Daily Archives: December 15, 2008

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BLAM!

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-10  bar rises 30.67  0mph SW  windchill -10   Samhain

Waning Gibbous Moon of Long Nights

Oh, boy.  Drivin’ down the highway, heading home after a couple of hours of transcendence with the icons at the Russian museum and BLAM!   Something happened to my right front tire/wheel/axel and the tire blew, the wheel dug in to the third lane in which I was driving.  It was clunky going but I drove to the right shoulder, whipped out the cell phone and began making calls.  Now I’m home.

No Woollys for me tonight.  Anything that doesn’t end in seriously bodily injury is a good event, so I’m happy.

Still, the night was about as cold as you can expect for December.   The wind was fierce.  Still, I got a tow guy with ease, he brought me to Carlson Toyota where the little red car gets its work done and it’s sitting in a dock at the bay.

Upstairs now for some of that portugese kale/potato/chorizo soup I made yesterday.  Yumm.

Art and Culture, Weather +Climate

Icons and Prints

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Snow.  Blowing snow.  Blowing snow onto the lawn.   Snow blowing.  Into my face at -12.  Whoa. That’s a wake-me-up.

I’m alert and ready for the day.

The icy stuff we got yesterday during the day came down before the snow.  Now it’s ice beneath the snow.  Slip slidin’ away.

After this a long lecture of prints in the MIA collection, then icons from the frozen steppes of mother Russia.  Seems right.

Art and Culture, Friends, Weather +Climate, Woolly Mammoths

A Cold One, Please

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-8  bar steep rise 30.33  0mph  S  windchill  -10   Samhain

Waning Gibbous Moon of Long Nights          Day  8hr  45mn

A cold one today.  This week will have the same kind of weather we usually get in late January.  Just fine with me.

A very busy day today with the Joan Herried Lecture at the MIA, then lunch at Butter and a tour of the Transcendental Icons exhibit at the Russian Museum.   This evening it’s the Woollys at chez Schmidt.

Realized I’ve been setting myself up to get tired today.  Thinking, oh, man.  Long day.  Geez, I may have to cancel something on Tuesday night. Well, I don’t have to think that way and I’m going to stop right now.

I’m going to wait just a bit to get at the snow on the driveway.