Country Living

[rolanni]

Got shoveled out -- I'm guessing about eight inches of fluffy stuff. It was a warm, pretty morning, really, very, very quiet, and the snow coming down just enough to be decorative. I cleaned off both cars, and came back inside for breakfast and coffee before trying to see if I could drive the little green Subaru through the ice berm left by the town plow.

Happily, the plow-guy came while I was getting breakfast; I ran out, moved the cars, he did his thing; I re-established the cars, finished breakfast, and off to work I went. First car into the parking lot; made tracks going in; got to invent a parking place as my prize. Yay, prize.

The grounds folks at the college are doing a really good job of keeping the sidewalks walkable this year; I think there's a new snowplower in the mix that's really making a difference. Go, grounds crew; you rock!

So, anyway, I'm in; my gloves and hat are on the radiator, and will -- probably -- be dry by the time I go home.

I can haz nap nao?

Comments

[kinzel.livejournal.com]

And now .. the snow is very light, with a hint of a breeze in the way it travels by my window.

[sb-moof.livejournal.com]

"it was warm ... and the snow coming down" must be a Maine thing. Those two phrases do not go together out here in coastal California. :-) Of course we will be lucky if we do not drown with all the rain we're getting this week.

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

In Maine, the golden-blue sky with never a cloud to be seen that looks so inviting and warm? Is usually cold enough to do damage in the middle of winter. People do say to each other, "I wish it would warm up and snow."

This morning it was +/- 30F/-1C, which is plenty warm for winter. The other week we had a clear, sunny day where the temp was -2F/-18C.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Is Maine thing. We get the "too cold to snow" weather, December into February -- days where the sun may be shining out of a clear blue sky, but the high temperature never makes it above zero (F). With wind.

[cailleuch.livejournal.com]

Is more than Maine thing, it does the same thing here in the midwest. If you see the sun you pay with VERY cold canadian air.

The most beautiful day I remember while living in Duluth was ground white with many feet of snow, sky an almost painfully intense blue and the lake red (clay under it had been churned up by the blizzard the day before and taken out the ice). The air temp was -25F and the wind chill -80F. -25F is too cold to snow.

[aspidites.livejournal.com]

"I can haz nap nao?"

I dunno... isn't a coon cat on one's lap a prerequisite for a nap?

[kinzel.livejournal.com]

not pre-req but certainly an aid or even an aide.

You, too, can send your cold/flu through the mail!

[(Anonymous)]

As an experiement, this has worked for me.

Cat sleep nowhere near me due to sudden twitching and screaming in my sleep. This Freaks Cats Out.

~Lizah C

Re: You, too, can send your cold/flu through the mail!

[kinzel.livejournal.com]

I used to have some reflux problems that would wake me suddenly -- and the cats mostly learned to sleep on my feet, or near them, instead of really on me. Some cats are more forgiving of others moving around at night, though, just like people.

Re: You, too, can send your cold/flu through the mail!

[baggette.livejournal.com]

but WHY would you do that?

[(Anonymous)]

Living in the southern hemisphere, I don't think I give those that live in the northern hemisphere enough credit for the effort it takes in winter just to get to work.