Sunshine

[jhetley]

I thought I needed to record that. We probably will teeter on the divide between "Partly Sunny" and "Partly Cloudy" today, though one can hope that the "Partly Cloudy" doesn't run down the gutters into the leaf-clogged catch basins...

Also warm, by the standards of a Maine December, with temperatures back into the 40s F again today. T'ain't natural, and no good will come of it. Especially no-good for the ski resorts and snowmobile lodges. But averages tend to average out somewhere, so we watch the northern sky with a sense of foreboding.

Will go out for a walk shortly -- take 'em when you can get 'em. Don't know if I'll be ambushed by Tiger again. He came charging across the street last night, with many complaints about how his family has been abusing and neglecting him. Not a bad act for a cat somewhere over ten years old.

Also batted my heels when I tried to leave before he was through with me.

Comments

[malkingrey.livejournal.com]

They're worrying about the winter snows around here, too. No ski resorts in the area except for The Balsams, but miles and miles of snowmobile trails. A couple of the tiny tiny towns north of us make most of their year's money in the snowmobile season, and after two sucky ones in a row they're hurting bad.

Poor snowmobile trails are bad for accidents, too . . . the die-hard snowmobilers come up and use them anyway when they're mostly ice and half-buried rocks, and then the ambulance squad has to fetch the rescue sled and haul them out of the woods.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Yeah, snowmobile accidents...

A couple of years back, Maine had more snowmobile fatalities than murders. Don't know if they let that news cross the border.

[malkingrey.livejournal.com]

Well, it wouldn't come as any surprise around here, that's for sure. Things haven't been as bad again as the time several years back -- not the hard winter of '95, I don't think, but sometime around then -- when the local ER had one snowmobile fatality per weekend for 7 straight weeks. It got so bad that the ER nurses pooled their money and had posters professionally printed up and put around town in the convenience store and the gas stations and by all the ATMs, asking people please not to drink and snowmobile because they didn't want to see them afterward.

The year after that, the Fish and Game people starting doing random breathalyzer checks out on the snowmobile trails, late at night, and we haven't had a year quite that bad since.

[quilzas.livejournal.com]

Yeah, decent conditions for a walk are getting harder and harder to find. Especially since I dislike walking in the dark when it's cold on top of that (and even if it's a nice day, by the time I get home, it's dark).

Warm and dark - fine. Even cool and dark - fine. Cold and dark - don't care for it. Well, unless I have company. Then I can deal.