It pretty much RAINED here all day!! Most of Vermont was getting snow, but here in the Champlain Valley we got rain, as the temperature teetered all day between 32F and 33F. A couple of times we saw it switch to snow, but only for a short while, then back to rain. I closed the Library at 8pm on the border of Underhill where it had just a short while before changed over to snow. I drove two miles west to get home in Jericho and it was still raining when I got here. After about 15 minutes it changed over to all snow, with INCREDIBLY HUGE flakes!!
Killington (>2000ft) has over a foot of snow, and Waitsfield in the middle of Vermont had 4" by 5:20pm, as it began snowing there at 11:15am. That's great as that's where my family will gather this weekend!!
Sis bought me a new iPhone case. It's black with a quotation from Tolkien on it:
Not all those who wander are lost
Most appripos for a mobile phone me thinks.
It's a hard case - my other one is soft. Not altogether sure I like the hard case. The volume buttons are hard to get to. But it was a very nice present anyway. And we'll see how it works out.
Last year our granddaughters' Shepherds Play was a big hit at the family gathering. This year we'll have a very mixed-faith group, so Mah*Sweetie wrote this for them which he calls the Not All Who Wander Are Lost skit.
(The kids enter single file from the middle room into the main room, walking slowly with Grand1 leading the line. The kids all have iPhones and they're focused intently on them as they walk, not paying attention to where they're walking. Grand1 arrives center stage and stops abruptly and all the kids bump into the kid ahead of them, in succession.)
Grand1: (looking around): "Where ARE we?"
Grand2: "It’s official… WE’RE LOST!"
Grand1: "I KNOW!! We've been wandering around out here for 8 days looking for a signal!"
Grand2: (looking at her phone): “At least our phones are still working!!”
Grand1: "Wait a minute!! How can our batteries still be working after 8 days?"
Grand3: "IT'S A MIRACLE!"
Grand1 (holding up her phone to show the others): "Wait, I have one bar!"
Grand3: "IT'S ANOTHER MIRACLE!"
Grand1: "OK, we need to go this way!" (she points to the kitchen)
Grand2: “LET’S DO IT!!” (the kids all follow Lorien off stage single file)
Grand3 (as she’s about to exit into the kitchen): "I think I smell milk and honey!"
I'm home. Not much to report about the scenery as we steamed -- er, dieseled -- through the farmlands of northern Missouri, southeast Iowa, and western Illinois. Well, should mention crossing first the Missouri, then the Mississippi. And there was a fairly impressive river in Iowa that I didn't know about. Should look that up.
So catching up on e-mail and blogs. About ready to turn in before I get back to work tomorrow.
Yes, Obama on Colbert was cute. Bill's summary of dieseling across the landscape reminded me of the scene in Dr. Zhivago where the train is coming through the woods, throwing the snow from the tracks, which are completely invisible.
Last night and tonight both we have had moderate fog, which is welcome. The meteorologists are saying that our current dry spell is due to a random confluence of various factors not related to global warming, which should give us more rain. Well, we will see. No matter how one cuts it, we need a lot more water storage to replace the Sierra Nevada snow pack. There's a primo location for a dam a ways up river from the current dam, but there are (as always) differences of opinion about it.
It's snowing in Deanland!!
ReplyDeleteThis is not to be missed!
ReplyDeletePresident Obama takes over the Colbert Report:
http://uproxx.com/tv/2014/12/watch-president-barack-obama-take-over-the-colbert-report-to-give-his-own-version-of-the-word/
Loved that bit.
DeleteLove that photo. I can almost hear the potential plop as the snow falls from the fence.
ReplyDeleteAh Susan, you might not hear it fall at all, if it fell onto more snow. More likely it would freeze solid and still be there mid-January. Ha!
DeleteGood Evening!
ReplyDeleteIt pretty much RAINED here all day!! Most of Vermont was getting snow, but here in the Champlain Valley we got rain, as the temperature teetered all day between 32F and 33F. A couple of times we saw it switch to snow, but only for a short while, then back to rain. I closed the Library at 8pm on the border of Underhill where it had just a short while before changed over to snow. I drove two miles west to get home in Jericho and it was still raining when I got here. After about 15 minutes it changed over to all snow, with INCREDIBLY HUGE flakes!!
Killington (>2000ft) has over a foot of snow, and Waitsfield in the middle of Vermont had 4" by 5:20pm, as it began snowing there at 11:15am. That's great as that's where my family will gather this weekend!!
Cold, miserable rain here. Listener, I envy your snow.
ReplyDeleteAs the song says:
DeleteSecond Tuesday in December
Icy rain is fallin' down
That songwriter hit the nail right on the nose. BRR!
Sis bought me a new iPhone case. It's black with a quotation from Tolkien on it:
ReplyDeleteNot all those who wander are lost
Most appripos for a mobile phone me thinks.
It's a hard case - my other one is soft. Not altogether sure I like the hard case. The volume buttons are hard to get to. But it was a very nice present anyway. And we'll see how it works out.
Last year our granddaughters' Shepherds Play was a big hit at the family gathering. This year we'll have a very mixed-faith group, so Mah*Sweetie wrote this for them which he calls the Not All Who Wander Are Lost skit.
Delete(The kids enter single file from the middle room into the main room, walking slowly with Grand1 leading the line. The kids all have iPhones and they're focused intently on them as they walk, not paying attention to where they're walking. Grand1 arrives center stage and stops abruptly and all the kids bump into the kid ahead of them, in succession.)
Grand1: (looking around): "Where ARE we?"
Grand2: "It’s official… WE’RE LOST!"
Grand1: "I KNOW!! We've been wandering around out here for 8 days looking for a signal!"
Grand2: (looking at her phone): “At least our phones are still working!!”
Grand1: "Wait a minute!! How can our batteries still be working after 8 days?"
Grand3: "IT'S A MIRACLE!"
Grand1 (holding up her phone to show the others): "Wait, I have one bar!"
Grand3: "IT'S ANOTHER MIRACLE!"
Grand1: "OK, we need to go this way!" (she points to the kitchen)
Grand2: “LET’S DO IT!!” (the kids all follow Lorien off stage single file)
Grand3 (as she’s about to exit into the kitchen): "I think I smell milk and honey!"
(The kids return to center stage to take a bow…)
I'm home. Not much to report about the scenery as we steamed -- er, dieseled -- through the farmlands of northern Missouri, southeast Iowa, and western Illinois. Well, should mention crossing first the Missouri, then the Mississippi. And there was a fairly impressive river in Iowa that I didn't know about. Should look that up.
ReplyDeleteSo catching up on e-mail and blogs. About ready to turn in before I get back to work tomorrow.
Yes, Obama on Colbert was cute. Bill's summary of dieseling across the landscape reminded me of the scene in Dr. Zhivago where the train is coming through the woods, throwing the snow from the tracks, which are completely invisible.
ReplyDeleteLast night and tonight both we have had moderate fog, which is welcome. The meteorologists are saying that our current dry spell is due to a random confluence of various factors not related to global warming, which should give us more rain. Well, we will see. No matter how one cuts it, we need a lot more water storage to replace the Sierra Nevada snow pack. There's a primo location for a dam a ways up river from the current dam, but there are (as always) differences of opinion about it.
--Alan