Although it has basically been a short winter, and the cold wintry weather didn't truly begin until well into January, I have a complaint.
It has come to my attention that in the 4 or 5 weeks that have encompassed our season of cold, nasty, wintry weather, the weather has interfered with my Thursday knitting circle three times. This strikes me as completely unfair.
Worse, none of those nasty wintry storms actually turned into anything -- there was just enough slick, icy, sleet/snow mix in the early evening to make the roads treacherous for my 40 minute drive down to Yarn Central but then, just after I got settled in and reconciled myself to the thought of not going, the evil weather stopped. I think that if I have to miss knitting, Mother Nature should at least leave something on the ground to compensate my for my pain.
Yesterday morning I dutifully salted the driveway with the requisite 15 gallons of calcium chloride:
And all I got for the hour of my time and very tired sore arms was a little rain and sleet which has now disappeared.
G is trying to console me by telling me that I had I not salted the driveway it would not be bone dry now. It was a sheet of ice this morning and the steepest parts of the driveway are "blessed" with an almost complete lack of winter sun.
Although it has been a short winter, I hope this slow torture ends soon.
Isn't it interesting how the weather is just nasty enough for long enough to scare us away? I had noticed it myself, but I thought I was just being a bit too much of a conspiracy theorist!
Posted by: Gina | Friday, March 02, 2007 at 11:30 PM