It's Snowing!

[fauxklore]

The weather forecasters have failed me. Specifically, weather.com earlier today was predicting a few snow showers between about midnight and 3 a.m., but when I finally dragged myself out of the house to the store (mostly to get the Sunday Post, but I also bought a few groceries and picked up Chinese food for supper) at about 5 p.m., it was already snowing. Not particularly heavily and nothing was really sticking on the road, but it's still weather to sit by the (non-existent) fireplace, with a (non-existent) cat on my lap, drinking Irish coffee (which requires non-existent Irish whiskey). Clearly my existence is not designed for snow.

I like snow when it is picturesque rural snow. Even here in suburbia, it too quickly turns to a brown slushy mess that just makes everything nasty and slippery. I really do need to arrange my life so I can spend the northern hemisphere winter in Punta del Este, Uruguay.

Comments

[mortuus.livejournal.com]

Snow! Yay! I just read this and thought, "Wait... if it's snowing at fauxklore's, then...." And I opened my door and there's a bit of white stuff outside! Okay, it's not much, but I'll take it.

(In case it's unclear, I love snow :-).)

[ron_newman]

They sell the Sunday Post on Saturday? Why?

No snow in Boston yet, but we might get a few flurries tomorrow.

[fauxklore]

They have a special preview edition that comes out on Saturday, available from about 6 a.m..

I really use the on-line version for news, but I buy the paper edition for the non-news sections, e.g. TV guide, magazine section, book review, comics. And I prefer to go out to get it, since I travel enough to make getting a paper delivered a bit of a pain.

Btw, the NY Times takes a somewhat similar approach, in that there is an early edition you can buy on Saturday. I believe that if you get it delivered, you get the non-news sections on Saturday and just the news sections on Sunday.