Happy Equinox ...

... Alban Eilir, Eostar, Eostre, Feast of Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Festival of Trees, Lady Day, NawRuz, No Ruz, Ostara, Ostra, Rites of Spring, or the Vernal Equinox. Thanks to Religious Tolerance.org for the list.

Stuff and Nonsense ...

Daylight:

Length of day: 12:11
Hours of dark: 8ish (twilight is figured differently on this site)
Sunrise: 6:36 am
Sunset: 6:47 pm
Start of twilight: 4:36 am
End of twilight: 8:47 pm

Current weather: Low drifting snow. -3°C (26°F), -10°C (14°F) with windchill, wind SE 26 km/h (16 mph) gusting to 35 (22).

Forecast:

Today.. Cloudy with sunny periods. 30% chance of flurries early this afternoon. Wind SE 20 km/h. High -1°C.
Tonight.. Cloudy. 60% chance of flurries overnight. Wind SE 20 km/h. Low -7°C.
Tuesday.. Cloudy with sunny periods. 60% chance of flurries in the morning. Wind SE 30 km/h Low -7°C. High -1°C.
Wednesday.. Sunny. Low -8°C. High -3°C.
Thursday.. Sunny. Low -6°C. High 1°C.
Friday.. A mix of sun and cloud. Low -4°C. High 5°C.
Normals for the period.. Low -10°C. High 2°C.

Jiggety Jig...

Home again. Home again. Nina picked me up from the airport last night. It snowed while I was gone. We stopped to pick up a few things at the grocery store on the way home and got stuck a couple of times in the parking lot. She ended up parked facing the wrong way in the parking spot she'd shovelled out for herself in front of the house. She couldn't back into it without getting stuck. The fellow from Kitty City is going to bring the cats home for me.


Poor l'il Epona's kinda buried ... so is my picnic table.


So today I stay inside and do laundry. Maybe I'll get to digging Epona out and shovelling the back tomorrow.

Holidaying ...

I'm still on holidays.
I got to see Shadow, yay! He drove three hours to Palm Desert to visit, bless 'is heart.
Yesterday, Mom, Dad and I moved from Palm Desert to Ramona, CA. It's very different here ... high desert, and very pretty.

Happy HNT ...

I'm not generally a Half-Nekkid Thursday participant, but since it's today and I just happen to have a cheesy picture of a wee bit of decorated flesh, Happy HNT!



Sweet Gauge did it when I was in San Francisco this summer. I'm very happy with it! I went to see him to talk about a cover-up of a bit of faded, blurry vineyness I'd been putting off having touched up and he came up with this, this, this ... wonderfulness! Did I mention that I'm very happy with it? Thanks, Gauge ... and thanks Vince for introducing me to him. *smooches*

Living in a snow globe ...

I can almost breathe through my nose today, and I've been living in a snow globe for the past 24 hours or so. Pretty! The snow, not the nose.
Here's what's out the front door today.


See those lumps on the front step? This is how they looked last summer.


Here's Hugh talking to his Dad, one of the coach/referees. One of his team mates is showing off the shoot and fall technique ... they pretty much have it down pat. The rest of them are trying to locate the puck, their coaches, their parents, each other, etc.


Hugh's Dad, Coach and Referee, talks to a coupla kids from the other team. They don't care if he's their coach or not. Coaches are coooooool!