08:11 – Barbara goes to the doctor for a follow-up visit this week. She’s really hoping he’ll approve her to drive and return to work. She’s still in some pain, but she’s stopped taking the oxycodone and is now taking tramadol. If I were her doctor, I’d approve her to return to work.
The blizzard that hit the northeast didn’t make it this far south. But we had cold rain Friday night and yesterday morning and lows last night about a degree above freezing, so we just missed it. As has been true of all our Border Collie pups, the cold weather invigorates Colin, not that he needs any invigorating. For the last couple of days, he’s been charging around disregarding his leash, sometimes nearly pulling me off my feet. We use a long roller leash, and Colin learned very early exactly how long it was. Ordinarily, he knows he’s about to run out of leash and stops before it jerks him to a stop. Lately, he’s been ignoring that.
“The blizzard that hit the northeast didn’t make it this far south. But we had cold rain Friday night and yesterday morning and lows last night about a degree above freezing, so we just missed it. ”
Well, I guess that it got OFD….maybe AlGore will bail him out by categorizing the blizzard as an “inconvenient truth.”
Can anyone stomach this clip/quote from BJ Clinton
“I have a pretty good idea how the 21st century works and (pause) there’s not a single successful country on the planet that operates on the theory that the government is the problem (pause) not one. Every successful country has both a strong private economy and a smart, strong government that work together to provide economic opportunity, educational opportunity, provide decent health care and get into the future.”
http://www.breitbart.tv/bill-clinton-no-country-on-earth-believes-government-is-the-problem/
No blizzard this far north. We got maybe an inch or two of wet snow splatter here at the farm and I hear via other sources that points south got hammered, I guess. The cries of outrage and fury have hit my email box this AM. I weep crocodile tears.
I assured them that we will get ours soon enough.
Well, Massachusetts must be bearing the brunt. Another forum I go to is located there and they are offline due to power outages from the Nor’easter in the area. Must be an East Nor-easter to miss OFD.
I used to live in Mass., not too far from the NH border. It snows there – outside of Boston itself, it snows a lot. I often had a couple of feet of snow to shovel.
And yet…every year, when the first snow storm hits, the whole state grinds to a halt, like they’ve never seen this white stuff before.
Upstate NY, here, a bit north of Albany. We got enough snow Saturday night for the preschooler to get excited — wet, sloppy stuff because it was barely below freezing. By Sunday afternoon only north-facing or shadowed slopes had any left. But it was still enough for the preschooler to get bundled up in her snowsuit and roll down the hill and get pulled around on a sled by her faithful draft
horsedaddy.My neighbor’s parents came to live with him a few months ago. They’re from Chengdu, Sichuan, PRC, the same as my wife and her parents. Sichuan is kinda southerly and Chengdu is in a valley, so they see a few flakes of snow every few years. This light snowfall is a good way to introduce them to the white stuff — no sense scaring them back home by dumping two feet on them right off. No, we’ll do the same as with my wife’s parents: a light snow fall — Ooh! So beautiful! — then a week later more snow so my wife could make a snowman — Oh, so beautiful! — then a couple weeks later a bigger storm that does not shut down the city — It’s like a blanket! — and then a bigger storm that does stop things for a day — It’s so quiet and peaceful! — and then more snow — We’re starting to get tired of this. — and then more — Doesn’t winter ever end here? — and then a January blizzard that shuts down JFK so they can’t go home anyway.
Yeah, well today is Halloween, and I haven’t bought any candy yet, and the storm is unseasonably early. Some areas have reported 32″ of snow! That’s grinding height!
What Brad said. When it snows for the first time each year in MA, NJ, DC, etc., the locals act like it is Armageddon and Apocalypse rolled into one. Up here, not so much. When I lived in MA, the Boston stations would report their own weather most of the time and screech about their snow storms and ignore the (usually) far greater amounts west of the city. As a kid growing up southeast of Worcester near the Rhode Island border, I remember heavy snowfalls every winter, starting in October (sometimes in September) and continuing right into April (one memorable dumping of five inches heavy wet stuff in May, bringing down trees and power lines). Eleven inches one early October and then all gone the very next day and temps in the 80s. Central MA is also notable for sightings of funnel clouds and one horrific tornado just before I was born in 1953, signalling, no doubt, my nativity in this world of sin, error and darkness, lux ad gentium, ha, ha.