Ok...doing a nebulizer treatment, and the pets are TOTALLY freaking out. It's kind of funny. I think Toto thinks he needs to protect me from the loud machine. Poor guy!

Our temps have been in the 10s and 20s, but I think we may have passed 30 today. A week and a half ago, we were having record rains. Mudslides, etc. It's kind of funny, because Juneau is famous for rain, but we don't usually get a lot at a time as we usually have breaks and small drops. My dad gets more in a day in California than we'll get in a week. I have been physically unable to complain about cold weather since moving from Fairbanks, where I lived during their coldest month on record (January 1989). It was 45 degrees inside my apartment.

How common are SUVs on the highways of other people's towns?

We have lots here. Many of them are owned by folks with really good reasons, but most are owned by folks who just use them to commute and would do just as well with a smaller vehicle with four wheel drive. You can't always tell who has a good reason, though, so I try really hard to keep my grumbles and gripes to myself. I don't always succeed.

AmyLiz and Sophia Brooks

My niece is in Rochester. Does that count for anything? She's not a buffista. Or really a BtVS fan, although she liked it. So, I guess it doesn't count. But she's really great! She's finishing up school at Roberts Wesleyan.

toast:

I skipped like crazy, but saw someone else mention Plei's new job. Congratulations Plei!! I hope it works out wonderfully for you and family.

I think Toto thinks he needs to protect me from the loud machine. Poor guy!

Awww.

Nicole, insent.

Ooh, neat pictures! Reminds me I want to go back and see the rest of the country I didn't get to, and maybe in a better weather (it was v. cold while I was there, it being winter and all)

I have been physically unable to complain about cold weather since moving from Fairbanks, where I lived during their coldest month on record (January 1989).

60 below for 5 days straight, and they didn't even cancel school until the last day, when the buses finally gave up the ghost. Bastards.

However, I'd live through that again if I didn't have to deal with wind chill from straight-line winds like we get here. Not going to miss that, nope.

I remember being at a ski resort (x-county style) one weekend in Eagle River when the windchill had dropped below the scale on the Sherriff's equipment early on in the evening. It was a place with cabins and lodges, and your eyes would freeze closed in the 20 yard walk to the dining lodge.

They did cancel school in Milwaukee when it was in the -40s, not because the buses wouldn't run, but because it was too cold to have little kids standing at the bus stop waiting for it.

See, sj? Look at how cold it gets in other places! Our low for this week is only -6. That's nothing compared to the scary temps they're talking about.

And on that note, I'm going to snuggle up under the covers with a good book. The dog has three layers of fur, he has to stay above the covers.

Yeah, but it hasn't gone into the negatives here at all yet.

::hugs SoCal tightly to her chest::