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fabledshadow https://fabledshadow.tumblr.com/ replied to your post “cow” https://bomberqueen17.tumblr.com/post/626017973862285312/cow

I was driving home down a back road and COW appearedfrom the fog in the middle of the road. So i turned on my hazards and shooed them off into the grass. no way to tell which of the many farms nearby they came from so i called the sheriff’s department with the closest address on a mailbox and let them handle it lol

I would’ve done something if I’d been the only nearby motorist but like, I couldn’t even slow down because there were so many people behind me and like, around me, and stuff. And I thought, “someone equipped to deal with this will see it before I find someone equipped to deal with this.”

missbuster https://missbuster.tumblr.com/ replied to your post “cow” https://bomberqueen17.tumblr.com/post/626017973862285312/cow

OOH HOME TIME how long do you get to stay?

I am here until Saturday and have to be back at the farm by Saturday afternoon because Farmkid wants to have A Potluck In The Woods so like. Yeah.

BUT!! Dude’s mom is back from California and quarantining but that means she can cat-sit, so maybe we’ll haul our precious bundle of fur-joy over there and then Dude can come with me to the farm for the week and get away from this house, where he’s been trapped alone since March, so like. Maybe! I get ! to have! a nice! time! for a minute! We’ll see.

And on other notes– I guess the discussion of building me a tiny house has been revived; my eldest nephew is fascinated with tiny houses, and my dad is busy teaching him all kinds of stuff he never taught me. (I’m a bit salty; he “taught” me to weld and do carpentry mostly by showing it and by doing it and letting me help a little but he never really let me do much on those projects? and here the Grandson is getting to actually do, and all these years I just thought my dad wasn’t a great teacher, but no, it’s that he didn’t think a girl could learn. Argh!!! Anyway, I’m not that salty, I probably wasn’t good at learning either, and I’d rather have my nephew learn to build me a house than have to come up with the time to learn how to do it myself.)

So, maybe, maybe I really will eventually wind up with a space? IDK. IDK!

I’m going to spend as much time on the phone with the Dep’t of Labor today as I can spare. Their phone line opens in fifteen minutes and I’ve got the numbers punched in and am going to hit “go” as soon as the clock ticks over. Which is probably counterproductive, but. I’m so tired of being anxious and not knowing.

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Normally I’d do this in batches of related topics or whatever but something I reblogged got a ton of notifications and for some reason Tumblr’s not grouping them together so I had to scroll for three days to get to any notes about any other posts, so like, yikes, sorry, here’s a firehose of everything interesting anyone’s ever said to me. Thanks, Xkit, for allowing reply-replies, but sorry, Dreamwidth peeps, for what an incoherent mess the crossposter makes this into.

msilverstar replied to your post “updates from the middle-aged”

a) sprinklers ≠ whole pool, b) May ≠ August

i mean, fair, but we also had a kiddie pool and we also just sprayed the hose on each other, and it was over 90 yesterday.

akilah12902 replied to your post “UNDERCUT ACHIEVED”

That undercut is just magnetically attractive. I was gonna play the whole game with the long hair but the opening screen kept TAUNTING me and I went undercut and haven’t changed it since.

I can’t get over it, it’s sort of horrifying to me what a difference it makes for me. I have to re-evaluate myself in ways I wasn’t prepared for.

missbuster replied to your post “updates from the middle-aged”

Uhhh. Remember it’s still May and snowed like three weeks ago so the large bodies of water + water tables are still frigid

I mean, fair, but, I did this in spring as a kid. I have noticed that the temperature of the water at my parents’ house doesn’t vary seasonally, but the municipal water supplies in Buffalo and Rochester absolutely do, which is super weird

waxscoralpants eplied to your post “updates from the middle-aged”

My mom used to fill our kiddie pool and then boil several kettles of water to dump in. What a sweet gesture, in retrospect

awww!!!

Last night I emptied the muddy water and refilled the pools with clean water, so that it could be at least ambient temperature this afternoon. Of course, having done that, it’ll be rainy and we won’t play outside, but we need the rain so it was all really kind of a ploy to exploit Murphy’s law.

akilah12902 replied to your post “updates from the middle-aged”

HOW ON EARTH, AS THE SKINNIEST DARN KID, I EVER MANAGED TO LIVE WITH HOSE WATER

Right?? I was a lil beanpole too!!

