January 22, 2004
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Have a
Happy
Year of the
Monkey
Somehow Monkey doesn’t have the intriguing sound of Year of the Tiger or Year of the Dragon, but I’ll bet it’s going to be an interesting year.
Around midnight, Doug, Greyfox and I went out and set off the rest of our fireworks left over from January first. Greyfox lit the fuses. That’s the brown leather Russian military holster holding his new Makarov 9mm on his hip. He’s responsible for the whole New Year’s celebration. Late in December Gorilla Fireworks mailed out promotional flyers with coupons for free fireworks. Doug and I were both on their mailing list… dunno how that happened and how Greyfox happened to be left out. We would have just pitched the junk mail unread, but Greyfox paid attention and saw that there were free coupons on each flyer. He stopped by once in December and got the $10.00 worth of free fireworks from my coupon. Then we stopped again on Jan. 1, the day the coupon expired, to see if we’d won the drawing for the $2004 worth of fireworks, and used Doug’s coupon to acquire the things we set off tonight.
This was a much more pleasant night to be out there making noise and lighting up the snow than the night of Dec. 31. It has warmed up to near the freeze/thaw point. What a relief that is after sub-zero for weeks. Neighbors report that their thermometers registered temps down to minus fifty Fahrenheit a few nights ago when it dipped suddenly, but the coldest we noticed on ours was about -32 or so. Sixty-some degrees below freezing is way cold enough. Such weather always reminds me of something Greyfox said during his first winter here: “Forty below make zero seem warm.” Now, at about thirty above, I can feel and smell the moisture in the air. My lungs love it. I can breathe out there… it’s great! It has been in the high fifties in here all day, comfy and warm.
Happy New Year, y’all.
Comments (4)
Oh, so glad it’s warmed up some….now if you could send some of that to us in Utah, where we are in our 20th day of below freezing w/ dangerous levels of particulates in our air. Elderly, asthmatics and children advised to stay indoors. (I fit 2 of those descriptions.)
I bet that feels to you like the seventies and eighties fell to us…
We’ve had a cold snap here this past week, a few storm days and lots of snow, unusual for this province. I don’t know if I could handle the extreme cold that I was accustomed to in Manitoba anymore…. 6 yrs of relatively mild winters have made me into a wimp. lol
man! that’s a chunk of change to spend on fireworks!!! how fun that’d be!
glad you all were able to go outside and ring in the year of the monkey.