Tuesday 26 February 2013

On the plus side of nothing

It would seem (fingers crossed behind my back) that Spring may be in the air.

I say this because, despite the mounds of thigh deep snow everywhere, the thermometer has actually inched up to just a tad above zero. Visual proof below, taken through my livingroom window, mere moments ago.


Now I realize that I live in an area with a climate virtually identical to Siberia's, but sometimes the seasonal change comes early and isn't plagued with spring blizzards and wicked cold snaps. No way of telling if those will occur, but for now, I can revel in the fact that the sun is shining cheerily out there and the roads will be slushy. Best top up the windshield washer fluid before I head to work this afternoon!

The flood forecast is supposed to be issued sometime this week. Looking at the amount of snow in my tiny little yard, I am wondering if any of it will end up trying to seep (read: pour) into my tiny little basement. Good thing I have a sump pump down there.



I also wonder about the humongous cap of snow on my rooftop. (No, I don't have a photo of that.) It looks nice, and is very insulating, but what happens when it starts to melt? Will it avalanche off in huge clumps, smothering me as I walk along to my back door? I'll have to keep my wits about me and leap under the overhang if that happens. (And if I don't, they'll find me after the spring thaw.)

So, I am back, I guess. Not sure if I will keep this up regularly but I will try and post once in a while. I've not fallen down a facebook hole, never to be seen or heard from again.

15 comments:

  1. Took me a bit to figure out how to turn the comments back on...

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  2. Yay! You're back! Let's hope the comment box doesn't get snowed up again.
    Sx

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  3. Scarlet: Thanks! The snowing of the comments box was all my doing... but at least I figured out how to get it functional again! xoxo

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  4. What? You can plumb in your own bathroom suite yet you cannae work a comment box?

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  5. Chef: I got it working, didn't I?!!? I guess some things come more naturally than others.

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  6. Yaaay! She alive!

    Come, join meself and Shrek-face for a drink, something from the top shelf. He insists on paying! :¬)

    xxx

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  7. Map: I do indeed seem to have a pulse, which does make me alive. ;-)

    Sounds like a grand idea! I'm rather partial to Bailey's these days.

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  8. There are so many ways in which I could respond to that sweetcheeks.

    Naturally...

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  9. Chef: Feel free to reply any way that suits you. *wink, wink*

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  10. And you know how much I bitched about -3'C and 4 inches of snow...

    I don't know how you live there, I really don't.

    But then I *was* born in the tropics. It's my only excuse damnit!

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  11. Roses: I've lived in San Diego, California and southern Texas... and I missed the four seasons. I can't say I *like* when it's -40 but I do like the changes and the snow. Although I did like the heat in San Diego...

    Your excuse is as good as any! But if you moved here, you would acclimatize. We have lots of people from the Philippines (more than 60K in my city alone) and other tropical places. They do just fine! ;-)

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  12. Oh, hai!

    It lightly snowed three times the last week I was in Berlin. That was my Winter. Otherwise, it has been unseasonably warm in this part of Texas. [sigh]

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  13. Yes, she's definitely back, little minx! :¬)

    xxx

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  14. I feared the cats had packed you away in a box!

    Glad to see you, as it were. :)

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