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Status Report
Electricity: Yes
Running water: No
Snow: 12″ and still falling
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The private road from my place to the main road (which is shared with 11 other properties up the hill) is damned treacherous. It’s steep, and no one has a snow plow, and it’s completely shaded by trees. We’re not supposed to get above freezing before Christmas, so it’s going to be an ice rink for at least another week. If I take a trip out – and I probably will – I’ll most likely have to park the car at the base, and walk home.
It’s true that there’s nothing I need from the outside world. But I am going crazy. I haven’t left the house since Monday. Also, Netflix has sent my Angel season 3 DVDs, which have been waiting for me at the post office since Wednesday.
Is it crazy to risk having to park the car and walk 1.5 miles home through the snow for Angel episodes on DVD? Yes. But that doesn’t mean I won’t do it.
My two favorite sights: I can see the first from my desk. This is my plastic Adirondack chair. Go on, have a seat!
This is a collection of trash cans filled with mulch from the bark-and-topsoil distributor down the road. The original plan was to spend the weekend mulching stuff. That plan has been scrapped.
Is it just my cabin-fevered imagination, or do they look like muffins?
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they look like muffins. I would walk to the post office for Angel, too. It’s good for you.
Comment by ayla —
December 18, 2008 @ 1:17 pm
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Yes, muffins. I was thinking when I saw your chair the other day that it cries out to be occupied by a snowperson!
Can you acquire cable chains while you’re in town so you can navigate the drive with a trunk full of bottled water? Leaving your car at the foot of the drive is just asking for people to slide into it.
Are there any puppies you can go visit? With your camera? Are you melting snow/ice for water?
Comment by auntiemichal —
December 18, 2008 @ 1:22 pm
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I’d walk to the Post Office for Angel too but that’s without any actual experience walking in a foot of snow.
Love the chair. Think I’ll pass on lounging on it.
LOL at auntiemichal. Cold puppies!
Comment by Carrie K —
December 18, 2008 @ 1:52 pm
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I think they look like souffles in nice little collars.
Glad I got back out of town when I did, though I have done the trip out just to get out of the house snow walk myself.
Comment by KarenJoSeattle —
December 18, 2008 @ 3:24 pm
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Heh. Those are muffin tops. (I can’t believe no one has already said this.)
Comment by kmkat —
December 18, 2008 @ 3:39 pm
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I think they look like those push-up pops you got back in the day at the pool, and one of ‘em was flavored like the Bayer baby aspirin.
Wow, what scenery! I hope your water comes back on soon.
Comment by PlazaJen —
December 18, 2008 @ 4:05 pm
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Have you been to http://www.hulu.com? I just discovered it and they have all sorts of TV shows and movies you can watch for free. Well, I guess by ‘all sorts’ I mean ‘limited selection’, but it’s good when you don’t have any cable like me.
I just got done watching the ‘Legend of the Seeker’ (I think that’s what it’s called) series and it was a pretty good, if a little cheesy.
Comment by Abby —
December 18, 2008 @ 4:34 pm
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I think they looks like cupcakes – with extra icing. After all – a cupcake is truly just a transport system for the icing, right?
Comment by Ansley —
December 18, 2008 @ 4:39 pm
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That makes me think “cross-country skis”! If I was a person who had in the past used snow shoes (and who knew what the past-tense of “snow-shoe” was, so they could phrase their comment less awkwardly), then I would do that. But I don’t know how.
But, srsly, I’d be stoked to have a little cross country ski to get to the house. Might have something to do with having lived in CA for 15 years.
Comment by lala —
December 19, 2008 @ 12:35 am
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It’s only when people start to look like muffins that you should be worried.
Comment by Maggie —
December 19, 2008 @ 2:52 am
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the snow is beautiful and I wish I could attach a picture of what my husband brought me from the snow.
I am still lol
Comment by Debi —
December 19, 2008 @ 7:05 am
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I see ice cream cones.
Hey, at least I didn’t say “Snow Cones”! Try the veal.
Comment by Jennifer —
December 19, 2008 @ 8:53 am
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I second the ice cream cone reference. We don’t have as much snow in Ohio, but we do have trees dipped in glass after last night’s “wintry mix”.
Comment by Jeanne B. —
December 19, 2008 @ 2:53 pm
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