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[katallison]

It's snowing. So far just lots of pretty swirling flakes dampening the ground, though we could get a couple of inches by evening. Which won't stick around--still too warm--but it's the opening salvo. Must get back on my horse and resume the probably-doomed search for a new long down coat that doesn't make me look a pastel marshmallow.

*Very* pretty snow; very dense in the air, so that, as I look out the window, the entire world appears to have been slightly pixelated and greyscaled.

In other items of no interest, how the hell did it get to be Monday??

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[jackiekjono.livejournal.com]

It's starting to stick to the sidewalks now. I'll have to shovel whenI get home.

[vickita.livejournal.com]

In other items of no interest, how the hell did it get to be Monday??


My question is: how the hell did it get to be November?

[aerye.livejournal.com]

It's snowing.

Ohhhhh. ::whimper::

[imkalena.livejournal.com]

You can get a nice full-length down coat from Land's End that will make you look like a black or khaki marshmallow. I tried to get a burgundy one from LL Bean last year, but it was apparently the last one in my size, and it got lost somewhere in the bowels of Fed Ex in Edina. I ended up getting an ice-green one from Land's End; it was cheaper than dirt ($100) and I love the color. I decided I'd be damned if I was going to walk around all winter wearing black. I'd much rather be pastel.

[laurashapiro.livejournal.com]

Dang, someone beat me to the punch! I was going to suggest Land's End myself. In addition to having good, reasonably priced products, they have good labor standards, too. Lots of their stuff is made in the US, and what isn't conforms to a reasonable set of rules.

[shayheyred.livejournal.com]

How bizarre that it's snowing where you are and it hit 81 today here in Washington D.C., where I am for a few days. A weather map looks like the country was cut in half. Does this have something to do with solar flares?

[(Anonymous)]

From lurker-at-work--no account. (I really enjoy the journal, by the way, Kat, and the fiction--I'm a Cat too, more or less, and came here a year or so back by way of Lynn.)

Weather map: couldn't resist the opportunity to put in my plug for awareness of global warming. Major newspapers just love to point out a single flake of snow in New York, or two days of cold weather, as signs that it isn't really happening, ignoring the melting of ice caps and the ever-diminishing quantites of snow in, say, Alaska. Or they say, "Wow! ANOTHER year of El Nino! Who woulda thunk?" But what's been happening the past few years is textbook global warming: not heat waves everywhere or a universal two-degree rise, but more precipitation falling in violent weather events, more swings from hot to cold and back, more Ninos and Ninas, slightly more "unseasonable" weather of all kinds, longer droughts in dry places, longer wet spells in wet places. Our unseasonably cool, wet summer back east seems like it should defy global warming theory, but if anything it rather tends to confirm it; likewise the 80-degree November days in DC and the four-year droughts in Afghanistan. Alas! Time to storm the White House and demand our Kyoto Treaty back.

--Catherine

[lattara.livejournal.com]

May I friend you?

::makes offerings of chocolate::

[(Anonymous)]

Me?

Never refuse chocolate! I'm not live-journal-savvy enough to know exactly what friending involves, though--is it to do with acquiring an identity?

[lattara.livejournal.com]

It's actually only something you can do to someone who has a LJ - but if you ever get one, I'm game!

::sends you chocolate::