Blizzard

And I mean blizzard. Right here in Silver City,NM. Snowing like mad, blowing like mad. Juncos and sparrows like pufferfish against the cold on the feeder right outside my floor to ceiling window. I've been splitting wood and stacking it against the coming of this storm--and against the north side of our house. The forecast said the winds would be from the southwest, so I thought the wood would (!) be dry. But no. The winds are from all points of the compass and the wood is snow-covered. The last time I went out to get a load, I took the whisk broom and brushed off the snow, put the piece in the carrier. Before I could get the carrier full, snow was covering the wood again! Boy, am I glad I don't live in a REALLY snowy place.

But it's fun having severe weather warnings/blizzard warnings once a winter. We all like dramatic weather. At least I do. I like the Weather Channel's features on weather phenomena. I like reading books about severe weather stuff--The Perfect Storm (which was not good in movie form--remember at the end that totally fake wave?), Shackleton's Endurance, Scott's lonely trip to the South Pole where he died. I like remembering the tornado in Ogallala, Nebraska, the flash floods of my youth. I don't like fires, though. Much too frightening. Anyway, they're not weather.