🪆.... " hey, you're kinda busy " I query
Saleslady " it is four days til Xmas ! " Yeah. Duh, it hit me
I guess that I shopped Xmas stuff early. I was picking up some groceries
The saleslady said ' I was all done shopping on Nov 30 '
She beat me by a week and a bit
sunny. cold. wintry. quiet
life in the ' boro
chores. coffee and typing. kidding
I have to grab the paper. shovel off the deck. I use a board w/ handles to push snow around. no lifting.
🌧 ... the ' boro has - yes - a mess. Sloppy. cold and grim
oh ! great words to start the day
we are catching the lower end of a storm track. called lake effect added to a blast of air coming East.
the Great Lakes are warm. thus, moisture is carried Eastward [ mostly ] to us
at a lower to mid elevation, we will catch some precipitation
I turned on ' Chilly Philly ' the lawn penguin, as a beacon for the street. a pretty lonely sentinel, let me tell you
follow up report. messy for sure, but more visual than physical. however, flakes continue to fall sporadically, it is getting colder tho '
ice is coming to the road surface
🧊 ... sun and cold or SUNICE
someone once asked me what does ' SUNICE ' mean in Japanese
My reply ' ? '
later we passed a girl wearing a skijacket. " hey, that's the label ' SUNICE '
I said " sun ice " maybe
🔖 ... sang Cyndi Lauper
I re - phrase and say
... we are living in a digital world ...
and I am not digital. a dinosaur
however. I sit in the driveway and ..... set the house alarm, open the front door and open the garage door
oh, adjust the thermostat --> from the Pixel 6a [ phone ]
plus I can watch the street from my phone
but
so far behind.
the ' boro. dull and expecting rain not cold
🦃 a big switcheroo ! for the first time in forever, no turkey for the 25 th
we will do a roast beef instead
now, we did do a turkey some weeks ago, sort of mid way between Thanksgiving and Xmas
the ' boro is grim looking. mild and damp but no sun
you gotta take what you can get
🍱 ... another year closing
w/ sun in the ' boro and cold. we went to a Italian themed restaurant for dinner Fri nite
two children Am .. and He ..... [ marvellously well behaved, oh, that was me ]
the whole story. Chilly Philly the inflating Penguin has been out on night duty for three weeks.
Philly is surrounded by a Zoo on the West.
we are talking the width of the property in lights. reindeer, candy canes the whole show
on Philly s East side. are icicle lights and reindeer
we like to think of Philly as subtle. we do subtle very well. coming home last night. Philly looked like a sentinel. on guard. doing his best
and out competed
sorry Philly
