Somehow it seems perfectly
normal to wade through knee deep snow to the car. When I
looked out the window this morning to see who was
pounding on my back door and wanting me to move the car
while it was still snowing my first reaction was "Gee, it
doesn't look like that much." It's light and
fluffy and not hard to shovel even if it is knee deep. Of
course, once I got the car out of the parking lot there
was no place to put it. The street, already narrowed and
narrowed again with the accumulated snow banks of each
storm, was lined with cars bumper to bumper. Not a single
space remained open. Slightly weird and surreal.
The surreal TV at Perfecto's, stop
one on my "drive around until they clear the parking lot"
tour, features President Bush talking about the threat to
peace posed by a "weekend United Nations". There was
something about a soldier's "treem" too. Speech to text
seems to be imperfect. Once Bush's press conference is
over and the high points are being replayed, the
"weekend" UN changes to a "weakened" UN on the third or
fourth repeat.
The "drive around until they clear
the parking lot" tour continues on to Petco for cat food
and Target for a few odds and ends I've been meaning to
buy. Target has the advantage of being directly across
the highway from Petco - complete with a traffic light.
There's a 30% off sale on flannel sheets, but of course
the only queen size ones they have are dark red with bear
claw prints. Bear claws? I think that might give me
nightmares. The next aisle is labeled "Chat Room
Bedding". Chat room bedding? What kind of bedding do you
need in cyberspace? Judging by the merchandise on
display, you need hot pink overstuffed pillows and
chartreuse comforters. But how do you digitize them? And
why? And I thought "weekend UN" was surreal.
At least the blizzard brought
warmer weather. I was getting a little tired of that old
-4 to 0 degrees range. How cold has it been? Well, Nancy
and I went to the Mystic Aquarium on Sunday and it was
too cold for the penguins to be on display!
(To be fair, they're temperate zone penguins from South
Africa, cold hardy to about 25 degrees F.) Meanwhile, No
Prob Bob reports that it is a cool 65 degrees in Kuwait
today. Cool by Kuwait standards.
