Tuesday

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We picked up Mozart's ashes today.

Then, we went for a ride.  Not a long ride; only to Augusta.  We walked around Lowe's and did our bit for morale by asking a passing Lowe-worker where the roof-rakes might be found.  Not one to be had in the store, we were told, in-between gasps of laughter.  Possibly not one to be had in greater New England.

After we had sowed our seeds of merriment, we went to Best Buy, where I finally succumbed and purchased the Shiny, the Canon PowerShot SX700HS 30X with the Bundled Goodies.  It's about half as thick as my venerable PowerShot 120IS 10X, and weighs just about the same.  The challenge here is going to be remembering not to just stick it into a pocket and forget it's there.

In theory, it does all kinds of sweet things, none of which I've figured out, yet, including sending pictures via wifi.  What an age we live in.

Stopped at the grocery on the way home, because we are once again about to go under a -- wait for it! -- Winter Storm Watch.  The theory is that we may received from 5-11 inches of snow from Wednesday afternoon until Thursday afternoon.

After that, we won't have to deal with any more snow until Saturday night into Sunday.

My plan for the rest of the week is to take the laptop, and retire with it and Alliance of Equals to the couch and do nothing else -- except shovel snow, of course  (and tomorrow's my turn to make dinner, but that'll be meatballs (already made) and rotinis, with gravy.  Easy-peasy.).  The Kid Coons aren't entirely sure that they Approve of the laptop, which takes up precious lap-space that could more fruitfully be occupied by a coon cat.  Sprite, in particular, believes that she can too fit in the space between me and the keyboard.

Just for the record?

She can't.

For those who were breathlessly awaiting my impression of Jupiter Ascending -- I had a good time with it.  Mind you, I don't get to see many movies, so that probably pre-disposes me to being amused and pleased by those I do see, but to my way of thinking, I had three winners in a row:  Guardians of the Galaxy, Big Hero6, and Jupiter Ascending.

What did you do today that was exciting?

Comments

[countrygirlxxoo.livejournal.com]

I would make my own roof rake using a board and a piece of rope. I would get a 2.5-3 foot piece of 1x8 board and a 50 foot length of clothesline rope (or similar thin rope like sisal), drill 2 holes at each end of the board like you were going to make a swing seat, cut two pieces of rope about 4 feet long and thread each piece through the holes on one end and tie them off. I would probably tie knots on each side of the rope next to the board so it won't slip around while you're dragging it before tying off the loop. Then tie the ends of the loops to the rest of the rope. This should give you a substantial enough tool that it will sink into the snow when you throw it on the roof without it being too heavy to heave. And the length of rope should let you get far enough away from the overhang that you don't pull the snow down on your head. This is a cheap fix. The rope would be about $3-5, and the board (pine 1x8x4) is about $10 (our Lowe's will cut boards to size for you--usually free or .25 cents per cut). You would probably need a 1/4 or 5/8 inch spade bit for your drill too. This is similar to your bucket on a rope, but should give you more surface area for dragging off more snow.