I'm trying to talk my mother out of walking up to the hospital to see her sister (who had colon cancer surgery a week ago yesterday, and now needs some physical rehab). Mum keeps talking about the roads being bad, and I keep telling her they're a heck of a lot more clear than the sidewalks, because the road she'll be taking is Main St. which has been salted, sanded, and plowed, and driven on for three days, now.
She's very stubborn, though. I may stoop to making her afraid she'll aggrevate her sore neck if she slips.
Everything is lovely and non-icy except my porch steps, which are the lovely sort of icy that you don't know is there until you stumble out there sleepily in your pajamas and fleece slippers to let the dog into his kennel in the morning. Just hypothetically.
Edited to clarify that sleepily modifies me, not the dog. The dog is wide awake and very happy. He doesn't mind icy porch steps because he leaps over them.
It was a whole 4F this morning when I got downtown, and on the way, I apparently sat in the Arctic Blast seat on the bus. I am still shivering in my office.
Well, the high today is supposed to be 20F. Early next week it should be in the upper 30s. Warm enough to melt this white stuff, or so Science tells me....
Did you land on your hypothetical ass?
We've really lucked out with the temperatures and etc -- basically every sidewalk is clear at this point, even the ones that were only half-assedly shoveled.
I did not. I grabbed the hypothetical stair railing and uttered a hypothetical curse. The dog wagged his hypothetical tail and looked at me to see why the kennel door wasn't open yet.
Yay bonbob! I'm so happy for both of you.
It was 19 degrees here this morning. That's a stupid number of degrees for it to be in the south. 65 is a better number.
Well, the high today is supposed to be 20F.
It had better get warmer, or Dana will die when she shows up this evening!
We've really lucked out with the temperatures and etc -- basically every sidewalk is clear at this point, even the ones that were only half-assedly shoveled.
Not all the sidewalks are clear here but the ones that weren't shoveled are covered in hard snow/ice that is kind of crunched up on the top mostly so it's not too hard to walk on.
However, I did get stuck across my alley trying to get into my parking pad yesterday afternoon. My wheels could find no purchase on the ice (although I did clean off my car I'd failed to shovel the parking pad when that was still possible on Wednesday). Luckily, a man from the construction place behind my house came by with a shovel and chipped out some ruts for my wheels. Hooray for good samaritans!!
