You’ll no doubt be happy to hear that, with this last little burst of snow, Syracuse has now taken the lead in the Golden Snowball race with 95.2″ for the season so far – about half an inch ahead of Buffalo. Now that Lake Erie is frozen solid (that’s not unusual, but a rather astonishing 90% of the Great Lakes is frozen this year – including almost a third of Lake Ontario, which tends to be the least frozen of them, ‘cuz it’s so deep relative to its surface area(, we shouldn’t get much competition from them. Sadly, it appears that Erie PA has an insurmountable lead of almost 15″ on us. At least, I hope it’s insurmountable, ‘cuz I’m tired of winter. Unfortunately we get, on average, another 34″ of snow before the end of the season so odds are it aint over yet.
This morning, however, it’s all the way up to 27 degrees above zero, on the way to a high of…. Well, only 29. But that should feel pretty good. And we’re only supposed to get a few snow fluffies today (of course they lied to us yesterday, so you can’t count on it). I’m gonna have to get out there and clean up the driveway while it’s warm out. It’s gotten a bit narrow, and I’ll probably need to take the plow off so I can use the bucket to move the snow around – the pile at the end of the driveway is way higher than the car now, so it’s kinda hard to see what’s coming.
After today they say things will cool off again – and then get warm! They predict a high of 47 for next Friday! Of course, they tend to change their minds on that stuff. Today, 47. Tomorrow, 43, Monday 39 and by next Wednesday it’ll be a high of 12 and 15″ of snow. So we’ll see what really happens.
Still, we’re more than half way through February now, so in a couple of weeks it’ll be March, and if I see my shadow on March 2nd, it means there’ll only be six more weeks of winter.
We watched the first three (or maybe even four) episodes of the second “season” of House of Cards last night. I won’t spoil it for you, but there was a bit of a shocker right there in episode 1 (or 14, depending on how you’re counting). Not sure how long we can make this last, so I hope Orange is the New Black comes out soon.
Oh well, time for some more coffee, and then maybe a nap.
Oofta! That’s a boatload of snow.
Just watched USA beat Russia in hockey. A very exciting game and I don’t really understand the nuances of the game. :banana:
Pretty close to our average – about 5″ above. The folks just north of us on the Tug Hill scoff at us – they’ve had about 225″ so far.
I like hockey. It looks really good in HD.
No too many rules to learn, really. Just remember you can’t cross the blue line into your offensive zone before the puck does or it’s offside. And you can’t just whack the puck all the way from your defensive zone down to the other end or it’s icing (unless you’re a man down trying to kill a penalty, in which case it’s OK).
You’re also supposed to refrain from whacking people in the head with your stick, and if you get in a fight the first thing you do is pull the other guy’s jersey over his head so he can’t fight back.
I highly recommend the movie “Slap Shot” with Paul Newman for learning all about hockey. It’s very educational.
In Seattle for a few days. Glad to be back after 10 years.