VWL Groupies & Lovers Thread (Special Collectors Edition 2.5) updated 2 February 2025

[Disney loving Iowan]

We did have a great weekend! Our grands came over yesterday and. we spent time time playing with them, had a meal with them, our DD and DSIL and my parents. Weather looks great for this week here, and looks like a good work week ahead, so life is good
DLI, I hope you had a good weekend! And the same for you for the upcoming week!

Glad to hear that! Thank you.

 

[DVC Jen]

Our town got hit last night with the storms that crossed Alabama and a tornado touched down 1 mile from us. Our DD and family heard the train sound and got into closet. It was spread over a roughly 3 mile path. Someone sent me a picture a bit later of the funnel and it was very close to my daughters house. Lots of trees down, roofs blown off, cars and buses overturned, but so far, thank the Maker, no one hurt! Life can sure change quickly

So glad your daughter and family are all OK. We had a nasty tornado EF4 come through our town the day after Christmas 2015. They are so scary.

 

[DVC Jen]

We have our Allie! We love her so much already. Our boys are being very tolerant so far. Remy is not pleased with her and will bark at her, but he hasn't snapped. Gus just kind of ignores her and tolerates when she is around. It will just take time. They will come around. We went through the same thing when we got Gus. Ella loved him - but it took Remy a while to warm up. Now they are best buds.

Warning.... cuteness overload ahead.

 

[Disney loving Iowan]

We have our Allie! We love her so much already. Our boys are being very tolerant so far. Remy is not pleased with her and will bark at her, but he hasn't snapped. Gus just kind of ignores her and tolerates when she is around. It will just take time. They will come around. We went through the same thing when we got Gus. Ella loved him - but it took Remy a while to warm up. Now they are best buds.

Warning.... cuteness overload ahead.

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Oh she looks so cuddly I just wanna hug her!!!

 

[jimmytammy]

Jen
That is one cute pup!!

 

[jimmytammy]

This is a snippet from the DVC 30th anniversary celebration that aired a couple mos. back. I have tried to get a link to the show, but alas, it shall happen later. In the meantime, here is "Its A Small World" being sung by Keala Settle, who was in "The Greatest Showman"

She sings it slowly and gives it a whole new meaning for me personally and will make me forever look at the attraction in a whole new perspective.

 

[Granny]

She sings it slowly and gives it a whole new meaning for me personally and will make me forever look at the attraction in a whole new perspective.

Jimmy...thanks for the link. I really enjoyed Keala's interview, and that rendition of "It's a Small World" was truly beautiful. Though I have to admit, the song is ONCE AGAIN stuck in my head!

 

[Disney loving Iowan]

She sings it slowly and gives it a whole new meaning for me personally and will make me forever look at the attraction in a whole new perspective.

Oh boy now I'm sitting here crying. This is one of my favorite rides because of it's message. I think a lot of people sadly miss it. We could sure use a lot of it right now. Thanks for sharing this.

 

[jimmytammy]

Here is too the hopes for a wonderful weekend for all my groupie brothers and sisters!!

 

[KAT4DISNEY]

Here is too the hopes for a wonderful weekend for all my groupie brothers and sisters!!

Here's to hoping for some nice warm weekend weather as our furnace blew up early in the week! Literally blew up and spit soot all over the utility room at 2am. A beast of an oil burner that could heat the house in about 2 seconds but decided it had given it's all and went out with a bang. I heard that bang thank goodness and got the blower shut off right away. I finally have quotes for clean up and quotes for replacement but I'm expecting at best one more week without central heat and more likely it'll be closer to two. Glad it's March and not January!

I must say that my old corgi seems to be enjoying laying in front of a space heater. He conks out and doesn't move for the rest of the afternoon!

 

[twinklebug]

Here's to hoping for some nice warm weekend weather as our furnace blew up early in the week! Literally blew up and spit soot all over the utility room at 2am. A beast of an oil burner that could heat the house in about 2 seconds but decided it had given it's all and went out with a bang. I heard that bang thank goodness and got the blower shut off right away. I finally have quotes for clean up and quotes for replacement but I'm expecting at best one more week without central heat and more likely it'll be closer to two. Glad it's March and not January!

I must say that my old corgi seems to be enjoying laying in front of a space heater. He conks out and doesn't move for the rest of the afternoon!

Oh Boy. Why is it always the middle of the night when things go wrong?

