October 14, 2007
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First Snowfall
I may have been mistaken last week when I said we would not get any “practice snow” this year, the kind that melts away within hours or days. When I said that, the ground had been frozen and days and nights were staying below freezing. Then we had two warmer days, with nighttime temps in the 40s F. Last night, it rained. Then it snowed. Then it was rain and snow mixed for a while around dawn. What it does next is anyone’s guess.
I only had to take a few steps out my door to get the image above. That’s as far as I plan to go today, and the nearest I expect to get to actual productive work. Much of my energy is going into coughing. At least it’s a productive cough.
In a reflective ( and probably anoxic ) moment recently, while I considered the sensitivities of some of my readers — the ones who wince at my descriptions of pain and malfunction, or who scroll quickly past the pictures I post of cuts, abrasions, burns and scars, I created a new Xanga account: oversharing. If you possess a curiosity that’s stronger than any squeamishness you may have, maybe you’d want to sub or friend or something.
If I feel energetic enough later today, I’ll post something over there about what my cough has been producing. Or maybe I’ll post it here. It’s not as if I haven’t already done a lot of oversharing here already. I joked one time that my nic should have been, “oversharing.” Now it is.
Comments (6)
have a good rest. i just got up from a good nap.
Glad you’re horking up great golden gobs of glop. Feels almost as good as picking your nose and getting a good goober. Ahhh the best things in life are free. I better go join that blogring.
LOL…well you KNOW I’ll just have to go over there and join that one. hehe
Snow was entirely too close to me yesterday… just a state away. Argh. I’m not ready for winter and cold and snow!
We haven’t had much cold weather yet. And compared to yours, it’s not cold! I saw an guy last year (semi-friend? aquaintance?) while I was hunting that had just come from Alaska where he’s been living for about 15 years now. He was wearing a t-shirt and light jacket while I was dressed with my cold weather gear, long johns, and all that stuff! Can we say acclimation?
When we have rain and snow, we usually get lots of breakage on trees.
Stay warm!
Somehow my brain took the word ‘anoxic’ and turned it into ‘anorexic’, which left me completely baffled when I tried to read the rest of that paragraph. “Wait, what does this have to do with anor… Oh. Duh.”
And now to see which force is stronger, squeamishness or curiosity…