Thursday, January 8, 2015

The weather outside


My daughter is nothing if not prepared. She says the deep freeze in the city this week is more bone-chilling than anything she encounters in the frigid north. I have not been outside all week. My family's complaints on returning home have convinced me to pull my sleeves over my hands and relish the great indoors. I am not a recluse exactly. My family is here and friends come by. Into the room they come and go, talking of Michelangelo. (No, not really. But I am wearing the bottoms of my trousers rolled.)




11 comments:

  1. God. Same here. But probably not as bad. Okay. I'm sure it's not as bad.

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  2. Compared to the rest of Canada it is a island paradise. But I am cold and my feet are always wet from slugging from home to home. So, stay inside if you can. Do it for me. Tomorrow you stay inside for me! :-)

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  3. My, your daughter should be a model. Gorgeous. Yes, it is awful here too. I've been trying to get to the post office 3 miles away for 3 days. So far, I haven't made it. I'm hoping to venture out tomorrow. Lucky for me, I got my fill of being out on the big road trip, so five - I think its five - days house bound is ok for me for now. At least until the wind dies down. The trip to the mailbox feels like an Arctic expedition for me. But I will go out again, and to the store, and I will dare to eat a peach and dream of walking on the beach :)
    Stay warm!

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  4. I love that picture of her. Freezing here, too. Supposed to get in 10 mile run Saturday in prep for an upcoming half marathon. Not. Gonna. Happen.

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  5. It sounds brutal. It is why I don't miss New York. I am all about the weather now. I feel like I'd go mad if it were cold on top of everything else.

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  6. Hello, I have come to read your blog via Ms.Moon after reading your comment there, and thinking what a nice lady you sound like. I have read your posts back to 27 Dec and I was not wrong. You and your beautiful family are a delight to read about. I would read more but the dog needs his morning walk! Here in England ( 25 miles north of London) the temperature this morning is 8c, slightly above normal for the time of the year, but thankfully not raining as it was yesterday. I am so glad that we don't get the cold experienced in US. Your post about the way black cops are treated by their white colleagues horrified me, as does a lot of what goes on in your country. Your son is very wise to try and stay out of conflict. I regularly read a blog of a lady in this country who writes to a prisoner on death row ( can't remember which state) and the way they are treated is inhuman. I am looking forward to getting to know you a little more. Regards from England.

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  7. What a great picture! I love that parka, with that great swirl of fur. She could be a model. Seriously.

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  8. I am not a fan of the cold either. I am with you. When it's this cold outside I keep my butt inside the house as much as possible.

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