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flemmings ([personal profile] flemmings) wrote2016-01-10 03:11 pm

Be Prepared

To wake, alive in this world
What happiness!
Winter rain

Which is exactly the extent of today. I could be more serene about the rain if I hadn't bicycled in it with a snow shovel lashed to the carrier which I dropped off at work, because the snow shovel I gifted them with a few years back got left in a snow bank last winter and rusted away in the spring. (Well, maybe. My own shovel exhibits similar symptoms, so maybe it's just an easy-rust shovel.) Is supposed to snow all week and I do not trust the university to clear their sidewalks, to say nothing of our steps, in time/ at all.

Did have brunch at Butler's to console me, while no longer waterproof coat dried on a radiator, and got finally a warm long-sleeve thermal top from Honest Ed's, whose supposed 2XL hugs my curves. And now the wind is up, heralding the snow-bearing cold front, and I'm going back to my cocoon of quilts and Singaporean detective novel.

(Bedraggled wet raccoon walked right past my front steps as I was leaving, bold as brass and quite as tarnished. Cold may put those critters to sleep; alas that it won't do it permanently.)
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[personal profile] incandescens 2016-01-11 01:38 am (UTC)(link)
Do stay dry and warm!

Incidentally, there is a belated birthday present heading your way via amazon which I hope will amuse you.

[identity profile] flemmings.livejournal.com 2016-01-11 01:57 am (UTC)(link)
Very warm and very dry, the rain having stopped and the snow having been postponed to Tuesday.

I shall look forward to it, though I'm still engrossed by your Christmas present.