This is why I'm glad I cancelled my satellite TV!

[thewayne]

I remember going out during snow storms with a broom to try to clear the dish and the transponder. No more! Of course, the internet connection could drop, but I have over 600 DVDs and Bluerays, plus more on my iMac. And there's always books.



As usual, clicken to embiggen.

We've got a pretty big storm hitting us, dumping a consistent inch or more per hour since midnight or so last night.

A couple more under the cut.



Athena's companion is always patient and vigilant, even if it is a bit nippy out.

I went out to shovel off the porch, in preparation to take at least some of the trash out (it was 18f outside), and when I saw the had on the owl and the buildup on the rails I came back in and had Russet fetch my Lumix. It was just too cool not to get a photo.



Nothing much to say on this one, I just really liked the patterns of how the plethora of branches had caught snow, and it was kinda neat how the camera's somewhat high shutter caught the snow falling in front of it all.

Comments

[elf]

I occasionally think about moving somewhere else, somewhere considerably cheaper. And then someone reminds me that everywhere cheaper gets weather, and weather is often unpleasant.

I mean. It's cold here, this week. I have to wear shoes and socks in the house to be comfortable. I have to wear long sleeves in the office. I have to use two blankets at night. I'm almost tempted to close the skylight.

[thewayne]

Aaah, poor woobie!  Sounds like you suffer so! ;-) It was quite a change, moving here from Phoenix.  I've now experienced -20f to over 120f, which is something.  And in the same year!  The thing that vexes me is that most of NM is not inexpensive in the larger cities.  Car insurance is comparable to Phoenix, so is housing.  The only thing that I've found that cost less was car registration, and that is not a major expenditure. I'm sure there are places with truly low costs of living, but I haven't seen them.  And this is something that constantly ticks me off: middle-class wages have been stagnant for over 30 years, cost of living has not been.  But that's the subject of another rant.

re: weather

[bibliofile]

Having grown up with weather, I understand that weather is easier to move away from than to move to. Kind of like New York City. (Though if you're in the Bay Area, isn't almost everything else cheaper? But that's a different post.)

Some have said that there's no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing. I think they lived in Scandinavia.

ETA: It's not that weather is unpleasant, it's that some of it makes extra work. Or y'know kills people.

Re: weather

[thewayne]

Or gets your car stuck in snow.  I went out for pizza tonight, haven't gotten my snow tires mounted yet, and there was a nice big ol' pickup stuck in my way home.  I had to back down, reverse into another road, and go back to another road that let me take an alternative way back to my street.  I didn't quite make it up that road and briefly got stuck, but was able to muster enough energy to get my card sliding back downhill, turned around, and got enough speed up to get onto my street, and then it was easy getting home. Ky previous car, an all-wheel drive Toyota Matrix (about 5" of ground clearance) I got stuck everywhere.  My Subaru with snow tires is almost unstickable.  But this winter has been nothing - until Thursday after midnight!  I might be able to get my tires put on tomorrow, not sure yet.  I beat a path to the shed where my tires are, tomorrow I might shovel out the door area and get them loaded up and down to Alamogordo.  At least I got a set of steel rims with them, so a swap takes all of 15 minutes.