Cold

[jhetley]

Somewhere around absolute zero out there.

(Actually, more like 0 F, but a NE wind that bites.)

We're supposed to get significant snow tomorrow afternoon into Monday.  Too bad my sister arrives this afternoon . . .

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[malkingrey.livejournal.com]

We're supposed to get significant snow tomorrow afternoon into Monday.

Us, too, over in Colebrook NH.

Notes to self: do supplementary grocery shopping today; take trash to dump tomorrow morning before the snow hits.

A lot of snow just before Christmas is actually a good thing for folks around here; it gets the snowmobile trails good and ready for the Christmas-to-New-Year's tourists. (One year a while back we didn't get significant snowfall until after New Year's; the impact on the local economy was, as our state rep put it to the governor down in Concord, the equivalent of a major crop failure.)

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Yeah, snow is a cash crop in a lot of Maine, as well. We even have a Nordic skiing competition/training facility, biathlon and cross-country. Hard to run snowmaking equipment on that . . .

[malkingrey.livejournal.com]

As they used to say down in Florida, when I was but a wee thing, "It's a damned sight easier picking tourists than picking oranges."

I'm sure the same goes for pine logs, potatoes, and maple syrup.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Plus, shearing tourists is a hell of a lot less dangerous than commercial fishing.

[malkingrey.livejournal.com]

Hence the traditional tourist-shearing chanties and ballads.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

And the border collie trials, herding and penning tourists.

[wcg.livejournal.com]

There are no winds at absolute zero. I know that's small consolation.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

That's why I said "around" . . .