I really remember our fingernails and lips being blue and our mom making us stop playing

saffronheliotrope replied to your post “mouths of babes vol 749”

My 2yo was EXTREMELY AFFRONTED when I started wearing shorts and he encountered my sting hairs. Sorry, kiddo. Shaving in a quarantine is *all done hands*

STING HAIRS. She re-shaved yesterday, the fool– I was like no that’s your protective layer, and she just laughed.

mikkeneko replied to your post “Extra Dad Jokes”

So of the pig farmer, the military logistics, and the party-planner, which was the one you would ask to hide a body and which one got offended?

The pig farmer! Who, in retrospect, is also super-intense and competitive, so IDK why I didn’t see that coming except I fully expected her to be like “I have a business, I can’t risk the cops involving themselves!” and she was like HOW DARE U. She’s super ruthless but also ride or die and how dare I forget that.

bittylildragon replied to your post “Extra Dad Jokes”

Oh man, Lambert’s Tragic Dead Boyfriend Revenge Quest and Geralt’s ‘you smell wonderful at this funeral’ line AND his dad jokes all in one evening

It was really a pretty magical evening.

missbuster replied to your post “Extra Dad Jokes”

For the first time in my life my house is getting central air too. I cannot fucking wait.

Oh I know, man. But my dude got the first quote and sent me this bitmoji of himself (the bitmoji looks a lot more like Cary Elwes than Dude actually does, for the record):

[image description: bitmoji cartoon of green-eyed white blond man with a moustache and goatee making a dead-eyed open-mouthed grin while flinging green bills of US currency over his shoulder with wild abandon]

but i mean, the furnace is from the late 70s or early 80s and has to Go, so

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missbuster replied to your post “weird little real-life updates”

The musical life updates (and snurgling the dog!) sound lovely and it’s fantastic you are getting new doors. Are you in this current weather that’s tearing a strip off Kingston and Area? We might get the most snowfall we’ve had all season in the next 24 hours. o_o

I saw this and sort of chuckled yesterday because it rained all day but this morning i woke at four and haven’t been able to get back to sleep and wandered out into my living room and through the larger window in my brand-new front door I noticed a weird quality to the light, and so I went and peered out and was like

oh that’s a bunch of snow, huh

so. I guess so. We haven’t had to shovel our driveway yet this year. I mean, we have done so; we’ve snowblowed once, and I shoveled it one evening because it wasn’t that much but it was supposed to get real cold and I didn’t want to have a gross sheet of lumpy ice for two weeks, so. But anyway we’ve for sure got like five inches or more out there now and still coming.

Plow went by like quarter after 4 so at least they’re on the ball.

I’m bummed, I’d thought about playing hooky from work and doing some housecleaning and bread-baking and such but I feel like i can’t call in when it’s snowy and gross because my coworker’s got a half-hour commute and mine is literally three to five minutes, so.

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gnefariousgnorcreplied to your post“god damn it”

loooooooool but you’re right, I don’t know the ship name either, damn

people are tagging it with a boring mashup but i guess that works. Geraskier. Boring! Cmon can’t we have something fun like buttergrump or witchercup or something? only i guess they call him dandelion not buttercup so that’s less amusing. Fine fine fine we just do squishnames in modern fandom, I just won’t tag it, LOL. (I’ll use the AO3 relationship tags.)

magickedteacup replied to your post“god damn it”

>:D

I don’t think people will be upset, but I am a little self-conscious that I started the story off tagged with an & relationship tag for them. Whoops!

missbuster replied to your post “god damn it”

ONLY ONE BED OH NO

See and I started off the scene with Jaskier perfectly aware that there was only one bed and genuinely not being concerned because he and Geralt had shared beds so many times over the years, and being quite blasé about the whole thing. Here I thought I was subverting a trope!!

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missbuster replied to your post “photos”

I really like this photo! Is a husk cherry like a gooseberry?

No, not in the slightest! I am not super familiar with gooseberries but a cursory Google suggests they don’t have husks. Husk cherries are related to tomatillos, and grow inside papery husks just like tomatillos do.

They don’t really taste like cherries, but they do taste sweet.

thesacredreznor replied to your post “photos”

Oh husk cherries! The farm I briefly worked on grew those and I found them fascinating since I’d never seen one before. Weird lil things.

They’re so odd. They grow them at the farm, in the picking garden because they’re not worth the labor of harvesting, but kids especially love to pick them. The best way to harvest them is actually to wait for them to fall, and then crawl around and pick them up– and that’s just how it works in the picking garden, the kids come twice a week and then Farmkid keeps it tidy in between because she loves picking them up and eating them.

