Warm snap. With more snow possibly starting today.
It’s too warm for my liking.
I wish I could ship the weather to you guys who are tired of snow.
We need to apply Preen to the garden paths…but maybe the snow gives us another week or so. It has to be redone several times during the season so we don’t want to be too early.
Can’t see any fishes yet. They’re snug asleep in the dark depths.
Jane’s left the side garage door open for the neighborhood cats—we have a serious mouse problem in the garage, and Frick and Frack were certainly interested in something in there this morning. I hate to be unkind to the mice, but we’ve had a heckuva lot of work and damage occasioned by those fellows, and we sure don’t want them nesting in one of the cars. We had a mattress stored in there a couple of years ago, and they really hollowed it out. The smell would knock a troll over.
Meanwhile Jane’s on track to get her page fixed. I feel badly for that: the crash was my fault, entirely. Her software took serious exception to my effort to get the spammers out of her reg list.
Anyway, it’s too balmy out there.
But it’ll change.
We’re playing GW2 in the evenings, which is great relaxation and a chance to get together with Lynn. We need that social contact.
I have now dieted off all but the last regained pound. Corn, I tell you, is not our friend.
I was in Dayton this afternoon for my guitar lesson. It just started sprinkling when I got out of the car. By the time I got back to my car 20 minutes later (I was 10 minutes late for the lesson), it was raining harder, and starting to freeze. When I got to the major street that I take to get back to the interstate highway, it was starting to ice up my outside mirrors. I got home almost an hour later, usually takes about 40 minutes. My wiper arms were encrusted, the mirrors on both sides of the car are covered. The windshield and rear window stayed clear. Probably not clear now, and the windows in my house are also iced over……I’m in for the night.
Glug!
Login fixed!
Interesting map of January US weather:
http://io9.com/the-united-states-weird-january-weather-summarized-in-1523940978
East of the Rockies, colder or much colder but not record-breaking.
West of the Rockies, warmer or much warmer and record-breaking in an area about the size of California’s central valley, but north a bit (all but the southern-most central valley to the Oregon border, far N of the central valley).
Fixed (if it was broken) on my other computer, too.
Oh! You finished your untitled Foreigner book. Good for you!
Oops! Misread Peacemaker for the unnamed. Sorry, all!
Amazon says my pre-order for Peacemaker, hardbound and ebook, are still there. Yay! The release date is still showing April 1st. Less than a month and a half! Yay! Less than a month until my next birthday. Oh, my….
Corn and ham may not be our friends but, in certain circumstances, they are essential! For instance, when naming a miniature house elf…
Tommie, you’re going to get me in the mood for St. Paddy’s Day early. House elves, corn, ham…cabbage, carrots…. Hmm, will have to get a corned beef brisket in time for next month.
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Good news, bad news, in the writerly part of my brain. I’ve been trying to work out what I want to do with a given genre or story trope, something I haven’t seen before. I’ven been getting ideas in that genre and like them, but it wasn’t going into the new area. Good news: I think I have something solid for a new take on things, but bad news, it’s still not the other that I think is even more original. However, with this new spin, I think I can be confident I have something solid for one take on the genre, which means I still need to work out the other, more original concept. Well… that’s encouraging overall. 😀 (Note: it’s fantasy genre more than science fiction. I have something going over in the science fiction genre too. … If I could get things to gel enough so I’d focus on one story with a complete plot…sigh…still, progress is progress.)
Heck, I had to do the winter-end-clean-out and lily repot on the pond already. THE POND LILIES HAD A BLOOM COMING! Fishies are getting fat and stupid and I’m expecting to have to start chasing them out of the pre-filter any second now.
I suppose it wouldn’t matter anyway, the 6 or 8 inches of rain in the past week would have been enough to trigger ‘fat and stupid’ fish, but the muck on the bottom needed to go and there were a few leaks that needed repair.
But, its done, the filter is up and running again after being shut down for a few weeks, and lilies are fertilized. The fish are on their own with fertilizing, I have lava rock in the top to keep the lilies anchored or I’d be repotting them AGAIN.
IMO, losing the excess so quickly is all the evidence one requires to attribute it to water retention. The lesson may be the hidden salt in some recipes. The body needs to make it an isotonic solution to process it.
The chili cook-off had to be rescheduled for this week at work and it will be close to 60! I am waiting for the rest of the mess to melt and considering a betting pool for the spring floods. Normal stuff not the once in 100 years type.
Sunday a.m. I wandered outside, noted the density, speed and direction of the cloud cover, and offhandedly remarked to DH, “I’d better mow this morning; by night we’ll be getting rained on.” Lo, and it was so. DH was surprised at my weather prognostication, aided and abetted by weather radar. This has been the rainiest wet season in a decade. We’re trying to get all our ducks in a row for our upcoming vacation. A couple of friends have agreed to camp out, see that Zorro is fed, and discourage mischief.