Good Bye 2007!
New Year’s Eve 2007, 1:30 pm: Lots of snow today and it keeps on coming down. I thought I should get off my duff and actually write a blog. I’ve become irretrievably lazy as opposed to irretrievably broken, which means I would have been discarded.
Our trip to Augusta and Togus went smoothly. We saw a moose on the drive down and on the return trip, a bald eagle sitting atop a large pine tree in the median on I-95 a few miles south of the off-ramp to Medway. He politely ignored us while I tried and failed to get a photograph. Digital cameras don’t always compensate for operator error. We made it home about 4:00 pm and fortunately for us it started to snow just a few minutes after we unloaded our car. It seems it has been snowing ever since. I did buy a pretty cool two CD box set celebrating 50 years of Stax records.
My timing is off today. I was out with our snowblower about noon clearing our driveway and walkways, and of course our town’s snow plow came down our road about an hour after I finished. Unsuccessfully I tried to outwait him so I don’t have to redo part of our driveway. I lost - go figure that out. We’re a one snow plow town.
In any event: Guten Rutsch ins Neue Jahr!
Current values from our wireless Davis Vantage-Pro weather station:
Temperature: 19.1° [F.], -7.2° [C.]
Barometer: 29.731 & falling rapidly
Humidity: 82%
Wind: Calm
Visibility: < ½ mile – snowing
Skies: 100% low overcast
Precipitation: ca. 4 inches of snow
Since midnight:
Low temperature: 10.8° [F.]
High wind: 3 mph at 10:38 am