“Spring, summer, and fall fill us with hope; winter alone reminds us of the human condition.”
From the window, the morning looks lovely with a bright sun and a totally blue sky. I blithely went to get the papers only to be hit with air as cold as it has been all winter. I gasped. I’m not leaving the house today. My errand list can wait. I have all I need including Mint Oreos, cold cuts and cheese. My larder runneth over.
I have found the perfect movie for today, a really bad movie, but still perfect, 100 Below Zero. CGI snow covers Paris as an ash cloud heads to the city causing a new ice age in its wake. The top of the Eiffel Tower just fell. I’d best stop for a bit to get back to the movie before I miss any of the exciting action. Will our heroes survive?
When I was a kid, they never called off school because of cold, only snow. On the coldest days my mother dressed us much like Randy in A Christmas Story except we wore layers, not a snow suit. I had to wear a skirt to school so my mother made me wear snow pants under the skirt. Under the snow pants I wore long underwear, pink long underwear, which came to my knees, just above the skirt hem. I wore knee socks, a sweater, my winter coat, mittens, a hat and a scarf. Walking to school, we all looked the same so none of us were distinguishable.
Yesterday I went through all the Christmas presents I bought on sale for next Christmas and put them in individually labeled decorative bags, also bought on sale. I made a list of all the names and put checks under each name for the small gifts, and I listed the bigger ones. The sorting took a while, but I’m glad its done. I swear to keep the list updated, but I know I won’t.
It is almost laundry day. A pile sits in the laundry basket in my bedroom, but before it is moved, I have to change my bed then add the old sheets to the basket then haul it downstairs next to the cellar door where it will sit until I get tired of looking at it. That takes a long time.
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January 31, 2019 at 3:03 pm
it is fair comment that it is a shade chilly in Michigan which presents problems over and beyond the norm. All basic services have been suspended on 3 of the 4 days this week. we have enjoyed wind chills below -30 and air temps in the -10F range. For fun we will be in the 50s on Sunday, a modest 80 degree swing
This afternoon I am taking those avid Brady supporters, my daughter and her husband to the airport as they head for the Super Bowl. I still consider the Pats odious but far far worse the Rams are owned by Stan Kroenke who also owns arsenal football club, our greatest rivals and a sh*t club I hate above all else.
Some of my chums who are friends with Mr Suh are also heading to the game.
And so I have a super bowl that is truly awful. I guess I would like the University of Michigan quarterback to add another ring, so I can hear goat stuff and spit on Kroenke.
Perhaps the cold air is making me take this all to seriously.
January 31, 2019 at 5:34 pm
My Dear Hedley,
I saw the weather and the predicted heat wave. The difference is almost impossible to imagine. Last night Chicago was colder than the South Pole and Alaska. I can’t imagine an actual temperature of -20 below.
Wow, I am jealous of your daughter and her husband, both people of good taste I suppose I should be glad of anything which shifts your view of my beloved Patriots.
I do love the name Suh.
I disagree with you. It is not truly awful, not any super bowl with my Patriots.
Go Pats!!
January 31, 2019 at 5:19 pm
Hi Kat,
The Polar Vortex came in with a vengeance last night. I looked out the back window and couldn’t see anything but white. I went to the front porch and could see the snow coming down sideways at a very high rate of speed. It was a little scary. For all that, there was less than an inch of snow on the ground. It was easy to sweep away with a broom. My kind of snow.
It was painfully cold this morning when I went out with the dogs. All of us had our winter coats on. The dogs weren’t happy about theirs but I was really happy to have that LL Bean arctic level down coat and the dead coyote ushanka hat. Most of me was warm. Face, feet and fingers were frozen.
My laundry is at the bottom of the cellar stairs and there’s another full bag by the bathroom door. I’ll get around to it. I’m not out of underwear yet. π
Enjoy the evening.
January 31, 2019 at 5:39 pm
Hi Caryn,
We got about five minutes of snow then it stopped. It was cold but not quite as cold as you suffered through. I’d have thought the same thing about snow blowing sideways. I’m with you on sweepable snow!
Henry came inside this morning with a frozen dead robin. He dropped it when I told him to so I picked it up with a bag and threw it over the fence where he can’t get at it. I didn’t see it enough to figure out if it had been injured.
My basket is still upstairs now totally filled after I changed my bed. I too have plenty of underwear!
Have a great evening.
January 31, 2019 at 7:35 pm
To bad the Eiffel tower fell, it was actually quite nice π
It’s a nice enjoyable winter wonderland here, enough snow to lighten up this grey world without having polar temperatures. (Stay warm, dear Americans!) Unfortunately the snow won’t last long.
January 31, 2019 at 8:37 pm
The Eiffel Tower only broke in half; the top half got ripped off by the ferocious snow wind.
I didn’t get any snow though off cape did. We were also a couple of degrees warmer though when we’re walking 2Λ or 4Λ, I doubt it really matters. The mid-west is getting killed with so much wind the snow is causing white out conditions, and Chicago was -20, the actual temperature. This weekend though, we will get to 40Λ. I’m thinking weather is getting even weirder.
I’m glad you had an enjoyable winter wonderland. I’m glad someone did.
January 31, 2019 at 9:53 pm
Hi Kat,
When you and I were in school in the 1960s in the Northeast I donβt remember polar temperatures in the negative degrees. Right now NYC temperature is around 5 F degrees. Global warming results in weird weather swings. Today was cloudy with a high in the 50s. They are predicting 70s temperatures on Saturday and Sunday.
Thank goodness I donβt live in the north in the winter. Hawaii sounds nice, 70 degree temperatures year round.
January 31, 2019 at 11:37 pm
Hi Bob,
No, I don’t ever remember it getting that cold, but it did get as low as the 20’s. My father left too early to drive us so we were stuck walking no matter the weather. I don’t remember minding the weather except for rain on the way to school. I didn’t care if it rained when we were walking home, but I didn’t want to be wet sitting in school.
It will get to the high 50’s this weekend and Boston may hit 60Λ. That is such a great change from now to then.
I don’t mind living here. This winter is cold, but it will be spring and then summer, two lovely seasons here. The summers don’t get terribly hot here on the cape, maybe 90Λ a couple days.