Lots of snow. Big wind. Hopefully it will calm down a bit before I leave in an hour and a half. I think I will take my camera and get some shots.

Do that! I'm rethinking my plan of walking up to the Dunkin' Donuts to get a paper and fried bakery products. Not that it's dangerous, but it would be uncomfotably cold....

Flatmate and Other Flatmate just headed out into the storm for church. They are Congregationalists! They have to congregate!! Not really -- actually they are a small congregation full of really hardy people who live less than a mile away from the church.

I, OTOH, made coffee and watered the plant and the cat, and am going to make a pie.

Five years ago, I woke up at midnight to the flashers of emergency vehicles on my street, only to head outside and see that it was to move a tree that had falled in the road. (I never heard the tree fall.) The firefighters looked at me like I was some kind of alien, and I was like, Hey, you woke me up, dudes.

Just a few months ago I did hear someone down the street crash into several parked cars while showing off. (He was trying to sell his car, in fact, which -- probably not the most effective method.)

I don't have a lot of BOOM stories.

The view from my back windows: [link] .

If a tree falls in the woods, does it make a sound Nutty can hear?

Only if a cheetah is in it?

The storm here seems more wind than snow at this point. In related news, I just discovered that the wind has pushed in one of the panes in the basement window on the windward side of the house, which helps explain why it was, like, 40° down there went I went to do some laundry this morning. I have covered the opening with an old towel wedged in place with a couple of pieces of plywood. Another future home repair goes on the list.

t Not here

msbelle, thanks for posting these pictures!

(Oh, and I hope you feel OK now after last week)

t Really not here

t Running back for a quick wave to DXM

t OK, that's it

Pretty snow.

One morning, as my mom and us kids were leaving to go to school (my mom was a teacher's aid) (my dad was out of town at a convention) we saw an ambulance with flashing lights parked at our farm. Turned out the hired hand's wife called it, as the hired hand was unconscious after being kicked by a cow. Although later we surmised our hired hand's alcoholism had something to do with it. Kids on a school bus had seen the ambulance, so everybody was asking me about it.

Several years later, I was the only one home and had to watch out for the hired had, as he was wasted. He nearly wrecked some expensive farm machinery. Later, he fell into a gutter that was full of manure and couldn't get out. At that point I didn't know he was an alcoholic, and I had never seen anyone that drunk before, so the whole thing was distressing to me.

edit - too early to spell

Here's the view out of my window this morning: [link]