Sunday, October 30, 2011

Everything Looks Better in the Morning






Yeah, Right!
Honda Fit Last Night 10-29-11
Truck Roof
This Morning


This is probably the worst, most widespread weather event we've experienced in the Northeast ever.
In Connecticut nearly 800,000 homes without power and no light at the end of the tunnel, so to speak.  The number of trees down is worst than a typical hurricane and with 12 to 24 inches of heavy concrete snow, cleanup and power restoration will take more than a week.  They are warning people that power will out for at least a week.

We have yet to go around the property to assess the damages.  Thankfully most of our leaves were down, so tree damage looks minimal.  We also have a small generator, thus my few minutes to do a post here.  We have propane for cooking and a small propane heater in the basement.  Because our well needs power and the generator can't service it, we put up some water for flushing and some for drinking, but I'm afraid we will be melting snow to supplement that fairly soon.

We are expecting record low temperatures tonight.  The night before Halloween - they call it hell night here-abouts - and this may live up to the name.

Saturday, October 29, 2011

Welcome to New England

October 29, 2011.  It is snowing.  Not just a dusting.  Southern New England is expecting 6 to 18 inches of snow by tomorrow morning depending on location - we should get 8 to 12 inches here.  These pictures were taken at about 1:10pm Saturday after about 45 minutes of snow fall.


Even Benni isn't too thrilled with the prospect of winter snow.

We are hoping to have Indian Summer next week.

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Glee

Poster Circa 1966
The White Cardboard Stock
Has Long Since Yellowed
While so many of you were watching Glee on Fox, Leon and I were catching up on True Blood, Dexter, Drop Dead Diva, and several other past and current TV series.  When we finally discovered Glee on Netflix, we watched every episode.  It is cute, funny and smart.  The humor reminds me a bit of Psycho Beach Party with a bit of Fame mixed in.

My take on Glee is that the high school Glee Club has come a long way since 1966.  I was in our high school Glee Club even though I'm tone deaf and have a range of about three notes.  I would mouth the words when I couldn't reach the notes.  I'm not sure why they kept me - maybe the good sister felt I needed some extra curricular activity or that I fit in with the Glee Club crowd, or they needed bodies to fill up the stage.

I got dad to help me print up silk screen posters for our annual concert.  That was my major contribution.  God knows I couldn't carry a tune.

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