{"id":573893017,"date":"2021-02-15T21:18:22","date_gmt":"2021-02-16T02:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573893017"},"modified":"2021-02-17T19:04:05","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T00:04:05","slug":"winter-showed-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2021\/02\/15\/winter-showed-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter showed up"},"content":{"rendered":"

That was some weekend, wasn’t it? Cold, ominous, and with inexorable weather rolling in for everyone. We had our usual Chick-fil-A on Saturday, a video chat that evening, and took a walk on Sunday just before that weather started making it’s presence known locally. <\/p>\n

It came in two waves here. One, last night, with a couple of inches of new snow. This on top of the three or four inches we got last week that never had a chance to melt. And the second wave is coming upon us now, and late into the evening. Forecasters suggest we’ll be getting an inch of snow per hour for a while. <\/p>\n

I went into the office today, because that’s what you do. And 15 minutes later the email came down: Work from home, people<\/em>. <\/p>\n

So I left at 2 p.m., because it was really starting to come down. I park in a parking deck at work, and my car was dry, but it was snowing enough to accumulate on the windshield and roof while sitting at a single red light. That, to me, seems like a lot of snow. <\/p>\n

So you drive slow, and stay well back. Fortunately not a lot of people were on the roads. I suspect the stay-at-home, the day’s work-from-home and just the wisdom of staying out of this foolish weather kept people safely indoors. Just before I made it to our neighborhood I could see the car ahead of me fishtailing in a roundabout. An ominous sign. After that, three-quarters of a mile, and the treacherous and unkempt roads of the neighborhood, lay between me and my safe, dry garage. So I slowed down even more, because that seems like a thing to do, and Icrept in. You could run it faster. But I made it, just in time to see the birds. <\/p>\n

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If that cardinal doesn’t impress you, perhaps you’d like to see the eastern bluebird. <\/p>\n

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We had three at one time, which was a lot for this time of year. These little thrushes should be in the southwest right about now, but they are back, so I’ll take that as a sign.<\/p>\n

They come and go through the shrubs and trees and bird feeders. Eventually the bluebirds gave way to warblers.<\/p>\n

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I would have thought the birds would be all in their nests right now, and building roofs. <\/p>\n

The snow makes for a neat backdrop, no?<\/p>\n

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The cats are doing just fine. They are warm and dry. They probably want to go outside, but I think they’d decide against the idea when their paws got cold. They are lightweights, like me. <\/p>\n

They can’t be perfectly untroubled by what’s going on outside. Phoebe is hunkering down, for some reason.<\/p>\n

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She’s lately developed a new pose that involves swimming over the shoulder.<\/p>\n

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Poseidon doesn’t know what that’s about, either.<\/p>\n

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When he’s not traumatizing his sister, or trying to figure out what she’s up to, he’s taking a great interest in laundry. It’s hard to fold sheets when he’s climbing inside of them.<\/p>\n

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I eventually turned a fitted sheet into a hammock for him and gently swung him back and forth until my arms got tired. I thought it might drive him away, but he liked it. Eventually I set the cat-carrying-sheet back on the floor and wrapped him up inside. You could hear him purring from six feet away. Eventually he climbed out a bit, so I folded the sheets around him. He was perfectly happy to stay like that for quite a while.<\/p>\n

Pretty smart cat, sometimes, wouldn’t you say? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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