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Saturday, January 30, 2010 – 3:17 p.m. EST:
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Ric
January 30, 2010 at 7:09 pm
Whatsit?
the chaplain
January 30, 2010 at 7:11 pm
Ric – It’s that white precipitation stuff that you’re supposed to get up north. Why the weather demons are dumping it here again (3rd time this winter) is beyond me.
Larry Wallberg
January 30, 2010 at 10:04 pm
Jeez. I thought it was a close-up of Ric’s beard.
PhillyChief
January 31, 2010 at 12:38 am
That looks just like my development, and they said we were just going to get a dusting. Oops!
Ric
January 31, 2010 at 8:26 am
chappie -
I meant the building, not the ugly white stuff. As for the weather demons, they’re probably pissed off because you don’t believe in them. (Do you?)
larry -
It’s gray, not white, and it’s only a goatee this year. (That’s a small goat for those of you not in on the secrets of the Illuminati.)
Chappie -
How do I reply to a particular comment?
the chaplain
January 31, 2010 at 9:24 am
Larry – Ric answered your question. Why would anyone wear a goat on his face?
Philly – That’s a lot of dust. I guess Mother Nature never heard of Pledge.
Ric – the building is a row of townhouses. Re: the comment reply question, I just turned on the nested comments feature; that will probably do the trick.
Ric
January 31, 2010 at 2:11 pm
Is that what they mean when they say ‘Take the pledge’? Or is that shoplifting?
“Nested comments” – sounds so comforting, doesn’t it?
Sarge
February 1, 2010 at 7:48 am
I know some people who live in Olney, MD and they have gotten more snow than we central pencil-tuckians have for the last several years.
I still think that you, (((Billy))), and Zoe should publish a coffee table photo book or calender. Your photography is fantastic!
Temaskian
February 3, 2010 at 11:54 am
Nice! I feel cold just looking at the picture. This from someone who has never experienced winter before in his life, being from the tropics.
Ric
February 3, 2010 at 12:10 pm
Oh sure, rub it in! Thanks a lot! Boooooo!
Temaskian
February 3, 2010 at 10:30 pm
Sorry if I sounded unsympathetic. I’ve never been in a cold country before, so I’ve always appreciated cold weather. So I don’t quite get what it means to be too cold for comfort. Really.
I guess I’m digging myself deeper into the hole.
I just wish I could experience what winter is like.
ildi
February 4, 2010 at 9:43 am
Well, there’s winter (fluffy snowflakes, sledding/skiing/ice skating, hot toddy, warm fire) and winter (dark, windchill cutting you to the bone like an ice cream headache w/out the ice cream, slipping on the frozen sidewalk on the way to the bus stop…)
Ric
February 4, 2010 at 11:24 am
Fill a bathtup with icecubes. Turn on a fan and point it at the tub. Take off your clothes. Climb into the tub.
Voila! Winter.
Temaskian
February 4, 2010 at 11:13 am
I must be looking for the first experience. Making of a snow man, throwing of snowballs, the kind of stuff I see in movies and comics.
The example about the ice-cream doesn’t help me to understand your pain. See, I like ice-cream. Where I live, ice-cream melts faster than you can say Jack Robinson.
ildi
February 4, 2010 at 11:43 am
You’ve never gotten an ice-cream headache? Lucky you! People usually get it when they consume something ice cold very fast, especially if it touches the roof of your mouth.
(((Billy)))
February 4, 2010 at 6:55 pm
And the good news? Another storm heading your way. Up here, it’s so freakin’ cold that we’re not getting snow. Nyaaah, Nyaaah, Nyaah!
the chaplain
February 4, 2010 at 8:21 pm
(((Billy))):
If I hadn’t known about the coming storm before this evening, the grocery store parking lots would have tipped me off. Shopping was a nightmare this evening, but I think we’re ready to hide out for another weekend; in fact, I’ve still got stew and stuff in the freezer from last weekend, just in case.
The good thing for me is that all of the storms thus far this winter have occurred on weekends; I haven’t had to miss any work days and burn up personal leave to keep the money coming in. I’ll probably have to leave work early tomorrow, but I won’t lose any pay. Being a salaried employee sucks when one works mega-hours a week and doesn’t get paid overtime, but it’s great when one can show up for a minimal period of time (which will likely happen tomorrow), then go home early without losing any pay. It all balances out in the end.
Sarge
February 5, 2010 at 4:29 pm
As long as I lived in the DC area I could never understand whay all the traffic problems with snowy weather.
Just about everyone who lives there originally comes from where there IS a lot of snow, and how they seem to forget what to do every year makes me wonder how they manage in other aspects of their life.
Sarge
February 5, 2010 at 4:23 pm
I just got back about two hours ago from the DC area. I had to go to Walter Reed for another exam (why them and not the VA? No one knows, it’s just so) and we pulled out for home about 0800 this morning. Wife usually hates the traffic, but since almost everything was closed already, we didn’t have any trouble on the road.
We sure saw the black buzzards and geese, though, and I mean geese lierally by the acre. Toward Frederick there had to have been literally ten acres of geese standing side by side in one big field. I was thinking of you, Billy, and Cloe and what you could do with something like that if you had your cameras.
@ temaskian: I was stationed in southeast Alabama from 1872 until 1976, and in 1973 they had the first big snow they had experienced in sixty four years. It laid two feet deep in places like Clio, and where I worked at a radar site at Elamville. Literally paralized that part of the state for over a week. (My car had a positraction rear-end, and for some reason I’d brought my snow chains with me, so my wife and I were the official transportation of where we lived)
There wasn’t much at Elamville but a general store, and the old gentleman who ran it asked us northern boys if this was the way it always was with snow (this was about two weeks after the storm).
We told him that he’d had just a little taste of what most northern weather was like, if he had been in the north there would still be a lot of snow and more behind it. There was a lot of damage in his area, but he could be pretty sure that he would be snow free from there on out.
He said that he knew we’d probably think he was just an old hick, but he’d never left the state of Alabama in his life, never been more than fifty miles from the spot wer stood on, he was sixty five years old, and he’s always wanted to experience snow. Seen pictures of it, we even got some flurries once in a while, but he’d wondered what it would be like, this snow experience.
Well, he’d seen it, played with his grandchildren in it, and if it never came again while he was still alive, it would please him mightily!
Ric
February 5, 2010 at 4:50 pm
Christ, Sarge, I had no idea you were that much older than me! And did they really have radar in 1873?
the chaplain
February 5, 2010 at 4:57 pm
Oddly enough, the view from my window at this moment looks a lot like it did in the photo above. So, instead of posting another very similar photo, I’ll just re-direct your attention above if you’re interested in seeing what things look like in my neighborhood today.
Sarge
February 5, 2010 at 7:35 pm
Ric, pardon the typo, I meant 1972…although lately it FEELS like I’ve been around since then. Interferon will do that to ya.
Then again, maybe I’m actually the guy in the song:
I was born about ten thousand years ago,
There ain’t nuthin’ in the world that I don’t know,
I saw Peter, Paul, and Moses,
Playin’ “Ring Around the’ Roses’,
And I’ll whup the man who says
It isn’t so!
Ric
February 6, 2010 at 8:36 am
Temaskian
February 6, 2010 at 10:51 pm
@Sarge,
Ten thousand years ago! The universe ain’t even been created yet!
Lucky for the old gentleman who got to experience snow at last.
@Ric,
Thanks for that example, I think I got a better idea now. Brrr!