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I Miss the Snow

January 27th, 2011 . by Cary

Living here in the Valley of the Sun, having grown up in other parts of the United States (where they have four seasons instead of two), there are times when I miss weather related things. For instance, the turning of the leaves in the fall. Around here, even the “deciduous” trees hang on to their leaves most of the year. My two Chinese Elms, in the back yard, do lose their leaves, but if I happen to be doing something else at the time (like, for instance, blinking), I miss the whole changecolordrop series.

I miss waking up to the sound of silence that accompanies a heavy overnight snowfall. The whole world is blanketed in a muffling cover of white, and the only sound is of the furnace kicking on, or, in rougher times, the sound of someone slamming the woodstove shut after throwing another log on the fire.

( side memory – early eighties, Flagstaff, winter, the small cabin the family was renting at the time, home on a winter weekend pass from Pendleton, dressed for cold weather, standing around the ‘stove, lighting the first cigarette of the day off the top of the stove, the smell of pine sap burning and cigarette smoke mingling in the cold air not two feet away from the source of the “heat” …)

Back to missing the snow – this morning, here in my corner of the Valley, it is a “brisk” 46 degrees outside. The news tells me that the East Coast is, again, being slammed by more Global Warming. I miss the thought of snow, sure – but I don’t miss the logistics – keeping the vehicle operational through a dipstick heater, starting the vehicle five minutes before needing to leave so it gets used to working in the cold and so you have time to scrape the night’s frozen remnants off your windshield, dealing with drivers who don’t know how to drive in the snow (hint: having a four wheel drive vehicle does NOT give you immunity from the laws of physics or the right of way), and, of course, the whole shoveling part. There were days when I just said the heck with it and drove the snowmobile to work.

But I sure miss the thought of having snow right outside the door.

Chat ya later…

cary

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Just A Couple of Things…

January 25th, 2010 . by Cary

First – empirical proof that Global Warming is not happening – Hell has, in fact, frozen over. Witness the fact that the Saints are in the Super Bowl.

Second, this little bit of wit passing about the interwebs:

Dear God,
Last year you took my favorite entertainer (Michael Jackson), my favorite actor (Patrick Swayze), and my favorite pin-up girl (Farrah).
Just to let you know, some of my favorite politicians are Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid.

Updated 2/9/10: Thank you, Lord, for not making me type in K-nn-dy and M-rth- on my laptop – I don’t think it would have survived the pounding.

Chat ya later…

cary

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Gotta Love Mondays

November 24th, 2008 . by Cary

I mean, I have so much rolling around in my head – I doubt all of it will get written.

Saturday evening, I got my first cab at about 1645 hours. When I went out to check it and get it ready to go, I had to put air in the left front tire – and I wasn’t sure it would stay there. Once I got on the road, I could hear the “tik-tik-tik” of something metallic in the tire, so I pulled into a parking lot and looked it over – sure enough, a nail in the tread. I took that one back, and got a second cab by 1715 hours. First call was to a bar on 83rd Ave. and Indian School. A lady (who apparently is an early-evening drinker) needed a ride home. When she tried to get into the back seat, she couldn’t. I mean she just could NOT get her body to work right so she could climb into the back seat. She asked if she could sit in front, and I told her yes. I went around, opened the front door, cleared my stuff off the seat, and held the door for her. Now, the cab company policy is that the driver is not to touch the passenger. That means that the passenger is supposed to be able to get themselves in and out of the cab on their own. If they need help due to a medical condition, then the passenger is supposed to contact a non-emergency medical transport company. At any rate – this lady was having a hard time getting into the front seat, also. Don’t get me wrong – she could walk under her own power – she just couldn’t climb onto the seat. At one point, I noticed that the exertions had caused her to urinate in her jeans. Yes, she was working that hard to climb into the cab.

Did I mention that she is a little person? A dwarf – midget – whatever they call themselves.

She finally got herself situated kind of oddly – so that her legs were in the area of the floorboards, and her upper body was on the seat – and she was pretty much laying, face down, on the front seat of the car after fifteen minutes of attempting to get in. She gave me the address, and we were off. Once we arrived at her house (about seven blocks from the bar) it took her another five minutes to get back OUT of the car. She was, however, very gracious, and tipped nicely (the fare was $5.00 and she added two). I managed to keep a straight face until I was at least a block away, and then I just couldn’t help but laugh until the next call came in…

Maggie Thornton cross-posted a piece on global warming on her own Notebook and on Reject the U.N. regarding Global Warming. You’ve all heard how 2500 distinguished scientists have backed the warming models used in the dire predictions – have you heard that 500 of them have since retracted their support? Or that more than 31,000 scientists have signed a petition stating that all the hot air about Anthropogenic Global Warming is just that – a bunch of hot air? I wonder why the MSM hasn’t published any articles about the group that is fifteen times larger…

From Wild Phil comes news that there is a new wine designed especially for seniors. From his e-mail:

California vintners in the Napa Valley area, which primarily produce Pinot Blanc, Pinot Noir and Pinot Grigio wines, have developed a new hybrid grape that acts as an anti-diuretic.
It is expected to reduce the number of trips older people have to make to the bathroom during the night.

The new wine will be marketed as


PINO MORE.

I HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE!

Perhaps they can start serving it at 83rd and Indian School first…

cary

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