I just took the dog out for a walk, and saw a TURKEY. On my street!

Heee! But, yeah, you're not that far from the hills, and there are indeed an impressive lot of wild turkeys in the hills. My dad took Matilda and me to his golf course (just down the freeway a bit from your house), and the grounds were covered with turkeys strutting around and glaring scornfully at us.

Ha, I totally lay in enough wood for the season and stock my pantry, but that has more to do with the fact that canning season is before winter. I need to haul wood again today but I doubt I'll actually do it, the day before my vacation. (Vacation!)

Prepare for winter? How?

I tend to dress differently during the winter than during the summer, as well as need to be sure I can dig out my car, and chip the ice off, and make sure I have AAA membership paid up. It's no coincidence I re-up in January even now. Because I'm too lame to have done it as prep, and did it reactively instead of pro-actively.

But mostly, I need to be mentally prepared to be bone chilled and intermittently wet with cold water, and that can take a month to even get ready for.

...sorry, there was a Hunger Games trailer and I got distracted...where was I?

Right, yeah, the boots come out, the swimsuits go away. And the brains makes its switches

This year, oddly, we seem to have been basically winter-free (I think March is late enough that I can say that without jinxing it)

Turns out sometimes the Starks are wrong.

Yeah, but the thing is you *have* to prepare for the winter, every fucking year. The thought makes me want to cry.

Oh, believe me, I don't want to live in blizzard country either. But if my house were hit by a tornado twice in two years, I'd be seriously considering moving somewhere with the kind of natural disasters I could hunker down and survive with my possessions intact.

Actually, that's one reason I like living here. We don't get so much in the way of natural disasters: we had a blizzard a couple years ago but winters are normally mild; we had a tiny freak earthquake last year; and every couple summers there's a tiny tornado that blows some shit around. Summers are hot and humid, which sucks, but is less disaster than inconvenience.

I think March is late enough that I can say that without jinxing it)

Well, crap. Now we're gonna get a late March blizzard, aren't we????

Plei, they make those dildos you were wondering about. Just holler if you want more information, and DON'T ASK why I know.

I probably don't want to know what kind of dildos, do I?

Now we're gonna get a late March blizzard, aren't we????

Junior year of high school, a friend and I were laying out in her backyard the last weekend of March, 70 degrees and sunny, and we got a blizzard that closed school the following week. On my birthday, no less, in April.

Winter is sometimes tricksy.

Winter is sometimes tricksy.

Yes it is. We had a bad blizzard one April when we lived in Denver. If we get one now, I'm totally blaming Debet.

I think, at that point, it's a freak Spring Blizzard, and does not count as winter.

t shouts to Universe It wouldn't count. It's too late already.