January 2, 2005

Yayyyy!  I *love* being a Witch!  Lots of praying and candle lighting and positive visualization and look at how the weather forecast has changed since yesterday!!  (compare to the one way down below)

Grizzly Flats Today at: 5:53 pm PST F° | C° Currently: 27° Cloudy High: 44° Low: 35° 5 Day Forecast Today Tomorrow Tue Wed Thu     Rain   High: 44° Low: 35°     Showers   High: 46° Low: 32°     Few Showers   High: 44° Low: 30°     Few Showers   High: 45° Low: 25°     Few Showers   High: 45° Low: 31°

Yeah budddeee!

Right now, we are up to just under 3 feet of snowfall since Wednesday early evening with almost no meltage.  The drifts are huge.  It took Eric over an hour to dig the jeep out of the driveway today.  My front porch has no definition.  You can't tell where it ends, it just has a huge snow beard all around it and you can't tell where the step off is.  The bamboo torches out in the circle are only about a foot out of the show, just their little heads sticking up out of the drifts.  The resin chairs we use to sit around the fire are in snow up past the seat.  All of the kids bikes and wagons are completely under snow.  The sleds got left out and are... somewhere. 

Fortunately, the roads are clear as of this writing, so we expect that the buses will run tomorrow, provided we don't get dumped on again tonight.  I am going to call the appraiser and beg and wheedle and see what we can do.  Time to be more proactive.  I need to get this underway and at least get a plan in place.

For now, time to rest.

Much love,
K

January 1, 2005

I might just *go away* for a while.  No, not in that nice, cabana boy, Acapulco Gold way, but in that, "we have about 2 feet of snow and it is STILL falling, therefore, I might soon have no electricity way."  I can't believe how deep this snow is.  I didn't realize that snow could get this deep in real America, especially in freakin California. 

The thermometer on a chair on the front porch

Nathan, this morning

Eric and Nathan

Have I mentioned that I hate the snow?  The appraiser wouldn't come up because it was snowing.  That puts off the loan even further, since she said the roads needed to be "clear and dry" for a couple of days for her to make the half hour trip.  That isn't likely to happen until March or so.  Eric is going to see if she is willing to be picked up by him in the four-wheel drive jeep once the roads are accessible.  Right now, the jeep will not move from its place in the driveway.

Eric and Delena drove to Diamond Springs yesterday to the Humane Society and got three new kitties for us.  They are still in that unfriendly, new cat mode, so they are hanging out in the laundry room, hiding behind furniture.  I am now officially the weird old Witch who lives in the mountains and has a ton of cats.  First, here's one of the cats we already had, Creep (originally Josh's cat) who we absolutely adore:

He's a gigantic lion cat

KC, our other cat, is a little more camera shy.  She's a 13-year-old tortoise shell tabby.  Our "Grande Dame":

Now for the newbies:

This is Nova, named by Dylan.  He's about 12 weeks old.

Here is Nova with Zachary, who is 4 years old.

This is Tuffy, who is the baby at about 8 weeks old

These are close ups of Zachary.  He's HUGE.  Eric managed to convince the
Humane Society lady that we would protect him from the cults of Witches who
torture black cats in Grizzly Flats.  (*insert smirk here*)  Screw it, I got a cool cat.
I pick my battles.  To take this picture, I had to lie down flat on my tummy and put
the camera under the table where he's hiding. 

All of the kitties are neutered  boys, so little KC is the only girl of the five.  KC and Creep haven't met the newbies yet.  That should be interesting.  KC has seen so many other cats come and go, she won't likely react.  Creep is King of the Mountain, so he's the wild card.

So that's what is happening in my world.  The snow is still falling hard and now we wait.  Wait to see when the appraiser comes up.  Wait to see when Eric can get to work.  Wait to see when the kids can go back to school. Wait to see how long the electricity holds out (it was out for about an hour this morning). 

I'm out of toilet paper and onto Kleenex.

eeep

Love,

K

at: 10:53 am PST F° | C° Currently: 26° Unknown Precipitation High: 43° Low: 32°

What the complete frig is "unknown precipitation?"  I'll be happy to call them up
and give them "informed" precipitation:  "ASSHOLE DEEP SNOW!!"

Today Tomorrow Mon Tue Wed     Rain/Snow Showers   High: 43° Low: 32°     Rain/Snow   High: 41° Low: 28°     Few Showers   High: 41° Low: 23°     Snow Showers   High: 38° Low: 28°     Showers   High: 43° Low: 30°

Now mind you, look at the numbers for the projected and current temperatures.  Then look at the Current Temp.
So we are projected to have a low of 32 today, but it is currently 26.  Our thermometer says 28 degrees.

I'm not waxing all optimistic here.  >:<  I'm screwed.

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCKKKKKK

December 30, 2004

What I life I lead.  I love it.  My friend, Georgia, was with me on Sunrise Blvd in Sacramento one time, coming from the Elephant Bar where we'd had a bootylicious lunch.  Some guys in a little car next to us started making all kind of weird gestures in tune with their music at the stop light.  I started helping them and then pretty soon, we had a little jam thing going on.  Georgia said, "Weird shit only happens to me when I'm with you."  I've thought about that a lot since then and I've decided that I really dig weird shit happening to me.  I love having an odd life. 

Today's weird thing happened before 8am even.  It's snowing like mad today.  Started yesterday early, but we only got a smattering until around 1pm when it started to stick.  Around 2 or so, Dylan and I headed out for town, which is another story altogether.  The snow pretty much stopped while we were gone (no way would I drive back in the scary ice and snow) and really started up in force once we got home.  We got around 4-5 inches over night and it has been falling steadily all day.  I keep having to go outside every half hour or so and knock the snow off the satellite dish. It's on the roof, so that's a mean trick.  I had to leave the step stool out there to keep from dragging it out all the time.  With the long broom, I can barely reach it, so I have to kind of goose it up in the air toward the dish and aim for the concave.  So far, I've made it every time and so far, no matter where I stand or what direction I sweep,