I feel so left out with all the great weather talk going down over in TN. So I check the friendly weather site, and horror! Do you see the little pocket over northern central Colorado? That's me. Weatherless.

I'm in the white in the NW of Oregon. I'm verrrrry close to the pink, though. C'mon, STORM!!!! I'm waiting! I've got food, heating oil, books and zero desire to go Christmas shopping!

It's still snowing here in Olympia - looks like I get another Snow Day tomorrow!!!!

I envy you, Sally. The parking lot at work today looked like a hockey rink and my car did a nerve-racking fishtail when I hit the ice. Didn't wipe out walking through the parking lot though, so that's a plus.

And don't even get me started on you elementary education folks, Montambo! My wife has been off for the last two days and has been indulging in sleeping late, watching tv, and reading D.H. Lawrence. I'm also suspicious that lots of cocoa drinking and derisive cackling at my non-educational field ass has been afoot, but I can't verify that.;)

Ooooo D.H. Lawrence!
I'd like to read Lady Chatterley's Lover over break.

It's true, Tad. Today was the first of my TWENTY days off (including weekends)!!!!!!

Sally: Hopefully you get to! She read that over the Summer and is now working through "The Rainbow".

Montambo: That's awesome, enjoy! Of course you know that we will be expecting many book reports and avatars of baked goodies, right?

Oh I went on the most wonderful DH Lawrence binge when in college. *sigh* I'm so glad she's reading The Rainbow before Women in Love, since it is about those Women's parents.

More snow in Olympia right now? *cries* Not a thing in Seattle, not a bloody darn thing.

I liked Women in Love but I was sad that it was more about Men at Work than Women in Love.

You got it, Tadpole!

Are you saying that it involved Australians eating vegamite sandwiches???
:)

Um, Sally? Why does your link go to Marquez and not Lawrence??? heh.

I don't know! I just put brackets around book titles like this Titlely Title and it makes the link for me. Guess I'll take that one off. I just noticed that the Chatterley one went to a graphic novel version, too. :(

C'mon Goodreads! Is it that hard to make me look cool?

Hahaha! Why would "titely title" go to Sherlock Holmes?

Wait, so supposedly all you have to do is put parenthesis around the title?

Obviously that's a supposed!

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever:


Just testing.

Edit: Yeah, I rule!

You have to type book: title inside the brackets. [ :] Its hard to do without making a link, but ___

Ok, that is getting weird. Does it just pick anything to put in there? WTF? book: title in brackets.

Well that Marquez book comes up first when you do a GR search for Women In Love. Then comes Sons and Lovers. I think WIL is something like 6th on the list, and that's pretty good for the GR book search which is completely useless.

[http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9784.Women_in_Love]

testing testing

Edit: Hot diggety dog!

It really is.

So when I woke up this morning there was this awesome ice-fog clinging to everything. Now that the fog has lifted the branches of all the trees are all silvery.

we are supposedly getting a wicked snowstorm today --up to 10 inches--but it hasn't materialized yet. Coming from the west--

... the branches of all the trees are all silvery.

That sounds nice. Enjoy!

it's here! It's beautiful!!
the snow is raining down...

51 Degrees...rain and fog...a full 50, 55 degree shift over the course of a week or so...

Yeah, don't you love the weirdness of weather in the Midwest, RA? Just a few days ago it was icy and cold as hell here. Right now it's around 60 degrees, humid, and windy with rain off and on. There are even tornado watches in part of the state. Um...Mr. Spring...I think you need to get back in line.

Don't worry. Mr. Winter will blow his way back in line soon enough. It was weirdly warm here yesterday, too. Most of the white stuff here melted away and is headed down river toward you, Tadpole.

It is above 40 degrees here, it's rainy, and everything is slowly melting. So now, flat roofs are getting super heavy with all the snow and rain, and there have been some collapses. Part of one of the high schools had the roof collapse over the library, and books got water damaged. NOOOOOO!!!
And now we're on flood watch, and citizens are asked to clear the gutters and drainage around their homes.
The upside is, I can see my car again!

we lost all our snow....just rain & drizzle & dark now.

Y'all can have the snow - I'm done with it.

80 degrees today, the beach was nice.

Cold...very, very cold... 12 degrees...and not even snow, only ice everywhere...Brrrrr...

57 degrees here and it's 7pm. Not my idea of winter weather!

It's in the 40s here, and I am free at last! The snow has melted, and I can get out of the alley.

I drove my car to Tacoma today to catch a movie, and then I drove, DROVE, I tell you!, to the grocery store!
Whoopie!!!

Today it is supposed to be about 68 and sunny...perfect motorcycle riding weather. However, we do pay for it in the summer...115 gets a little warm. :)

uuhh...no thanks. summer weather like that would be unbearable.

The only "perfect" place I've found (weather-wise) is halfway up the mountain on Maui where it's always the same temp. You can just leave the windows open all the time, with no need for heat or AC.

I had my AC on all weekend.

Yeah, it is pretty brutal. But then again, we don't have to shovel heat or chip away anything from the drive way.

I'm so not complaining. I HATE being cold.

Rainy and grey!!!!!!gray!!!!!!!gris!!!

Rainy is good, Sarah.

Good for making me want to kill myself, you mean!

Good compared to snow and ice, I mean, Sarah. I'm not trapped at home anymore! I can walk normally without slipping on ice!

Yeah, I guess if you still felt like living, you'd care about those things.

;)

I'd worry more, but you still have enough life in you to say "grey" in three different ways, Sarah. Grigio.

Grau. Grå. Grár.

Rain, pour, drizzle...