you and Dennis. <br />thanks...my Mother is the same and stubborn.  One good thing, when hubby took their trash can back to their house yesterday and went to check on them all three of them talked and Daddy told Mamma when he thought she needed to go to the doctor again he will tell Jerry and she WOULD go...so it is a wait and see kind of thing again.  but my Mother has also respected Jerry&#39;s opinion more than mine so hopefully she will listen to him.<br /><br />Debbie - hope you can work out things for a cruise this spring.  sounds great<br /><br />Shaunna - again, I am hoping things get easier for you.  hang in there  <img src="http://www.cruisecrazies.com/community/images/forum/tr-emoticons/wub.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":wub:" border="0" alt="wub.gif" /> <br />You computer, DSL, TIVO connection affiliations are WAY over my head.  LOL<br /><br />Joey - Good morning, how are things your way?<br /><br />Steve and Kevin - great stories&#33;<br /><br />Steve - I remember how much you enjoyed the story about me wrestling with the dead tree limbs under the dead tree out in the Tropical Storm last year...basically how foolishly it was&#33;<br /><br />where here is a story only I could find myself in...<b>I got locked IN my house</b><br /><br />this is how it happened...when we built our house Jerry bought all our interior doors and somehow another miscalculated and a couple of the doors were going to open on the wrong side of the wall from what we wanted.  I know I am going to tell all the carpentry stuff wrong but bear with me...by the time he had gotten up most of the doors he discovered he needed to stop and figure this out.  why not just take them back...don&#39;t know.  <img src="http://www.cruisecrazies.com/community/images/forum/tr-emoticons/wacko.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":wacko:" border="0" alt="wacko.gif" /> <br />So what he did was take the door that was supposed to go to the laundry room and put that door on the bedroom...OK that was fine.  The bedroom door now opened the way we wanted but the laundry room door was going to open out into the hallway.  Well, no big deal, but it did make the lock to the door IN THE HALLWAY.  Which was kinda of a good thing, you could lock the back door that came into the laundry room and then the laundry room door that came into the hallway.<br /><br />Well one January morning when Rose was about 3 and there was snow on the ground and it was around 25 degrees (I swear) I go into the laundry room to start a load of towels.  Rose comes in after me and shuts the door.  She has also locked it.  From the outside&#33;  Did I mention I was in my nightgown?  With no shoes on, not even house shoes?<br />Jerry has gone to work, Rachael is spending the night at a friends.  That morning even my parents were not at home, Daddy was in the hospital and my Mother was there with him.  I was on my own.<br />I have no phone to call for help.  and before anyone asks...<b>Why didn&#39;t you just go out the back door?...</b>well the alarm was set for no delay response.  I open the back door and I have about 5 seconds to turn it off.  Plus the front door is locked, couldn&#39;t get in anyway&#33;  <img src="http://www.cruisecrazies.com/community/images/forum/tr-emoticons/wacko.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":wacko:" border="0" alt="wacko.gif" /> <br />To recap, I am in my nightgown, no shoes, same for Rose...there IS snow on the ground. and it is cold. if I was to go out the backdoor the alarm goes off and I end up meeting the police on my front porch in my nightgown freezing... I was stuck&#33;<br /><br />All the interior doors in our house are 36 inch strong doors, nothing flimsy.  So I think I will just jimmy the lock, I use coat hangers, go through the junk drawer in the cabinets and find screwdrivers, old expired insurance cards, membership cards, I even try paper clips and I can&#39;t get that door opened&#33;<br />So finally I decide I will just have to break it down.  OK, I figure how hard can it be...people do this on TV all the time.  I hit it a couple times, yeah right...a couple more times, I run into it hard with my shoulder, finally it creaks a little.  Finally I hit it HARD with my body and shoulder and bust the door jam, the door facing, parts of the door jam and facing just splinter, ... <br /><br />We get out.  The door facing is a MESS, huge hunks out of it.  My shoulder is killing me...but the lock never broke nor did the door&#33;<br /><br />anybody ever have that experience?  <img src="http://www.cruisecrazies.com/community/images/forum/tr-emoticons/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":laugh:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" /> <br /><br />Robert - great having you back&#33;  Say hi to Annie for me.  and yes, the weather is on its way...<br /><br />HI to everybody and have a great day.<br /><br />and Debbie...yes, everyone is chatty... <img src="http://www.cruisecrazies.com/community/images/forum/tr-emoticons/tongue.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":tongue:" border="0" alt="tongue.gif" />