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Winter Safety Tips

Winter weather can be very serious. Several parts of the United States regularly experience freezing temperatures and large amounts of snow every winter. This kind of weather may look pretty in photos, but it can be dangerous to have to live in and deal with. Here are some winter safety tips that can help keep you, and your family, safe this winter. Snow Removal Safety The National Safety Council (NSC) has some safety tips regarding snow removal. They advise that people who are over the age of 40, and who are relatively inactive, should be especially careful when shoveling snow. … Continue reading →

Taking Care of Your Car

Where would we be without our cars? When I was first separated from my ex husband I didn’t have a car. Hailey and I walked to the grocery store and loaded up a little rolling cart with groceries and headed back. That worked great until the wheel came off halfway home on one trip. Now only did we have to carry all the groceries but the cart too! I was very grateful when I finally got a car, it was used, the air conditioning didn’t work, you had to take the fuse out to make the windshield wipers stop working … Continue reading →

Tips for Winterizing Your Vehicle–Part 2

Have you winterized your vehicle yet? If you read the first part of this blog you know that I’m only part way through the winterizing process. Old Man Winter snuck up on me and already dropped more than a foot of snow on our state and the temps have barely crept out of the teens over the last couple of weeks. Okay. Who am I kidding? I procrastinated and now I am trying desperately to get my winterizing checklist complete before we head out on our holiday road trip. If you are driving over the river and through the woods … Continue reading →

Tips for Winterizing Your Vehicle–Part 1

It’s almost mid-December. More than a foot of snow has fallen in the past week in my neck of the woods and the temperature hasn’t risen above freezing since Thanksgiving. (I have a feeling it’s going to be a looooong winter.) To make matters worse I am not done winterizing my car. I’m not ready for Old Man Winter, and sadly my car isn’t either. So, dear readers, learn from my mistakes. Stop procrastinating. Tackle the tasks you can do yourself and book an appointment at a service station and let professional mechanics finish the other jobs. And you’d better … Continue reading →