Here's the thing, the land of the ice and snow was more like the land of t shirt and shorts for most of the past week. Obviously someone remembered to pay their carbon tax, and then they didn't. Yesterday dawned grey and chill, with the cold seeping into your Arctyrx fleece as a harbinger of things to come, Winter.
So I took the young 'un out for an enormous burger at the Inglewood Diner, tasty, and prophesied, "Son, it feels like snow." He agreed, and sure enough that's exactly what happened. A biting wind kicked in at around 6 pm and white supremacy fell from the sky, indifferent to the fate of the oppressed.
"Look, Dad," exclaimed Junior LSP, "A winter wonderland!" And so it was, "Welcome to Narnia, Son." We spent the rest of the evening watching John Wick movies along with superlative Chinese food ordered up from Chinatown. Big fun.
Today dawned clear, crisp and bright, beautiful. Climate Change, you see, has its benefits and to celebrate this I shoveled the sidewalk and scraped ice off the car. Then SL's rig pulled up from High River and off we went to the airport, mission accomplished.
Stay Frosty,
LSP
10 comments:
Fridge magnet is surgical, wot?
Most definitely, Wild.
Lol quite the post, the magnet calls to my soul on a different level 🤣
So you're back, deep in the heart of Texas? And not a moment too soon. I hope that your trip did what you intended. I also hope that James and MRSLSP are doing well. We held down the fort while you were gone. I had the DLC exercising with the quatrain, etc, slicing melons in half while on the gallop and spitting them with lances.
Good article at Ace about Glo-bull Warming: https://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=407075
Safe travels LSP.
It's a very powerful magnet, KK.
It's good to be back, LL, and I'd have liked to stay longer but duty calls. The Calgary team are in good form and James is signed up for school in January with a view towards software development, good for him. MRSLSP is running around working, good, and helping to look after her aged Mother, also good.
And big thanks for looking after the training program while I was away. You know what they're like, have to be kept busy or they ride off to the nearest saloon, or worse.
Thanks for the link, DOS. We live, it seems, in a kingdom of lies. Who is the Father of Lies?
To be fair, pretty much any weather can be shorts weather, if you’re tough (or crazy) enough. Ages ago at MIT there was this ectomorphic Sikh undergrad who went around all year (through the Boston winter) wearing shorts. I was starting to wonder if this was some weird religious thing (maybe the occult “sixth K” or something). Finally I met a guy who was a friend of Mr Turban-and-Shorts.
I asked the friend what the deal was. Was it some cultural imperative? Friend burst out laughing. “No. When Sukhmeet flew out here in August it was hot so he was wearing shorts. The airline lost his suitcase so he doesn’t have any long pants.”
“What?”
“True story.”
MIT is a weird place.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=E55t0lnp_8M
Drill like this?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ETPriJUzSjI&pp=ygUWbWFuIGZyb20gc25vd3kgcml2ZXIgMg%3D%3D
Mike_C
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