Icewind's Ramblings

After a slow start to winter and warmer than normal temperatures we finally received our first decent bit of snow yesterday.  It started with the clouds slowly rolling in over the city and warming up just a bit just before the light flakes started drifting onto my deck and yard. We had cooled down over the last week so there was time for the ground to cool down so what little came down would stick and not melt away again.  I guess for most people it sounds odd to say it warms up to snow but when things are super cold it does not snow so much and only after the temperatures moderate a bit does it start to come down. It was nice seeing again the white covering everything and then the sun broke through this morning bringing with it crispness in the light and shadows.  The day waned with a beautiful sunset and the orange alpenglow over the mountains slowly fading into the dusk then darkness. I wanted to continue to fill you in on the master bathroom remodel.  Ye...

I was standing in line at the bank yesterday. As if there isn’t enough anxiety about banks these days, the branch where I go has a giant plasma screen TV behind the tellers so you can watch while you’re standing in line. Great. They always have it on CNN.  I’m worried about my account because of a mistake they made earlier and now I get to watch another war and more people with blood on their faces in Texas at Ft. Hood from an Army Major who is a coward killing soldiers and civilians as I wait to speak with a representative. Please pump all the fear and loathing you can into an otherwise normal trip to the bank, Wells Fargo! A shipment of Viagra was high jacked today I saw it on the news.  Police have put out an All-Points bulletin: Be on the lookout for two hardened criminals! They will face a stiff sentence when convicted and they'll surely be sent to a Penal Institution. Have you realized that in about 30 years, we'll have thousands of OLD LADIES running aro...

It’s fun going to work on the first workday snowfall of the year. Every year there are those who have sped their way back and forth to work or home during those long summer days without a care in the world . . . there’s plenty of light out and animals are easy enough to see . . . but then that transition time comes when we lose between 5 to 6 minutes a day and that darkness grows across this northland. These first days of the winter driving season brings about this little game that the Glenn and Seward Highway commuters play on almost any snow day. I like to call it “Count the Cars in the Ditch”. Its fun . . . it's free . . . it's mean . . . isn’t it great! All those who blast by you giving you the finger . . . you can just give them that big smile as you slowly make your way by. Winter driving advice . . . the skinny pedal on the right is not the brake. The ones flipped onto their roofs, tires straight up like Roadkill, fetch extra points. This...