Posts from ‘January, 2010’

It’s going to be in the 30s tomorrow! Yay!!!!Yippee!!!WooHoo!!!! The snow is going to melt! Not that I haven’t enjoyed freezing my earlobes off trudging through snow up to my thighs for the last few weeks. I mean who wouldn’t. It’s just that I lost one of my mittens in the snow and it was [...]

You broke my shovel. Are you happy now?

I’ve played this video for my cats. They are not amused.

Announced by all the trumpets of the sky, Arrives the snow, and, driving o’er the fields, Seems nowhere to alight: the whited air Hides hills and woods, the river, and the heaven, And veils the farmhouse at the garden’s end. The sled and traveller stopped, the courier’s feet Delayed, all friends shut out, the housemates [...]

With all the new snow and the blowing snow I feel Like my biggest accomplishment today has been keeping a cleared path in the snow for my little dog. That and possibly drinking my weight in coffee.

I know my area hasn’t gotten anywhere near as much snow as some places, but still…

My neighborhood is noisy. We have some kind of weird acoustic mojo. You can hear everything. EVERYTHING. I would like to spend time in my yard without being privy to the intimate details of my neighbors’ lives so I’ve been looking into noise reducing shrubbery. It would also help if my neighbors would stop yellin’ [...]

“If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves.” ~Lane Kirkland This quote pretty much sums up how I’m feeling about getting things done. I want to laze around on the couch, eating bon-bons and thinking good thoughts while faeries or gremlins or magical gnomes get [...]

Well… new to me anyway. With a little paint and some new upholstery I think these are gonna be pretty darn sweet.

The weather people have been threatening us with a gazillion inches of lake effect snow since New Year’s Eve. It finally showed up today.