Due to spousal complaints, I had to remove yesterday’s post showing off the hair the dogs leave around their crates. The wife objected and said it’s not right to put pictures of the messes in the house online, even if there’s a nice clean ‘after’ picture to go along with it. She says it’s too much like airing our dirty laundry. I don’t really see it. I just figured it was a good testament to the power of our Dyson.
Censorship! I’m being repressed!
🙂
You know the humidity is low when…
you keep getting static electric shocks from vacuuming.
The low humidity is nice, but man, I’m getting shocks from everything I touch. Sometimes I feel like I’m getting ECT treatments.
Holiday spirit
Been here 7 years now, and each year I’m finding it harder and harder to get into a holiday kind of mood. It just never feels like Christmas.
It’s the weather. It’s just not wintry enough for me to get into the right mood for the holidays. Having been born and raised in Edmonton, winter and the accompanying cold and snow are second nature to me. Winter, for me, kicks off the holidays. It means watching the first snowfall, and venturing out into the dark quiet that follows where all the noises seem muffled. It meant Bill Matheson on ITV talking about that “dreaded of all meteorological phenomena, the Siberian High” and the weather in Baker Lake. It was donning layers of warm clothes, filling a backpack with sandwiches, a thermos full of hot chocolate and heading off for a hike through the river valley. It also meant walking to school in skin-numbing -35°C cold on more than a few occasions, but you take the good with the bad.
Now a few flakes falling to the ground is a huge news event and grounds for shutting everything down. A cold day might reach 5°C and just below freezing at night. Is it any wonder I can’t get into the holiday mood when I’m still walking around in shorts?
Don’t get me wrong, I love the mild winters as much as anyone from colder climates would. I love torturing my friends with pictures of me walking on the beach in shorts and a t-shirt on New Year’s Day while they’re freezing their butts back home. Aside from the summers, which are a little toasty for my liking, the weather here is great. It just doesn’t trigger that holiday feeling in me.
The end of another storm season
Today is the last day of the 2006 hurricane season, and it has thankfully been a good deal calmer than last year. Out of a forecast of 12-15 named storms, this year we ended up with 9 named storms (4 tropical storms and 5 hurricanes).
I’m glad this year was a bit of a non-event storm wise. It was a good break from last year’s hectic season. Hopefully next year will be more of the same. 6 months to relax a bit before the 2007 season starts up.
It’s snowing!
Imagine my shock and surprise when the wife told me it was snowing outside. It’s actually coming down pretty good out there too (for around here anyway). There’s a low pressure system just off the coast sucking cold air in, which is apparently cold enough at higher elevations to turn the rain into snow!
Cool. Too bad it’s not cold enough for it to stick around.
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