Tuesday, December 09, 2008
Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
Yep; it's about that cold. It's not the cold so much as the wind and the "wintry mix" as they like to call it--snow, sleet, hail, drizzle, freezing rain, locusts, frogs, wombats and some other nasty critters from the Sargasso Sea--okay, I was kidding about the drizzle.
Winter is getting an early start here in Oswego. We've had snow about four or five days in a row, now. With the sub-freezing (near zero overnight) temps of the last several days it's been nasty. I've still got part of the house that has no membrane over the sheathing--old, drafty, plank sheathing--and it's right on the wall of my bedroom. That would have been taken care of by now, but I've been unable to do a lot of physical stuff that I used to breeze through. That'll teach me to live a dissolute life while young!
Fair warning, I'm working on my Earlywinter Feast Letter. Those of you to whom I haven't sent one in the past? well, your luck has run out.
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8 comments:
I have never received an EarlyWinter Feast Letter; I hope my luck is about to change.
Nomi:
Be careful what you wish for.
I think I owe you a phone call. I've been pretty much working all day for the last three or four days. I'll try to find a spot in the house that works for my cell phone (it's too cold to stand outside!)
My advice would be to begin drinking heavily. And if I were you I'd listen to me. I was in pre-med, after all.
Oh yeah - my heating bill has already jumped %100 in a month. I can't wait.
Tried to walk Teddy yesterday morning, but it was 8 degrees (lower with the windchill) and everything moist was freezing over, like, my eyeballs.
But I still I LOVE the Northeast!
You folks make me glad I live in the San Francisco Bay area. We don't really get much in the way of seasons, but it's a tradeoff I've accepted all my life (so far). I like to see snow when I visit my brothers in Colorado or Maryland, but I don't want to have to shovel it.
I'm a wimp.
(My word is "stess". I guess Clinton stole all the Rs from the keyboards.)
heartbreaktown:
You should walk from Black Falcon Pier up to Long Wharf some night when it's about 4 degrees with a Nor'easter blowin.
For those who don't yet know; tomorrow is a very special day in this young lady's life. I can't say what but it's initials are "H.B."
Mutzali:
You should not have told us where you live. We're headed there as soon as we can break the sled's runners out of the ice!
Richard:
I'm WAY ahead of you on that one.
Can you use the wombats that are being blown in on your blizzard to insulate your house? Just until spring?
Fran:
Wombats are surprisingly, given their relative density, poor insulators. Polar bear fur, otoh, is great insulation. I'm going to the zoo this weekend to collect some. I think they're asleep this time of the year.
democommie
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