Random musings for a winter Sunday afternoon:
In a world of rapidly increasing weather disasters, it seems somehow silly to complain about the weather here, south of Atlatna, today.
It isn’t a monsoon, a blizzard or a hurricane. The temperature isn’t 20 below zero and there are no tornados or tsunamis.
It’s 35 degrees out and raining lightly, just a little too warm to be snowing. It rarely snows here, no more than a handful of times in the 11-plus years since we moved here. I’m pretty sure we’ve never had an accumulation greater than 1-2 inches.
So what’s my complaint? Walking outdoors in nearly freezing rain is sort of stupid. Walking outdoors in lightly falling snow is sort of pleasant, and when it goes back and forth between drizzle and flurries, it’s absolutely maddening.
The picture at the beginning was taken when it started snowing, but of course, light snow photographs basically not at all.
Oh well.
No accumulation.
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It’s odd.
I care very little about the National Football League anymore, and I care nothing at all about the Washington Redsk-, er, Football Team.
But it still makes me happy to see the Dallas Cowboys lose, especially when it’s to one of the teams I covered during my sportswriting days. I covered San Francisco 49ers home games in 1989 when I was working at the Reno Gazette-Journal.
So when the Niners held on to beat Dallas, 23-17, today, it was at least a pleasant feeling.
Do I care who wins the Super Bowl?
Not at all.
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Very little else to say today.