Hey Mike,

Keep Heather and me posted on your Indy trip! May is fun here because of the Indy 500. So, you can't get bored, especially if you are a car fan. I can also direct you to good vs bad areas for hotels. My hubbie is a HUGE race fan, so if you have any interest in that, he can talk your ear off! LOL

Glad that you didn't get hit too hard by the storm. You shouldn't be out there working on that driveway, though, you know....I fear that we are stuck in the house because we can't even chop out way out of the driveway because of all the ice. I just measure the ice on my patio: 2 1/4" pure ice. Pretty crazy. I don't see how the kids are getting to school at all this week, because it's not supposed to get above freezing until Sunday...and then we apparently have another storm hitting that day or the next. My 3 beautiful super tall birch trees in my backyard have lost a lot of branches, and the middle tree is now 1/3 shorter than the other 2 (it wasn't that way 2 days ago). Just great.  Eventually this is going to get really annoying!

With the sun out our temperature is currently 33 degrees, this is insane  cold! I don't know how you people do it! I need a real jacket, I don't think I've ever seen it this cold here when the sun was out! My poor plants :0 !!!! Trying to water them, going to be colder tonight but the pipes are frozen! Wish we at least had some moisture, we'd be having some snow to enjoy too. Even when we are "cold" 50-60 degree days the sun really makes things feel almost hot...... mmmmm yeah not today.... that wind is like a slap in the face with a frozen noodle! Ok thought I'd make all of you toughing it out right now in the serious stuff laugh, however I will be back along with DebMC when our 110 degrees are posting to your lovely 70 and 80!! Keep safe peeps and stay inside and use up the food supply you have in the house till its safe to travel out on those roads!

Hey Sandi,

You are having a regular heat wave! LOL. I wouldn't even need a coat if we had those temps.  Ok, remind me: are you in southern US or are you one of Aussies who are boiling up (or getting blown away by a typhoon)?

As for the food, I am in a constant battle NOT to eat any of the goodies around my house since I am majorly dieting! So far, so good, but it's a struggle. At least if I were running around with the kids, I wouldn't be around food! Eek!

Hey Sandi & Mike

So you guys are NHRA fans too!!  That was my childhood growing up at the tracks.   My Dad has always been involved in racing somehow, either driving or being a crew chief.  I haven’t been to the track in about 3 years so not since my whole mast cell stuff started happening.  I will be back at the track this summer (my brother has a front engine dragster) and I was already nervous about the heat like Mike said but now I guess I should to be nervous about the fumes too.  Gotta love this crazy diseases!    Oh and Sandi that’s so funny about the nitro, I am always one of the sissies running away crying and gagging as soon as that yellow cloud gets close, my husband can tough it out like you.

Take Care,
Tracey

Hey Mike,
I will take my chances and probably go to a race this year, hopefully I will be fine.   I am solely a shocker so I have the hardest time figuring out triggers because I feel great in-between my shocks.   I have a rain barrel effect, I guess instead of triggering like most I just add to my barrel then when I fill it up  …..  Look Out!!               
 I will just have to pay extra attention to everything around me and how I’m feeling also I need to crack down more on my low histamine diet.
By the way my brother-in-law has a dirt track car, its just a 4 cylinder but he absolutely loves getting out there every weekend and racing.

Take Care,
Tracey

Tracey, I can't go anymore because of the triggering, I'm super duper chemical sensitive now. You will have to post your photos after you go in this section!!! I hope Corey Mac gets a ride this year! The pits are so fun getting your photos with the drivers, and picking up pistons, spark plugs etc. I love that about NHRA. OUr laundry room is littered with photos of us and the racers! I've got a great pic w/ John Force, of course he's still talking while the photo was taken but it was to us! Hilarious! Deb I'm in Arizona! Oh this will crack you NhRA fans up, so we really don't have serious winter clothing here in Arizona, whats the point..... well our high was 32 and I'm grasping for warmer clothing to go out, I reach back into the closet for my warmest old jacket,,,,, John Force Racing six time world champ..... What is he on now like 15 or 16 I'm old!

Haaa Jill. Too funny!  Well, you could always south to Indiana. Oh wait, we are living in the Ice Age here. at 9 am tomorrow, it will be -6 below 0. That is going to be fun. Do you have all the ice, too? My driveway and yard are still an ice skating rink! Even better, every now and then, the sun comes out and somehow manages to melt something even though the temps don't rise. As a result, I now have a beautiful leak in my roof in my great room. The roofers came out today and my roof needs to be repaired from an ice dam, the attic is not filled with nearly the right amount of insulation, and we need to fix the interior leak damage. Cha ching -- just ring up several thousand dollars of repairs that need to be done instantly. Hmm... do you think I could just trade in several months of my meds? At about $800 a pop, I would only need 3 or 4 months worth. LOL.

Well, if you go TOO far South you're going to get what I have right now.  We broke the records today and the temps are about 110o!   How's that for fun?!   I've taken to the wonderful fashion of wearing a wet t-shirt - and no it's not clingy!  I have a fan that I constantly drag behind me and my kids know that Killer look in my eyes if they even dare touch it!  We can fry eggs on the side walk and I could probably just put my pressure cooker with any meat in it out in the sun and cook that hunk of beef in record time too!   When I wash clothes, naturally, who needs a clothes dryer, when you live in one!  My clothes are dried STIFF in less than a hour!  And worst of it all, THERE'S NO THUNDERSTORMS IN SIGHT!  WAAAAAA!  

CAN WE ALL TRADE SPOTS FOR A WHILE???!!    I JUST KNEW IT - there you guys were complaining of such a hot summer last year and I though, Uh Oh, I'm in for it!  So very often you guys will have a hot summer and we get fried alive and then when your winter is mild, ours is too.  I've just never seen it where you all get snowed in and we end up with a cold winter too!!  It seems like our winter is never cold - but then, I do live in the tropics, what can I expect otherwise?  A blizzard?   Well, it is a tempting thought!!!


Keep Warm you all and keep SAFE!!

I'm trying to do this   as best as I can!