Snowmaggedon 2015!!!

Record high temps in Seattle.
I worked up a sweat just bringing in the beer.
Whew!
Life is tough.

Alarmingly warm so far this year...I am going to have to mow my lawn a full month before normal, in about a week.

Just to give you some hope, today in neighbour's garden:

(Boston: 42°21′29″N 71°03′49″W - my place:51°42′51″N , 8°20′11″E)

The bird are singing, too, ...

From The Telegraph...




Ninety percent of Lake Erie has frozen over as seen in this image taken by Nasa's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer satellite. The aftermath of a deadly winter storm paralyzed much of the eastern United States on Tuesday and forecasters warned of the worst cold in two decades from another arctic front this week.

65 minutes this AM. Cleared up the new stuff in the places where we were already clear (yes, it snowed today) and made it to the detached garage.

For the most part, you have your choice of 2 forms of weather this February in Boston:

• Above 20 F, with snow or
  
• Below 20 F, without snow but with a frostbite warning

We sometimes get the Anchorage Special, which is a combo of both.

So, how is all this affecting Region's home-to-work jogs? Has he broken the one-hour mark lately?

Have you jumped out of the window into the snow yet?

I have a flat front porch roof that I have to shovel off after heavy snowfalls.
Couple this with a small front yard and the pile of snow from sidewalk and
porch can get pretty high. Once, some years ago, I yielded to the
temptation to jump into it from the porch roof. My neighbor from across
the street (a nurse) ratted me out to the Lovely Bride. I am now under
solemn promise not to do it again.

Lameth non timebit domui suae a frigoribus nivis omnes enim domestici eius vestiti duplicibus (Proverbs 31:21)

#BostonBlizzardChallenge: Boston Mayor Says Stop Jumping Out of Windows

Not-so-wicked-smaht Bostonians are stripping down to their underwear and jumping out of their windows into piles of snow to take the #BostonBlizzardChallenge spreading on social media.

Though clips of half-naked residents plunging into the snow have social media users amused, Boston's mayor isn't laughing.

"This isn't Loon Mountain," Mayor Martin Walsh said in a news conference on Monday, referring to a New Hampshire ski resort. "This is the city of Boston, where we're trying to remove snow off of the street, and it becomes very dangerous."

http://abcnews.go.com/US/bostonblizzardchallenge-boston-mayor-stop-jumping-windows/story?id=29045774

He's probably right, fostering the dives could result in more trouble, already enough with that, though he seems more worried about being serious when quoted.

On the other hand, I get it, the play, from afar.
(grandmother from south boston, then to watertown)

As a land arch, I do hope no one lands on concrete somehow.

Was reading last month that increasing numbers of cities are outlawing going down hills with any contraption on city owned land because of a desire to cut the liability insurance costs. This is decades after the same excuse was used to ruin all of the play equipment in parks. I am glad I was a kid when kids were still allowed to have fun.

these days i head down to the tropical paradise that is NYC to do my jogging...

I'm an old park designer, not intensively but interested. I'd have to know more specifics.

And then I'd bill you.

To be honest, I did some small child park design, inner city; some large museum design; ordinary tract parks (don't get me started), and early on some skid row park stuff, none of it by me as other than helper as I was still in school. Turned out to be useful photographer. Just about in reverse order.

But, I've had park interest, see Newton.

Amen amen dico vobis

I've been to Loon many times.
Never saw anybody in his undies jumping into snow banks.

But at the now-closed Mt. Whittier slope where the Blitzschnell and
Hochflieger clubs used to hold "Silly Slalom", I saw a guy drop trou and
ski-jump into a large pool of snow-melt.

Ten degrees Fahrenheit today. If that's a tropical paradise, you're easy to please. I have a four-miler scheduled for tomorrow, but I think I'll skip.

Funny story about Loon - not quite jumping and it wasn't intentional....I was skiing down one trail - my boyfriend ahead of me. He stopped to see where I was...now I am a pretty poor skier - but I wasn't that far behind him...I couldn't stop quick especially since it was a warm day and so was wet - I turned to avoid running into him

I then went between two trees just missing them and then off the trail into a steep incline (think jumping from a two story into deep snow) - I couldn't get up onto the trail from there. I had to take off my skis, toss them up and use my poles to be pulled up onto the trail.

I think the Loon was in reference to the name -- loony people. Bad joke my the mayor.