I said it would snow, because the meteorologists said it would snow. And so it snowed, light flurries pretty much all weekend. We got maybe two inches out of the deal. Here’s some video proof:
And here’s some slow-mo snow, ponderous precipitation, facile flurries:
It was melting away in the early afternoon, yesterday, but more flakes fell, amounting to little of nothing and that will be the last of it for a while. Sun and clouds for the next few days. And Thursday we might hit 46 degrees! A delightfully mild week seems like just the thing, doesn’t it?
Let’s check in with the cats, who are a handful and just fine, thanks.
Phoebe is checking out something on that first sunny day we enjoyed after a long stretch of bleh.
Fortunately she was able to work in a bit of sunbathing into her busy schedule.
Poseidon spends a lot of his mornings contemplating the deeper things in life, like ‘What is spotted ball?’
He, too, enjoys the sun. Sitting on the cat tree lets him be taller than you, and he can really fill the frame.
Sometimes I think he understands the idea behind camera sense. Sometimes I think he’s a philosopher cat. Usually, he’s just … we call him high spirited.
Had a great bike ride, going up the Alpe du Zwift. I am so very slow, and it takes me forever. But I did hold off a couple of people the whole way up the mountain. They were the other slow climbers, like me.
Scroll around and look at this climb:
The map looks reminiscent of my Alpe D’Huez shirt, which I am wearing this evening in honor of my massive video game accomplishment. I found the photo function on Zwift, because on a long slow climb, you can discover new things. This is right after the summit:
This was on the descent:
That’s my second hors categorie, or beyond categorization, climb. I am so slow. It actually snowed on the climb. The app showed little drifts of snow scurrying across the road as I huffed and puffed. It has a lot of detail to it.
Twelve mile climb, 3,753 feet of elevation, and an average gradient of 8.5 percent yesterday, and a punchy little workout today, means I will feel them both tomorrow, too.
