I haven’t given up blogging. It’s been a very busy week but i promise to post my thoughts on Lost’s final episode, an obscene haiku and maybe even a Dead Or Alive before the week is over.
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Our Weekend Flood
Last week our area in Columbia County (NY) was hit with several huge rain storms that left a lot of water behind. Here are some pictures of the mess.
This is usually a quiet, slowly trickling stream in our woods. There used to be a mess of fallen trees across the stream that we used as a bridge. The water took that mess away.
Another shot of our babbling brook during the storm
The water filled up our basement window well and began pouring in until we got outside with buckets and shovels. In this picture, a family of frogs outside in the basement well are trying to stay above the water level
A local campground
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How’s The Weather Down There
It’s been a year and a few days since Seth and I left the concrete jungle of New York City and became ruralpolitans in the mountains of upstate New York. In that time we have seen a lot of strange and mysterious things, such as competent AND friendly retail workers, a mailman who knows our name, low definition (LD) television, and flying turkeys.
Perhaps the biggest shocker has been the weather. In New York City you might go an entire season without any real snow-fall. If there is a storm that leads to an inch or more of accumulation the whole city goes into a tizzy and everyone from financiers to pastry chefs pull on their gloves and join in the world’s rowdiest snow-ball fight.
Travel just a couple of hours north and everything changes. Snow is something you deal with every day like herpes or children. Up here its odd not to have a few inches of snow on the ground and everything looks like its covered in marshmallows. So while my dear friends down-state or the citidiots as we like to call them, put on their big city suits and hop in their fancy livery cabs, I’ll be here in the mountains. Bundled up and doing something strapping.
PS. The picture is the view from my living room, taken this morning.
What month is it?
This is what the view looked like outside my window yesterday.
And this morning,
Here’s another one of the car. Good thing I’m not going anywhere this morning.
I spoke to someone who lives about 20 minutes away and they didn’t get any snow. The big difference is that we live on a mountain, in fact, from the end of my road, I can look down on the top of a sky slope across the valley.
