My toy Fiat Snow-ometer on my kitchen window sill. This with the winter's first measurable snow on it. Last year I had shots of it from December on. This year we start in fucking March.
Yeah we had six inches before Thanksgiving, but that was late fall. We're talking winter here. The chances of a big one before the heatwaves start,...sometimes in April, are slim.
But I'm hoping.
I have online FB pals in Australia, and New Zealand. Their current summer is the hottest ever recorded. They say it's been in the 100's for weeks at a time there. A pal reacting to the above pix a few minutes ago said it was 112f where he was at this very time.
...fuck.
Here I'm complaining we're only getting two inches here. I'm sitting at my screen posting, and looking out my open window at the snow. I loves it so.
I slept in it during my houseless time.
I preferred it to resting in the rain. With snow you can bundle ya self. With rain you just get wet cold, and sick. Not so with snow if you know what ya doing. Amazing what one can adapt to when you have no choice.
I even loved it then.
I loved the snow when I had to live in it. I figured if I fell asleep in a storm, and froze that would be the gentlest way to pass.
You're right about getting sick in the rain. It's been raining and raining here, and as you'll recall I was sick for two months. Plus this climate fosters mold. To tell you the truth, I'd love to live a thousand miles south of here, maybe more.
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I'd go North.
ReplyDeleteI'm a snow person. Heat was never a friend. Btw a big storm just missed us again. Just 10 miles north of the city is getting a foot. A dusting then rain for us.
So we get the nastiness, but not the fun of snow. Typical. If I were very young I'd abandon NYC to the rats yuppies, and killer cops.
Then apply for refugee status in Canada. They take American citizens whom they judge to be at risk,...that would be me.
I'd settle in the North West Territories.
It's become multi-cultural in the last 20 years. Sure there's still pissed off white guys with guns, but they mostly stay to themselves now. However now, and then they act out.
One neo-Nazi murdered a whole Native family. He got three life sentences. ...in solitary. They do that with hate criminals so they don't organize other nutters in jail.
His pals got 20 to life each. Yeah the Canuck feds were making an example.
This would not happen here. Here they might not even call it a Hate Crime. ...Just some boys out for a bit of fun is all.
I get it about the snow - the crisp clear air, none of that soggy pneumoniac misery. But I think I'm more of a desert person. There are plenty of deserts where it snows, too. Grand Canyon sometimes gets a dusting of white powder; I bet it crunches underfoot.
ReplyDeleteAs for that looney - sounds like the Canadians have a handle on the concept of justice.
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