Still unnecessarily cold here, but sunny. But cold. So nothing is melting. A bit later in the week we are forecast to get just a bit above freezing, and so maybe the yards and roofs will finally have a chance to be free of this thin blanket of snow we’ve enjoyed since Saturday.
I forgot to share it, but when I went out to check the mail on Monday night, this was our road.
The township doesn’t clean the roads. I don’t mean to say they’re bad at it. They don’t do it. But one of our neighbors has a tractor and a plow and he lives for this. So after the weather system passed through on Saturday, he was out patrolling the roads. He does our neighborhood, and two others, on either side of us. He refuses gas money. He loves it.
It snowed again after he cleaned the road, but just enough to leave an impression. It was perfectly safe to drive. It just wouldn’t melt, until Tuesday afternoon. Today, the roads are perfectly dry.
I loaded up the car with several weeks of recycling and took them to the inconvenience center. Cardboard boxes, collapsed, go in this giant bin. Aluminum, glass and plastic all go in this large, unsorted bin. It was cold enough to wear gloves. Depending on the time of day you were outside, the wind chill was somewhere between 14 and 5 below. I chose the former.
It’s not the best story, it’s not even a story, really, but it was a cold story.
To make up for it, here’s the site’s most popular weekly feature, our check-in with the kitties.
Phoebe loves to nap on the cozy blankets.
Some days, all of ’em right now, you want to get cozy under the blankets.
Poseidon has figured out another technique, here he is, sitting loyally next to my feet by the space heater.
It’s funny how the usual can look unusual.
I don’t often see him from a low angle, I guess.
OK, enough waiting around. I’ll go do something productive. First, I’ll ride my bike.
