[Home-on-the-range] getting around in the snow

David Andrews dandrews at visi.com
Fri Feb 22 22:04:15 UTC 2013


How much did you guys get -- I read on twitter that KU closed.

Dave

At 09:45 AM 2/21/2013, you wrote:
>Right now they say the white stuff is coming down about 2 inches an 
>hour. I have never seen it come down so fast. On the news this 
>morning they said this is an event about every ten or twenty years. 
>I bet we have 6 by now and it started at my house about 6:30.
>
>Susie
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Home-on-the-range 
>[mailto:home-on-the-range-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Cindy Ray
>Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2013 9:21 AM
>To: NFB of Kansas Internet Mailing List
>Subject: Re: [Home-on-the-range] getting around in the snow
>
>Hmmm! With a dog it is pretty easy. They can find the house again. 
>Of course, they may decide if they are outside to do their duties 
>they might like to play and sniff and twirl you around. In ballet I 
>learned that when you do turns you turn your head at the last minute 
>in order to keep your orientation. That's true, isn't it, Diann? 
>Anyway, so I do try to do that if the dog is twirling me around. As 
>for sounds, my furnace has a sound that it makes on the outside, and 
>I listen for that if I have become disoriented. Also, I can tell 
>here by the lay of the land. Our back yard is on a hill. If I was 
>walking, I would attempt to keep my orientation, but the dog will 
>move pretty freely through the snow.
>
>Cindy Lou
>p.s. How much snow do you have so far?
>
>On Feb 21, 2013, at 9:16 AM, Dianne Hemphill wrote:
>
> > Hi federationists- most of us find ourselves in a blanket of snow
> > today (and likely for a few more days to come!). I've been listening
> > to tips on getting around in the white, cold stuff on the Matilda
> > Ziegler  and wonder if you have your own techniques for getting about
> > safely? I'm particularly interested in hearing how guide dog users
> > accomplish the  multiple outings they must do for the dog's needs. One
> > of the teaching/training techniques used during travel classes in
> > Iowa, was to use a radio, for example, at the house entrance to mark
> > that return point when one went to the mailbox or corner, for example
> > and the snow had not yet been shoveled ...I recall more than one
> > experience of slipping and sliding down a steep driveway when I
> > wrongly thought I could "carefully" walk somewhere. I have since
> > purchased rubber grips that slip over the bottom of my shoes and
> > sometimes use my cane as a ski pole...what tips do you have out there?
> > Dianne _______________________________________________





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