They’re not a viable commercial crop in the US but I wonder if they’re in more demand in Iceland, whether for climate reasons– they grow there, or can be imported more easily, or whatever– or because culturally they’re more called-for? I don’t know. Most Americans don’t know what they are, and I wouldn’t if it weren’t for the farm’s picking garden.

They were garnishes, rather than a main part of any dish– in one drink, and as a decorative side touch on an appetizer at a different restaurant. I have trouble imagining any restaurant sparing the labor to shuck a lot of them to put in any kind of dish.

They’re not very strongly flavored, they’re sort of bland I think, but they look super cool.

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missbuster replied to your post “baking”

is piragi = perogi?

Nope, not remotely– a Latvian standby, aka speķrauši which I can’t pronounce like at all (that k with a comma under it is like a high “chi” sort of noise? idk man), which means “fat meat pies”, which I love as a literal translation. They are made of dough wrapped around a filling, but they are leavened, and are baked with an eggwash. They’re rolls, really.

I didn’t post a photo of them finished, did I? Oh no I forgot to!

[image description: foreground is the baguettes, middle is the caraway seed rolls, background is a horde of piragi in serried ranks.]

maimysantiago99 reblogged your post and added:

You can FREEZE YEAST?!?!!

Yeah, dry you can– it’s just a good way to keep it more stable. My sister’s been doing it for years, you get the giant Bob’s Red Mill or other bulk package of it, and you keep most of it in the freezer. I’ve still been keeping a little jar in the fridge but honestly I don’t even think that’s necessary, I think you can just use it straight out of the freezer. It’s dry and inert anyway, why not be dry and inert in a colder, more stable environment with fewer temperature fluctuations?

I Googled it and no less a source than the kitchn backs me up, tho they recommend sealing it in a jar. idk why, the plastic bag rolled up good and tight seems to have even less air in it than a jar would? but why not. i’ll put it in a jar at some point.

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deputychairman replied to your post “oh a mystery”

Please report back, I wanna know as badly as you do now!

missbuster replied to your post “oh a mystery”

Aww I wish I sent you something just for the DRAMA but I’m not that organized. My best/lady friend and I send Xmas packages to each other in august

Ah, I just remembered now while I was refreshing my email to find out if it had been dropped off at the pickup thing yet, that it’s totally something quotidian that I had ordered and then forgot about. (It’s a dumb but still appreciated work bonus thing that it always takes them like ten weeks to process so I did it so long ago I forgot it was even a thing.)

I guess I’m glad I didn’t let myself work up a good head of What Is This Delightful Mystery steam.

But I’m sort of annoyed that Dude couldn’t just be like, no f’real, it isn’t me, because I still could have been like Oh A Mystery but maybe less getting-ones-hopes-up, y’know?

Phooey. Well, then, maybe I do need to buy myself something extravagant and then go to great lengths to forget I’ve ordered it so that it turns up and I can convince myself it was a secret admirer.

(I expect a real secret admirer would be awkward so I don’t actually wish for one; I have plenty of Things and plenty of people who like me. It’s just, you know. A mystery. It is not a mystery. Alas.)

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gnefariousgnorc replied to your post “I updated on Dreamwidth with some of what’s been up lately (Rochester,…”

yay flax! growing and processing flax and spinning and weaving linen is a super ambitious questline of mine! I have some grinding to do first though.

missbuster replied to your post “I updated on Dreamwidth with some of what’s been up lately (Rochester,…”

I’d like to know what happens to the flax after it’s been cut and… laid down? Does it soak?

(replying to both at the bottom because interspersing plays merry hell with formatting)

I love linen so much, but I don’t know how to weave at all, and I barely know how to spin, and yet. And yet! Attainable things, perhaps? Who knows how far I’ll get in this new-ish hobby.

I also took up papermaking as a hobby, ostensibly, because I want to use the not-suitable-for-spinning waste material in papermaking because that’s apparently a desirable thing to use. I cannot find much information about doing that, though, and I have yet to actually do any papermaking at home. So…

So the process for flax is basically: 1) grow it, 2) pull it up, 3) let it dry (this is where I am; it’s in sheaves, upright), 4) “ripple” it to remove the seed pods, 5) ret it, which can be done either by letting it lie in the field or on a lawn to be repeatedly wetted by the dew and dried by the sun, OR by submerging it in either still or running water; the former method is slower but apparently better-quality in the end, and the latter is faster and more controllable, and then 6) brake it (physically beat it to break up the outer layer of the straw), 7) scutch it (scrape it to pull off the broken outer layer, 8) hackle/heckle it to comb the remnants of the straw off of the “line”, or interior bast fiber of the stalk. Then you can spin it and weave it.

