This Is Drivel

Tag: snow

  • ides of March

    Four days ago, I was taking photos of flowers popping up from the leaf litter in neighborhood yards. I didn’t believe it was too good to be true, because there it was, right in front of me, but I was keenly aware we would in all likelihood have to suffer through at least one more… Read.

  • deep freeze

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    Before the weather changed to plunge us into a subzero deep freeze overnight, I had the opportunity to tramp around in the UW-Madison arboretum yesterday while temps were still in the high teens. NOAA said it was 14 deg F but my dashboard thermometer said it was 18 deg F, which somehow seemed, I dunno,… Read.

  • big snow big shoes

    big snow big shoes

    The first big snowfall of the year gave me the motivation to dig my snow shoes out of the corner of the garage where they’d been buried for months, so I could take them to the arboretum and stomp around in the fresh snow — but first, I there was the little matter of clearing… Read.

  • it had to happen

    it had to happen

    Woke up to the first snow of the season clinging to the windows of my minivan. A cold drizzle fell the previous night, so I had to put a lot of elbow grease into scraping it off the windows. I could have let the engine run a while so the defrosters could do their magic… Read.

  • heaped

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    It’s springtime in Wisconsin, and I’m not the first one to say it’s a season fraught with disappointment, nor the first one to say, “Fuck this, I’m moving to New Mexico.” In fact, I’d bet I don’t have anything to say about spring in Wisconsin that hasn’t been said a million times already, but I… Read.

  • a dash of snow

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  • clearing

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    We got enough snow this morning that I had to shovel the driveway and, in spite of being out of shape and just shy of my 62nd birthday I was able to clear away every bit of the heavy, wet snow, even the stuff that the snow plow shoved into the end of the driveway,… Read.

  • first snow 11-15-2022

    We’ve had a little snow fall before. Some of it even stuck for a little while, but this is the first time I’ve woke up to snow falling and still on the ground, so I guess this is it: The official start of winter. Woo-hoo. Read.

  • i give up

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    WHAT THE WHAT Read.

  • new years eve

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    I thought I would have to fire up the snow blower for the first time in 2019 when I woke up in the morning of the very last day of that year to a fresh snowfall. My snow blower’s gasoline engine is reluctant to start after it’s been sitting unused all summer, so I dressed… Read.

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