I'm Not the Only One...

 who likes to sleep in (Brit. lie in) around here.

In case you're wondering, this little darling's name is "Townie", so called because I bought him in Georgetown, but we already had a pet named George (a European hedgehog from Yorkshire).  It's a good story: the shop has just recently opened and in I walk, take one look, and say "I'll take the sheep."  The woman behind the counter was delighted, but said she didn't have a bag big enough for the cute little rascal.  So I simply tucked him under my arm, walked down the sidewalk, got on a bus to the Metro station, and took the train home. Not a word was said, and barely a long glace given.  Life in the big city, they've seen weirder.

A Piece of My Mind

The other evening, my mind was wandering about, as it tends to do, and it started thinking about memories. Memories have been on and off my mind of late, probably a function of my skidding gracefully into decrepitude. I then jumped into the odd question of just how many memories I posses. I quickly turned away from that realizing that memories do not come in quantifiable units, and almost every memory is part of a larger enveloping memory, so let’s not go down that path.

So then I pondered that all those perhaps millions or billions of memories (depending on how you count the uncountable) were all sitting in my adorable little brain. A whole lifetime, whether I remember it or not, is sitting in a damp, electrified ball of pudding.

I mean, think if it. Desire, passion, enmity; the Hobbit and Quantum Mechanics; Plato, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, and a whole bunch of unsavory types; pirates and popes, all emanating from this wet, grey, lump of something or another and its wiring. How on earth did that happen? The thing even found a way of preserving little pieces of itself via writing, and that was after it learned to talk with its own kind in speech.

The more I think about these strange little buggers, which ultimately is just the brain thinking about itself, the more I admire them—or maybe the more it admires itself.

Bedding

I used yellow sheets with the purple bedding for the first time. I was delighted with the result.

To Make Up for My Slothiness...

 I brought you some flowers.

10,000 Pardons... Again

Once again, I have become negligent in my blogging duties. I am awash in shame and self-loathing. I fear preoccupation and laziness are to blame. Be assured, I shall return...

 

Dig-Out Day, or an Attempt Thereof

So HamsterFans, it's dig-out day here in the nation's capital. Our conservatory is high enough so as to afford a nice perch to watch the attempts. Apparently there is an ice layer in with the snow, which affords a greater challenge--especially for those who have no idea what they're doing in the first place. Twice we've seen people banging against windshields  or car bodies with the blunt end of a snow scraper--likely not a recommended procedure in their owner's manuals. A few cars made it half way out of their parking spaces, only to be abandoned in the attempt. Some poor souls are out there for a second day, with about as much luck.

Some very clever folk put plastic sheets over their vehicles, apparently not knowing how much snow weighs, or perhaps intending just to wait for a thaw? Haven't seen any go to their cars yet...

Weather update

Well, it wasn't quite as bad as predicted here. I was watching the weather radar from time to time, and several times a hole appeared in the storm right around DC. Maybe Marjorie Taylor Greene was right and we do control the weather. Of course, since we don't get much snow here and people don't know what to do, there is a fair amount of panic and local news announcing the end of civilization. Still, it's 18º (-8ºC) out there, feels like 5º (-15ºC) with a wind at 12-24mph (20-38kph). What ya might call a tad brisk.

The Return of the Luscious Lillies

Weather Report

Well, yesterday was in the mid 50's (10 C) and sunny.  Saturday evening, a severe winter storm moves in and the highs will be like 24 (-5 C) with freezing rain, ice, and snow accumulations from 5-10" (13-25 cm).  And that is why many hold that this part of the country has the most refreshing climate in the world...

   

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