I have done basically none of this before but I’ve watched demonstrations in the past, so. *shrug* here’s hoping!

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missbuster replied to your post “beach towels”

Omg I love Theirs and Theirs. I will mention this to my poly clump family and they will probably adore it too.

I thought it was rather clever, lol.

millicentthecat replied to your post “beach towels”

my dude wears lands end too! that and ll bean

Right? Right?

I don’t wear them as much as I used to, growing up. Dude won’t wear LL Bean because their tall sizes are cut strangely for his proportions. I’ve grown weary of how Land’s End upcharges for plus sizes (why is a simple tank top $8.99 for regular and petite but $11.99 for plus or tall? oh it’s every garment? and like $20 extra for a raincoat 3″ wider? fuck y’all, but at least they do it to men too), and paradoxically claims “for Every Body” while offering rather a limited range actually. The problem with that last one is not that I can’t understand why a fashion company would draw limits on what they can cater to, but rather that their claim to total inclusivity is so confusing that I was tormented, as a teenager, by my mother’s inability to understand that I did not fit in their inclusive sizing, and this translated to both her and I sincerely believing that it was literally impossible that my body was that radically non-standard a size. Whereas if they’d just said “sizes up to DDD”, I don’t feel like I would have been quite so affected? I mean, at that point, there were literally zero companies selling any larger-than-DDD cup sizes anywhere either of us had ever encountered, so you could somewhat forgive us for genuinely not understanding that the sizing was to blame, not that my body was somehow contravening laws of physics. I genuinely used to think it was my fault and I was doing something wrong, somehow; I don’t know what I could possibly have been doing to make a swimsuit be the wrong size for me, but I was so ashamed and convinced I was somehow at fault, it really did a number on me. (In frustration my mother, an accomplished seamstress, attempted to make me a swimsuit, but the pattern companies also only had sizing up to D, and so she tried to just, add a little bit of fabric to it, and added like, a quarter inch, and I needed about four or five inches, and so it was a horrible failure that involved me flashing at least one or two of my siblings, and she didn’t say she blamed me, but it all sort of vanished and was never mentioned again, so, I just sank deeper into my conviction that I was some kind of laws-of-physics-contravening freak, instead of just… when I went to the UK a year or two later and they sized me at a department store and put me into an F and I was like there are more fucking letters and no one told me???? Yeah, Land’s End, fuck you, there are more fucking letters, and maybe it was okay to say “every body” in 1999 but it is 2019 and everyone knows the alphabet keeps going now.)

So I super hate Land’s End’s swimsuits, like unreasonably a lot. But obviously I’m so whipped I still fucking buy from them because listen that’s just the national dress of our demographic, whatever that is.

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missbuster replied to your post “My new non-vegan annoyance on behalf of vegans is people chuckling at…”

K-J and other prion diseases can take a decade or more to manifest symptoms.

See, I knew that, but for some reason I thought that meant I was in the clear after a decade. I mean… it’s over 20 years now, but. I’m told some of the non-Red Cross blood donation joints would take my blood, but I’m honestly sort of relieved not to feel pressured to donate because I hate doing it, I lose blood pressure and pass out and it’s very exhausting. But I’m Type O so I grew up thinking I always should.

But I’m off the hook. Thanks, Mad Cow!

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missbuster replied to your post “weekend errands”

This sounds like Great Lakes Gothic to me.

yeah, that does sum it up, doesn’t it.

I got my laundry hung out today, no problem, but I had to do it in galoshes because it’s three inches of mud in that yard at the moment. Makes laundry a little higher-stakes; if you drop anything you don’t even get a second, it’s got to go straight back in the wash if it so much as brushes against the ground.

