In which I go on and on and ON and on about trivia that barely even interests me; God only knows why I expect you to read it! Bread’s been cash-poor lately, so he’s taken to waking me up early in the mornings and handing me my checkbook so I can sign a blank check […]
In which nature fucks some shit up! (This post is mostly for Fairfield ex-pats.) Iowa City is an hour away from here. It’s where one goes to party and shop when one lives in Fairfield. A tornado cruised through Iowa City last night, killing one person, ripping the roof off Menard’s and the Old Capitol […]
In which it only rained. The NWS cancelled the tornado watch just before I shut my computer down and the satellite went out. It got really windy and a storm front rolled in; it rained like hell for awhile and that was it. Bread called from Fairfield to say they were getting grape-sized hail. No […]
In which the weather is expected to get heavy, man, heavy. Bread woke me up from a deep sleep this morning. Bread and three dogs and a cat all got in bed with me and wiggled and demanded my attention. I felt like I was surfacing from a still and silent depth into a world […]
In which I’m trying to decide whether I should just turn around and go right back home. It’s just gonna be all kinds of crappy out for the rest of the day. This just in: WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON. A MIX OF FREEZING RAIN, SLEET AND SNOW WILL […]
In which… hmm. Nothing, I guess. It snowed a little bit last night, a light dusting. That’s the view out the windshield of the jeep as I drove down the driveway this morning. (Does every language refer to weather as “it”? “It” rained, “it” snowed?) The roads were totally clear. But it made everything look […]
In which yesterday’s nice, sweet weather turns to snow. Yesterday was beautiful. The kind of beautiful that, in Iowa in January, makes people mutter suspiciously to one another, “It’s too nice out. Probably gonna dump a foot of snow on us any minute now.” And so it has begun. And it might keep up all […]
In which winter begins to suck again in earnest. It’s getting cold outside again and I’m not wearing warm enough clothes. It was sorta-kinda nice this morning when I dressed but now the temperature is plummeting. I do not own a single pair of black shoes. How the hell did this happen? I’m wearing brown […]
It which it was supposed to snow 3-6 inches last night. And it totally did. There were about 4 inches of snow on my jeep when I went out to sweep it off and start it up this morning. I had to put it in 4WD to get from the farm to the blacktop. I […]
And I hate being cold. I think Nature’s just showing off with this 6-degrees-outside crap. We all know there’s really no reason to be that far below freezing. (Actually, it’s 23 degrees out right now. But it was 6 when I drove home from band practice Thursday night.) I’m sitting here at my desk in […]
