4 posts tagged “ice”

Woke up this morning to a beautiful blue sky and the sound of thawing ice dripping coming from the gutters.  The ice in the driveway (all 6 inches of it) was turning into mush.  Mr. Weather Dude was forecasting a balmy day in Northeast Iowa! 

The temperature got up to 41 degrees and after days of minus 30, it felt like summer.  No winter coat for me, just my fleece jacket.  No Thinsulate gloves...I drove the car bare-handed.  I opened all the windows just enough to let a little fresh air in and get rid of that stale winter air.  It was a glorious day!t

I've gotten a little sick of hearing the crunch of snow and ice under my feet and navigating through icy parking lots with a shopping cart.  (Try it sometime...it isn't easy.)  I'm already being seduced by the flower and seed catalogs and their promise of sunflowers and herb gardens.  This is the teaser, the warm few days that make us think about spring and warm dirt under our feet.  I've even begun planning the World's Biggest Vegetable Garden.

But it's only February 1st and there can still be plenty of winter to come. Husband said today that the worst snowstorm in Iowa that he can remember happened in mid-April.  I'm trying not to worry about that.  I just want to think about Spring.

It's 5:00 a.m. and it's MINUS 21 degrees.  That's not the wind chill....that's the actual temperature.  The wind chill is MINUS 50 degrees!  The weather guy on tv says you'll get frostbite on unexposed skin in 5 minutes. 

I'm afraid to go outside this morning to drive to work.  At last notice, our schools were only on  two hour delay.  They really ought to close because we have so many kids who don't have bus service and it's just too cold to walk.

(must keep repeating...."I love Iowa"...."I love Iowa"..............)

A little frigid Iowa humor (funny but not so far from the truth) -  

You know it's cold when - 

you have to chisel the dog off a lamp-post

your shadow freezes to the sidewalk

you have to break the smoke off your chimney

you have to open the fridge to heat the house 

your false teeth chatter, and they are still in the glass

the fire department advises you to set your house on fire

the snowman begs you to take him inside at night

 

Mark was out there yesterday ...shoveling through 3 inches of ice in our driveway.  First I laughed, then I thought of the following

The Myth of Sysiphus - The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor. 

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