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notbecauseofvictories replied to your post “a research question”

Oh, hey, the US Council of Bishops and Notre Dame did a survey in 2011: http://www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/cultural-diversity/african-american/demographics/parishes-with-a-strong-black-catholic-presence.cfm

notbecauseofvictories replied to your post “a research question”

Some Catholic Churches offer the liturgy in Spanish, I would try seeking out those churches first. Also, I know that Chicago and Philly (at least) have offices/programs that reach out to the Latinx and Black Catholic communities in their respective archdioceses. If your friend is in a metropolitan area, they might have something similar.

chippanfire replied to your post “a research question”

I guess my very international minded white Irish Catholic family is unusual. Several jesuit uncles, growing up knowing about Óscar Romero… Is offline friend after local congregations?

sizequeen1 replied to your post “a research question”

Try Haitian churches. They tend to be Catholic.

missbuster replied to your post “a research question”

I think you do the difficult thing and contact the churches individually saying you are conducting research and would like to document members of colour. I am not a churchgoer at all so I would be honest about my intentions and my lack of knowledge.

These are all great answers. Thanks, guys!!

(I was aware of the more international aspects of the Catholic Church myself, too! but Dude had like, zero clue. In his defense, I guess, many of the Latinxs in this city are Puerto Ricans who’ve gone into the Pentecostal church, so most of the brown folks he knows are in fact not Catholic. I guess I can see how that’d confuse matters in his understanding.)

My friend is actually looking for more specific subgroupings, people with specific experiences, for this project, but he figures he’s got to generally find the Catholic people of color first and then once he’s found them he can kind of drill down and look for the specific things he’s trying to focus on. (More generally– he’s been doing portrait projects for a long time and while he shoots pretty widely, he has tended to take more photos of people of color in his wider practice, so this is not as strange as my description is making it sound. He has a beautiful Instagram full of portraits somewhere, I should find it and link it.)

The awkwardness is somewhat allayed, I think, by him being a man of color himself, and of a Catholic upbringing too; if I walked up and was like SO WHERE DO THE BROWN FOLKS GO TO CHURCH ROUND THESE PARTS EH it would be alarming and kind of gross, but if he’s like, uh hey guys, it’s a lot less weird. (He’s also a pretty charismatic guy, so he probably could just be like “So where do brown people live, around here” and it wouldn’t be creepy. I have trouble envisioning it but I have confidence he could do it.)

He’s got a few leads in as well, to the specific things he’s looking for, but he’s casting his net very broadly– he’s started off in Syracuse, and has been looking into New York City, and cities in Massachusetts, and– all over, really. So.
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missbuster replied to your post “vortex schmortex”

I’m living in the country this winter and I just ordered snowshoes for walking the dogs. I don’t have the in-town adventures you have but we do share the same weather bubble quite often so

ms-daphne replied to your post “vortex schmortex”

@missbuster snowshoes are THE BEST THING. Global warming has given my place 4 months of rain followed by 2 months of sleet and I miss actual snow so much. It’s so quiet when it snows.

[my [B’s] response, which I’m bracketing so the buggy crossposter can figure out who’s talking]: Yeah I wish I had some, I grew up using snowshoes sometimes, and actually Farmsister had some she used to walk to class in Cornell (at one point in her undergrad career she slipped on the ice in those fucking gorges so badly her femur broke her tibia, so that was pretty fucking intense). Normally, I’m on sidewalks, so there’s no point to snowshoes and they’d actually just get in the way.

My mom tried to give me her YakTrax when I was visiting a couple of weeks ago, which are those metal mesh studs you pull on over your shoes for better grip, but I turned them down because even icy concrete is really mostly concrete, and I just feel like I’d wear the trax out fast because the ice isn’t thick or omnipresent enough. Mom uses hers to walk three miles from home to her office in the town hall.

But man. I said I’d get in there today, and it’s.. well, it’s 4 now, and it’ll drop to 0 in the next couple hours, and it’s coming down hard, we’ve had about a foot, and it’s going to continue until 1pm.

With the snow, I feel like it’d be easier to walk than to try to free my car. (The plows haven’t been down my road since yesterday, and clearly, school is canceled, there’s no traffic, so who knows what kind of snow removal we’re gonna get today.) But with the cold, and the fact that literally nobody is going to have plowed, it’s likely to be an exhausting walk.

However! It being an exhausting walk means I sure won’t be too cold. As long as I’ve got no exposed skin, I’m likely to be safe enough.

I just have to get there, and I only have a couple of hours of work to do.

