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Enough all ready
Feb. 7th, 2007 08:27 amI'm ready for the bone numbing cold to stop. I can more or less deal with the snow. It's a pain to drive in, and after dark sends me into wonderful panics if I have to do so, but it's pretty in its way.
But the cold can go. Today actually felt WARM because it was up to 8ºF this morning with a wind chill of only -15º.
It's been too damn cold out to do anything more than run (or penguin waddle) between work and the car and the car and home. And at home, the downstairs of my townhouse is so cold that I don't like staying there. Hell, I get home from work and get greeted by three cats (yes all three), herded into the pantry to feed them, given 20 minutes to find myself some dinner and check my email before they start yelling at me to come upstairs, curl up under blankets with them and be warm. And this is with keeping the thermostat set at 76º. You know it's cold when even Miss Alex The Anti-Social is puppy piled with the other two and UNDER blankets.
In theory it is supposed to warm up some this weekend so that Dicea and I can go out and help with the Flat Stanley project. Right now I have three pictures for it. We may end up having to do post cards and say that we would have loved to have taken Flat Stanley around to see all the neat and historical places in the Buffalo-Niagara Region of New York, but perhaps he needs to come visit again in either April or October when we are not risking severe frostbite.
I love the idea behind the project for teaching kids about other places in their world. Hell, just the little bit of research I did to find different historical and tourist places around here was rather enlightening. But it certainly would be easier if we weren't fighting Mother Nature to help out.
I am almost tempted to do a picture of Flat Stanley in a snow bank next to a snow shovel and include a quote for a very short run TV show: "Welcome to Buffalo, grab a shovel".
OK, I'm done for now. I guess the moral of this little rant is - Ekat hates being cold.
But the cold can go. Today actually felt WARM because it was up to 8ºF this morning with a wind chill of only -15º.
It's been too damn cold out to do anything more than run (or penguin waddle) between work and the car and the car and home. And at home, the downstairs of my townhouse is so cold that I don't like staying there. Hell, I get home from work and get greeted by three cats (yes all three), herded into the pantry to feed them, given 20 minutes to find myself some dinner and check my email before they start yelling at me to come upstairs, curl up under blankets with them and be warm. And this is with keeping the thermostat set at 76º. You know it's cold when even Miss Alex The Anti-Social is puppy piled with the other two and UNDER blankets.
In theory it is supposed to warm up some this weekend so that Dicea and I can go out and help with the Flat Stanley project. Right now I have three pictures for it. We may end up having to do post cards and say that we would have loved to have taken Flat Stanley around to see all the neat and historical places in the Buffalo-Niagara Region of New York, but perhaps he needs to come visit again in either April or October when we are not risking severe frostbite.
I love the idea behind the project for teaching kids about other places in their world. Hell, just the little bit of research I did to find different historical and tourist places around here was rather enlightening. But it certainly would be easier if we weren't fighting Mother Nature to help out.
I am almost tempted to do a picture of Flat Stanley in a snow bank next to a snow shovel and include a quote for a very short run TV show: "Welcome to Buffalo, grab a shovel".
OK, I'm done for now. I guess the moral of this little rant is - Ekat hates being cold.
