Snow

Personal Year, New Beginnings

February 2, 2015 by Avogadro Mole

Someone told me long ago that one’s “personal year” starts on the person’s birthday. Today is my birthday, and so I begin another year.

I went out this morning, planning on gifting myself with a long drive, to find that my car had been replaced with a hummock of snow. I was tempted to head out anyway, but what with this being a Monday and all, staying home might be a good thing.

Merlin agrees. I opened the door so he could go out, knowing that he wouldn’t. He looked at the snow, watched it fall, meowed in an annoyed fashion, went back to his favorite chair (mine) and is now napping.

I’ve been relegated to the computer chair, but I have the hot Ovaltine. Life is good.

I’m where? Doing what?

November 16, 2011 by Avogadro Mole

I’m in Albany, NY, enjoying(?) my first winter with snow. I started the year in Granada Hills, in warm sunny southern California. Sunny southern California, where we keep our snow sensibly on the mountains, admiring it from a distance, or visiting it occasionally to ski.Then a pack-n-move my stuff to my mother’s, and my housemates to Lancaster. A short side trip to my mother’s to help after her knee replacement surgery. Thence to Albany, totally unplanned, to be company to my friend jan while he deals with chemo.

So here I am. Winter. Snow. What can I say? It’s gorgeous.

Standing on the front porch.