*sigh* I wish my bosses gave hazard pay. But, better this than the old location, where it was seven miles each way and the official policy was that we’d close if there was a driving ban but in practice that meant that employees often were expected to be there until the ban was enacted, and then were unable to leave. (That was the old boss; he literally made a guy sleep over in the store rather than letting him leave safely. To man a retail store! to which customers couldn’t come! because it wasn’t safe! it was fucking stupid. I hope the kid stayed clocked in all night.)

Anyhow this is me: I’m right in the middle between where it says “Buffalo” and “Tonawanda”, and I gotta walk through that beautiful gif at some point. Sigh.
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salamanderinspace replied to your post “additional points on the toilet monster from my earlier post: at this…”

I did not know this could happen omg

WELCOME TO HELL

missbuster

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“additional points on the toilet monster from my earlier post: at this…”

A rat came through my friend’s basement toilet and she had to lock it in the bathroom until her husband could kill it. Turns out in Halifax there’s no backflow valves to keep animals in the sewers, which used to be directly open to the ocean/storm drains

AAAAGHHHH

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“additional points on the toilet monster from my earlier post: at this…”

I lifted the lid of my upstairs toilet to find a dead starling. That was rather alarming, so yeah, things getting in via the U-bend (or even the vent and then the U-bend) does happen.

AAIIIEIEEERRGHHGHGH

Although, I have found enough dead starlings in enough strange places to suspect that their superpowers of annoyance include phasing through solid matter. it’s really incredible, the places those fucking things will get into, just to die. I’d never considered a toilet, but then, they might as well, right? ARGH.

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“additional points on the toilet monster from my earlier post: at this…”

this is mostly at random, but in the house i lived in as a smol, we used to get quite large snakes just… chilling in the pantry or the kitchen or the loo.

Mmm hmm yeah ok sure so like here’s the thing, every winter when the weather gets shitty everyone’s like why do humans live in this climate and occasionally I wonder that too and then I’m like oh right no giant snakes that’s why so I’m really glad we could have this little chat so I could remember why i live in this terrible terrible climate. Like, maybe my skin hurts from just going outside but snakes are tiny shy things that hide from you and have no teeth and hibernate half the year, so.
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missbuster replied to your post “oo we’ve got thundersnow! originally my neighborhood was in the 1-3″…”

THUNDERSNOW SOUNDS SO AWESOME!!!! I had to drive 1.5 hours north into the wilderness with no snow tires so let’s see how I get home when that snow crosses the border and gets to Lake Ontario’s north shore.

Thundersnow is really eerie, mostly. You know how loud thunderstorms are, with the rain and the rumbling and the wind and all? Thundersnowstorms are weirdly muffled. Snow is silent, and also muffles everything, so the thunder kind of rumbles and thumps distantly even if it’s really nearby, and even the wind is muted, and it’s just. Foreboding and weird.

The first time I saw it was– well, you used to just be able to say The October Storm, but it was 2006 so it’s kind of outside of people’s memories now, but there was a huge freakish storm in mid-October of 2006 in Buffalo that took down the entire power grid for… three to seven days, I think? And it was a violent thundersnow storm and the sky was green and you didn’t know if it was lightning or another transformer exploding, because the trees had leaves so the storm took them down onto power lines, and it was wet heavy snow and sometimes it was enough clinging to the lines themselves to take them down, and long story short 600,000 people were without power for a week, and in my social circles you still can make idle conversation by bringing it up and getting people’s crazy stories of how they survived it and what they did for the week following. (It happened during the day, too, so tons of people got trapped at work. I did! I was at the airport then, bartending, and the buses stopped running and my dude made a heroic journey to get me as they were slapping the travel ban in place. I’d just ordered Martha Wells’ Fall of Ile-Rien trilogy from Amazon and it had arrived and I had to dig it out of the snow by my door and then I read it by candlelight in the bay window of Dude’s mom’s house as we gathered there for warmth and baked everything from the freezer for an excuse to have the gas oven on so we wouldn’t freeze.)

I don’t think that snowstorm hit Ontario? I hope this one didn’t and you made it home.

I got home last night and Dude had left work early and was shoveling the walk. I had a bike light on the front of my backpack and used it to show him where the starter cord for the snowblower was, and so he got that running, and I went inside and did the damn dishes instead.

This morning I see the snow was mostly over when I got home last night, there’s not much more on the walk after we shoveled it out. I guess I’ll see if anyone shovels their walks this morning– but our accumulation was only maybe three or four inches, so it’s not as bad as last time, I should be fine schlepping through it.
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