 

[Granny]

Here's to hoping for some nice warm weekend weather as our furnace blew up early in the week! Literally blew up and spit soot all over the utility room at 2am. A beast of an oil burner that could heat the house in about 2 seconds but decided it had given it's all and went out with a bang. I heard that bang thank goodness and got the blower shut off right away. I finally have quotes for clean up and quotes for replacement but I'm expecting at best one more week without central heat and more likely it'll be closer to two. Glad it's March and not January!

I'm glad that no one was harmed. And I agree that it's better to have it happen at the end of March and not in February, but really there isn't a great time for something like that, is there? I hope you have very mild weather until you get back up and running, but I know that in your part of the country the nights can still be pretty cold. Good luck!

 

[KAT4DISNEY]

Oh Boy. Why is always the middle of the night when things go wrong?

That so true that it does and so weird. I got really lucky as we do normally have the utility room door closed but just before going to bed I noticed it was open. Almost decided not to walk the extra 10 feet over to close it but then did an about face. If not then I think the entire downstairs would have had a fine coating of soot. Overall this is a pain but I also got lucky too.

I'm glad that no one was harmed. And I agree that it's better to have it happen at the end of March and not in February, but really there isn't a great time for something like that, is there? I hope you have very mild weather until you get back up and running, but I know that in your part of the country the nights can still be pretty cold. Good luck!

Nothing like hearing a big bangy whoosh in your house in the middle of the night! It sounded very similar to when we have big slides of snow off he roof onto the deck and it shook the house a tiny bit. We have been down into the 20's but several years ago replaced windows and siding and got insulated much better than we were and the space heaters do pretty well thank goodness.

 

[Disney loving Iowan]

Here's to hoping for some nice warm weekend weather as our furnace blew up early in the week! Literally blew up and spit soot all over the utility room at 2am. A beast of an oil burner that could heat the house in about 2 seconds but decided it had given it's all and went out with a bang. I heard that bang thank goodness and got the blower shut off right away. I finally have quotes for clean up and quotes for replacement but I'm expecting at best one more week without central heat and more likely it'll be closer to two. Glad it's March and not January!

I must say that my old corgi seems to be enjoying laying in front of a space heater. He conks out and doesn't move for the rest of the afternoon!

Oh wow. That's crazy. So glad it didn't happen a couple months ago. I hope it gets fixed quickly.

 

[KAT4DISNEY]

Oh wow. That's crazy. So glad it didn't happen a couple months ago. I hope it gets fixed quickly.

Thanks Allison!

 

[jimmytammy]

Here's to hoping for some nice warm weekend weather as our furnace blew up early in the week! Literally blew up and spit soot all over the utility room at 2am. A beast of an oil burner that could heat the house in about 2 seconds but decided it had given it's all and went out with a bang. I heard that bang thank goodness and got the blower shut off right away. I finally have quotes for clean up and quotes for replacement but I'm expecting at best one more week without central heat and more likely it'll be closer to two. Glad it's March and not January!

I must say that my old corgi seems to be enjoying laying in front of a space heater. He conks out and doesn't move for the rest of the afternoon!

I can sympathize with you on the oil heater deal. We had one in our home and I spent many a night, middle of the night, crawling around under our house to re-set it. When it finally gave up, I was a happy camper, as we switched to gas central heat, no more crawling under the house!

 

[KAT4DISNEY]

I can sympathize with you on the oil heater deal. We had one in our home and I spent many a night, middle of the night, crawling around under our house re-set it. When it finally gave up, I was a happy camper, as we switched to gas central heat, no more crawling under the house!

Our oil beast had me up a few chilly nights over the years too although thankfully it was in a room I could walk into! It had been doing something new and we had or repair guy out twice during the past month so it was trying to tell me. I just was hoping to finish out this winter so I didn't want to listen. We have natural gas at the corner of our property but it's so rocky here the cost to bring it in is crazy high! Considering propane, replacing the oil or leaning a bit towards a heat pump but still investigating that to learn more.

 

[Lakegirl]

Our oil beast had me up a few chilly nights over the years too although thankfully it was in a room I could walk into! It had been doing something new and we had or repair guy out twice during the past month so it was trying to tell me. I just was hoping to finish out this winter so I didn't want to listen. We have natural gas at the corner of our property but it's so rocky here the cost to bring it in is crazy high! Considering propane, replacing the oil or leaning a bit towards a heat pump but still investigating that to learn more.

We have propane and oil and historically Propane has been much more costly for us here in Mass.

 

[KAT4DISNEY]

We have propane and oil and historically Propane has been much more costly for us here in Mass.

Interesting and thanks! I've always been told that propane is so much cheaper so I hadn't even checked out the pricing.

 

[bobbiwoz]

I’m sorry that you have to go through this, Kat4 Disney.