Hipsta-Blizzard

Just using hipstamatic to help me procrastinate.

Time to Celebrate

This is a happy day! Today is the first time this year I saw Cadbury Mini Eggs for sale! Lets celebrate!

Now She Uses It

We were talking about getting rid of the cat’s scratching post because she never uses it. Then she does this.

Shoveling

Given the choice between surgery without anesthetic and shoveling after two feet of snow…

I’d have to think about it.

Guess what wouldn’t start.

I’m six feet five inches tall. The drift over the mini van was at least two feet taller than I.

I did the unthinkable today. I shoveled the driveway without pulling either car into the street. How?

I used the garage! Today was the first major storm since we bought the house where the garage was clean enough to hide a car while I shoveled. It was a sublime experience (not really).

There are two heavenly moments when shoveling your driveway. One is obvious… its the moment you are finally finished. The other is more subtle. The other is that moment when you first break through the into the plowed road beyond the edge of the driveway. It’s a sweet moment.

Remember, if you have a fire hydrant on your property it is up to you to shovel it out so that any emergency personel who might need it can get to it. Don’t be the jack ass who thinks it’s the city/town’s job. Just do it.

I’m still trying to decide if shoveling would be preferable to surgery sans anesthesia.

The Blizzard of ’13

Today has a high potential of a tremendous amount of sucking from a meteorological perspective.

The forecasts are calling for one to two feet of snow today into tomorrow. Some are even saying it could be more than two feet. The initial estimates were for the crap to start falling from the sky this morning and continue all night. Now they are saying it won’t start until the afternoon. The local media hype is on super ultra mega overload. Supermarkets have been picked clean. Panic is everywhere.

Every year New England seems to go through this at least once. A storm is predicted and the news networks blow it up into some sort of world ending event, everyone freaks out, and then the storm fizzles. I’m not saying the storm today is going to fizzle, but it’s a blizzard. It’s going to suck. All of this is true, but it’s not worth the panic people are displaying.

Jen and I are both working from home today, and the kids had school canceled. All of this before a single flake fell. Again, I’m not saying the preparations are unnecessary, and I for one am going to be seriously thankful come 5:30 tonight when I don’t have to drive home.

I guess what I’m trying to say is… This is New England. We get snow. We get blizzards. Every single one of us has been through this a million times before. Get a grip, people. Stop acting like rookies and man up.

Here we see our front yard… nothing yet.