The three-day weekend is over, and we’re still facing this (that’s degrees Fahrenheit):
Fortunately, it will start warming up tomorrow, with highs even exceeding the freezing point by the weekend. I won’t go into detail on “This Day in History” as I’m late, but Wikipedia has this for January 19:
- 1977 – Snow falls in Miami. This is the only time in the history of the city that snow has fallen. It also fell in The Bahamas.
That must have been something! Meanwhile in Dobrzyn, I’m told that it’s too cold for Hili to go out for long, and she comes in within a half hour after her romp in the snow:
Cyrus: Let’s go to the river.
Hili: Go by yourself. I would rather stay home and read something.
In Polish:
Cyrus: Idziemy nad rzekę?
Hili: Idź sam, ja raczej coś sobie poczytam w domu.
And lagniappe, another version of “Pavlov’s Cat”, sent by reader jsp:
You are late at 4:44 AM?
Yes! What time do you call this? Disgraceful!
🙂
Edgar Allan Poe’s birthday 1809…
A little snow west of Chicago but not so cold.
Looks like a cover or cloth over the steps at Hili’s place. Maybe to shake the snow off?
It’s a cloth. The steps were very slippery, no sand was available and salt is out of the question – neither vegetation nor animals’ paws like salt. The cloth was a solution. Works perfectly.
Good Idea. Falling on ice and snow is the number one thing to avoid. I would get you some sand at the river but it is frozen too.
This time of year there is grit and salt on our roads and its hard to avoid on our walks with Maggie. So, I’ve adapted with d*g booties:
https://dogbooties.com/
A little too warm here. Overnight low of ~5 degrees F turned into a daytime high of ~61 F. If we’re very lucky, we might be getting some precip today with our 41-degree projected high. Then another warming trend. Spooky-warm.
We lived just outside Miami in 1977 when I was in 6th grade, and I remember that snow. At school it had stuck on metal picnic tables outside as a thin covering. I was able to scrap up enough for one snowball, but I don’t remember who I threw it at. Maybe Junior Barnes. That summer we moved to Chicago.
I am currently in London ON doing a short teaching stint – hence missing summer in New Zealand. I seem to be the only person who wants another 20 cm of snow and something like -20C to get the full winter experience!
Cats do a superlative job at training their servants….
b&
Well, let me help: Edgar Allan Poe Was born in 1809 (he died on 7 October 1849); in 1973, the American League adopted the designated hitter rule and in 1968, film critic Gene Shalit started growing his mustache.