I woke up this a.m. and it smelled like a summer morning, minus the bloom and grass. The driveway was sweating. In a winter rarity, the dog worked up so much heat running around that she wanted to come in before I had to beg. Sunny, the temp was into theupper 60sa record 71(!) by lunch time. But within a few hours, it's supposed to drop about 30 degrees. It should be somewhere around 15 by late tonight with flurries. Back to hot tub weather.
From work, I took a stroll to the coffeeshop to get a look at this front in action, but it hadn't taken shape yet, dammit. I was hoping to get a feel for the armageddon conditions of this shift, with what's supposed to be 40+ mph winds and the change in pressure. But it's still brewing, so it's back to work without seeing the show.
At home, the dog will miss the show, too. Whenever the pressure changes or a big front is in the cards, she cowers into a corner as if she's anticipating the Big Quake. It's amazing the nooks this 70-lb. beast can burrow under our knees when properly motivated. Whenever we go outside to enjoy a big storm on the porch, she balls up behind us and pleads to be let back inside where it's "safe."
It's wild: With all her superhuman senses, and the smells and sounds and suspicious people she picks up from a hundred yards away, she often knows more about our surroundings than we do. But this is one bit of knowledge we have on her, one thing we can't alter for her. We can't override her instinct and let her know it's going to be OK.
Stupid humans, standing outside the cave in the middle of a storm.
In her religion, too, the gods "work in mysterious ways."
Last night we started out with a balmy 40 degrees above zero (I considered wearing shorts to work) and tonight it's going to hit negative 14 degrees (that's 14 degrees below ZERO)
Break out the space heater and mama's featherbed, and wear your long-johns under your jammies.
But first, have a few swigs of Jack Daniles - he warms ya right up - I love winter!
By no one you know - 1/29/2008 12:26 PM
that's 'Daniels' ... I've already started drinkin'
As you may have noticed, the site has changed. Sampa, the free-site host, did a version 2 of some sort.
Despite an FAQ that made it sound like allowing one's site to go through v.2 surgery would be okay, there were several flexibilities that surprisingly disappeared with the click of a button. (e.g. I cannot believe sidebars like this one are even narrower than before.)
And I'm told -- miraculously! -- that the conversion cannot be undone. Truth be told, I'm actually quite pissed. But free is free. Sampa has otherwise been good to me.
So I need to sort through site "features" to see how I can make do. Except that I don't have the time at the moment, in the middle of graduate classes and Lighthousehockey.com. (btw, I've removed that Lighthouse RSS feed so that you're not clogged with random Islanders hockey gibberish).
But I promise to touch up the accessories when I get a chance, and return to irregularly scheduled blogging.
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February, 2008