No snow today
We do what we can to be prepared for the next season. The tires have been swapped. That odd bench has been moved out of the path of any tractor coming in to blow the lane free. I have found the shovels. And I went to bed at a reasonable hour. On the newest broadcast the question had been reached that we could have children at home tomorrow. Not us but others. And then, overnight, it rained. We’re back to exactly the same state we were in the last month gray and soggy. It has been a very long autumn and even though the calendar shows that we still have a month to run before winter starting we are waiting. As you do when you’re living this part of the world. Laying on the beach would be a silly thing to do right now. At least the lawn will not need to be mown for another few months. Something to do with cold because we still have lots of rain. I watched the weather from elsewhere on the continent and they’re not getting nearly as clement as ours. When I hear of waist deep snow in the Rockies I cannot imagine what that must be like. We haven’t had waist deep snow since I was a small child. I’ve mentioned before that sea ice is also just a memory. Not that long ago that we would have already been preparing for the seals. Again not us but people around here. Now it’s just wet walking. Does it matter in the long run? Not too much. The tires will still run on a wet roads. Even if there is no accumulated precipitation. It could be worse. We could have flash flooding well that too is unlikely since we have no hills or valleys. I am, proudly, a flatlander. Eventually I should find some photographs from the good old days to show people what it was like back when winter was something to be reckoned with rather than something to be remembered. I am all for climate change but the good old days seem like such fun. Just yesterday I saw a video of someone throwing a snowball. In Ireland. I did not even know that winter was a thing there but I guess I was wrong.
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