Thursday, December 18, 2008

Snow job

We awoke to yet another blanked out landscape, and it came down all day long. Cold, colder, and starting to blow, so it wasn't all that much of a wonderland to walk around in. The young ones manning the local hardware store, called Tweedy and Popp's, were in some kind of animated discussion when I brought my mom's watch in to see if they could force the back on it after the battery had been replaced at the drugstore, wher they couldn't get it back together. As the doorbell rang constantly and people piled into the place, the intrepid clerks managed to smoosh the watch back together while debating the origins and nature of various abominable snowman tropes. When they appealed to me for some kind of answer, I asked them if they did know the legendary creatures weren't real. That seemed to be beside the point, and they continued as I left.
Beloved son put knobby tires on his bike, and rode off into the freezing night to meet with other biking buddies. Hope they stayed off the big hills.

3 Comments:

Blogger Kathy Rogers said...

We get your cold weather leftovers down here. Threw everyone for a loop on Wednesday.

Reality is apparently beside the point.

2:24 PM  
Blogger robin andrea said...

I see that you are in for more of the wintry weather, if the national weather service is right. It's going to be blowing pretty hard up there. Stay warm and cozy.

"Reality is apparently beside the point." This is so true in Washington DC too.

3:10 PM  
Blogger isabelita said...

It seems unreal here lately, kathyr; try walking around on an ice rink, but an unpredictable one, with wet patches on top of ice, under snow...

Oh,you know, Robin, Obama may be smarter and saner than Shrub, but too conservative for my political tastes. I think I am a natural anarchist...

6:06 PM  

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