Water, water, everywhere...
Nov. 25th, 2008 11:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
felis_lupusand fortunately it's allll liquid.
In the spirit of Thanksgiving, I would like to offer my sincere thanks to whatever blood sacrifice or other offering was made to whatever being it is that controls the weather this week. I don't even want to think about how much snow we would have gotten out of this storm (which is still going... pouring down rain, still). I don't have to; the news reports that the mountains have over a foot, and it's still coming down. Coastal areas are flooding. I drove across several inches-deep pools and rivers of water on the way home from fencing tonight. There may have even been some hail thrown in every now and then for good measure.
I am thankful for 51 degree temperatures at 11:00 PM in late November, during a precipitation-based weather event.
I am thankful for the ground being above 34 degrees, so said precipitation stays liquid, and not glassy frozen horribleness.
I am thankful for good tires on my car.
I am thankful for a basement that does not leak.
I am thankful that we are not one of the 35,000 still without power, and that ours came back on after only an hour and a half of darkness.
Now to see if the turkey has thawed sufficiently to get it into the brine... we shall see. Turkey may have a bath to encourage fewer ice crystals...
In the spirit of Thanksgiving, I would like to offer my sincere thanks to whatever blood sacrifice or other offering was made to whatever being it is that controls the weather this week. I don't even want to think about how much snow we would have gotten out of this storm (which is still going... pouring down rain, still). I don't have to; the news reports that the mountains have over a foot, and it's still coming down. Coastal areas are flooding. I drove across several inches-deep pools and rivers of water on the way home from fencing tonight. There may have even been some hail thrown in every now and then for good measure.
I am thankful for 51 degree temperatures at 11:00 PM in late November, during a precipitation-based weather event.
I am thankful for the ground being above 34 degrees, so said precipitation stays liquid, and not glassy frozen horribleness.
I am thankful for good tires on my car.
I am thankful for a basement that does not leak.
I am thankful that we are not one of the 35,000 still without power, and that ours came back on after only an hour and a half of darkness.
Now to see if the turkey has thawed sufficiently to get it into the brine... we shall see. Turkey may have a bath to encourage fewer ice crystals...
