It's weird how morning temps below zero start to feel normal after a while. -4 by the bank clock as I drove by this morning. There was a weather alert for freezing fog, and I admit I consider very cold-weather fog to be a new  phenomenon to me. I'm used to "the air is warmer than the snow" snow fog, and I've certainly seen frosty mornings, but this ( Read more... )

I've been ready to be done with winter for so long now. It seems like we've gotten a major storm every weekend since before christmas. Record breaking snowfall for January .Can't we pack it up and send it over to the west coast where they really need it?). So far, with our second major storm bearing down on us for the month, February is looking to ( Read more... )

Sad for the loss of celebrities, but even more sad for my friend and coworker who lost her beautiful 15 year old girl last night:


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Someone I know posted this to facebook today (caution, some may find this hard to read if you've been in similar very difficult work conditions): http://tonotliveinvain.wordpress.com/2014/01/25/the-myth ( Read more... )

And I know this is pretty soon after the last shoulder post, but another change today ( Read more... )

I'm trying to be a bit more adventurous with my cooking lately, and break out of a few cooking habits.

So when I saw this recipe for scallop cakes, and the suggested alternative of whitefish, it caught my attention ( Read more... )

is at lunchtime, I can take a break, put the laptop on the charger, and go out and run around in the snow with the dogs.

Best Lunch Ever.

Today, for the first time in a very long time, I was able to get into a ball-supported child's pose (arms extended rather than folded back, ball under my upper chest and head), and relax fully into it. So, so good. Still some added range needed to get into the fully extended version, but this...was...big ( Read more... )

So yeah, Riley won't get her nails trimmed without a muzzle anymore. She's been doing so much better, I had her up on the chair working through them, but I quicked the last rear toenail (of course it was the last one), and she open-mouth muzzle punched me in the face. Oy. (And I refuse to be one of those in-denial dog owners who think their dog ( Read more... )

I had signed up to work and have a few runs at a match over the weekend, and it ended up being cancelled due to horrible road conditions (freezing rain over ice, on the dirt roads around her facility). Oy! I was at the "oh, why did I sign up?" stage of my dog show nerves, so part of me was relieved, and part of me is really sad. I'm hoping to make ( Read more... )