Yep, woke up, made a fresh pot, snagged a donut and my smokes this morning and stepped outside.
Fuuuuuuck, that.
It’s a sheet of ice out there.
Finished my smoke, came inside and I ain’t even going to TRY and go anywhere out in that mess.
I hope everyone is safe and warm.
Hunker down and wait it out.
Because we aren’t going anywhere, anytime soon.
That isn’t snow.
It’s Freezing Rain.
For those fortunate enough to have never experienced it, count your blessings.
It was plenty cold here all day, down in the low 20’s.
About 8 this evening, the moisture came in. It’s still warm enough up a little higher that it comes down as rain. The ground however, is so cold that the second it hits, it turns to ice.
So that shot looking down the street is basically looking at a skating rink.
Last I saw, it’s supposed to do this off and on all night long. It may or may not turn to snow at some point. It’s also supposed to do some of both almost all day tomorrow too. Then the temps are supposed to shoot up and it will all melt away by Christmas Eve.
If you want to believe the weather people.
They have such a great track record ya know.
Either way, I see no damn good reason to even go out and scrape the windshield tomorrow.
I’m not going anywhere.
I’m sure I’ll make it although it’s colder than a witches tit outside.
Don’t know about anyone else but I am very much looking forward to doing my best imitation of a bump on a log for the next four days after I get home tonight.
Me and the Wifely Unit both caught something around the beginning of the month and it has been kicking our asses non stop ever since.
She finally wound up at Urgent Care after she had made a doctors appointment and the fuckers cancelled it without telling her.
She tested negative for Covid but had a bad case of Bronchitis, which hasn’t really let up much. I’m thinking closer to Walking Pneumonia but Dammit Jim, I’m a Mechanic, not a Doctor.
She has been especially crabby because she can’t even have a cigarette without coughing uncontrollably and the steroids they gave her don’t seem to be doing much.
Whatever I’ve had has just sucked the life clear out of me.
Zero energy to do any fucking thing and it seems to keep going back and forth from my chest to my sinuses. Damn ear is all plugged up and the gland in my throat got so sore and swole up that I could hardly swallow or turn my head.
I came home yesterday, dropped my lunch box, took off my coat and my boots and fell into the recliner. After hearing some bitching about me sleeping too much lately, I slipped some ear plugs in and went to sleep right in the chair. I woke up at 9:30 and went to bed.
Thankfully she was smart enough not to wake my ass up for once.
She hasn’t got home yet tonight so we shall see what goes on but I am here to tell ya that I ain’t in the mood to hear a bunch of bitching. About anything.
The weather is supposed to get colder than a well digger’s ass starting tonight so we are supposed to go get groceries. Friday is supposed to be downright ugly. Cold, freezing rain, snow, who knows what all.
I’m hoping to be snuggled up inside all damn day.
Fuck that shit. No need to be out in it for no good reason.
It would be real nice not to be sickly for Christmas but at this point I’m not holding my breath.
Except maybe hook that sumbitch up to an air hammer.
This looks ugly.
Very ugly.
I just watched another forecast video and that guy was predicting wind chill temperatures of MINUS 50 degrees across almost all of the Central Plains, Upper Midwest and even clear into Kentucky having negative temps in the 20’s.
Upper Texas is likely to get blasted again too.
Be smart, get ready for this.
Went to the family Christmas party this afternoon,
After over 55 years of these things, Santa still smells like Whiskey.
It’s kind of comforting in a way.
I laughed because couldn’t tell you how many times I did this.
