But everybody's doing it

[anigo]

My humble abode.

Jeeze, I never realized I was surrounded by so much wood.

http://pics.livejournal.com/anigo/gallery/000021a2

In other news, it's frickin' cold here today. It was a balmy 12 yesterday and now it's -8. There wasn't any fire in the woodstove last night and I'm frozen. This morning when I tried to light the fire the chimney was cold and I got wondrous backdraft and a rec-room full of smoke. I opened all the doors and windows to clear out the smoke and let the wondrous -8 air in. So now I'm colder. But I did manage to get a fire going so it will warm up eventually. We do have electric heat, but the wood stove gives of such a nice cozy heat.

Further to the weather, there's another blizzard on the way...

A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM DEVELOPING OFF THE AMERICAN SEABOARD WILL INTENSIFY AS IT TRACKS NORTHEASTWARD THIS AFTERNOON. THIS STORM WILL APPROACH THE MARITIMES THIS EVENING AND ITS PATH IS FORECAST TO CROSS CAPE BRETON ON MONDAY. VERY STRONG WINDS ALONG WITH HEAVY SNOWFALL GIVING BLIZZARD CONDITIONS ARE FORECAST TO BEGIN THIS EVENING AND TO PERSIST INTO MONDAY MORNING FOR MOST AREAS OF NOVA SCOTIA.


Can you Americans please KEEP the low pressure systems that you develop?
S'funny. I remember historically getting maybe 3 blizzards in my entire life and a couple of the tail ends of hurricanes - no real hurricanes, just lots of wind and rain. In the past 2 years we've had one category 3 hurricane and three blizzards. Does nobody else find this odd? I suspect if we get the 40 cms of snow that they're calling for I will be working from home tomorrow, which kind of sucks because I'm SO far behind and I've left all my files at work. Hey, but maybe school will be canceled. Which kind of sucks too, actually, because I'm going to TO next week and will miss that class. That'll mean 2 classes in a row. Oh well. I am SO not into this class. A pass will do me just fine. Who cares about an A average.

There's a guy in Halifax who is trying to get everybody here prepared for the next time a Tsunami hits Nova Scotia. Um... To the best of my understanding of plate tectonics, we're in a pretty darn stable area. Now, I'm not saying it won't happen, but Jeeze, aren't there other things we can be alarmist about?

Ok, I'm done. I'm going to go get into the shower and don multiple layers of fleece.

Comments

[fyremaven.livejournal.com]

Gina, those pictures are so neat! i LOVE your house! it's open and airy and clean.
i also love how you simply took a picture of your kids room without picking up her toys! now THAT'S refreshing.

a couple of questions (if it's ok)...is that a mandolin i see in the living room? who plays it? are both you AND your hubby musical people? and i like the boat on your mantle. very much YOU.

we tried to keep our low front (or high pressure thingie) here but it left. it's too big to control, so there you go. and i think you're right about the tsunami deal. you probably wont get one; and neither will we.

of course half of california will snap off and form an island, but that's ok.
:)

[anigo.livejournal.com]

Well thank you! I was thinking the exact same thing about your place. That, and you have a hell of a lot of palm trees.

Yes, it's a mandolin. I play it, he plays the electric guitar on the other side.

framlingem, if you look really really carefully you can see my bodhran behind the brown chair by the fireplace. Ok, well, see that black thingie? Right there in the "v" under the arm of the chair? That's it.

The living room is very "me". That's why there are no toys allowed in there. It's my space. (I guess the computer room is too, but that doesn't count). In the corner by where I took the picture there's a whole shelf full of plants and sailboats. Maybe I'll take a picture of that. (Ok, I since have.) The stones in the bowl on the table are from a beach in PEI that we used to camp on a lot when we were kids - not far from where my mother grew up. The candlesticks are actually bobbins from an old wool carding place not far from the beach. The picture that tigermorph gave me is in here too, above the love seat on the left hand side.

Jeebs, I do ramble on, don't I.

Just think how much better it will be when you're an island. You'll be vacation paradise then. People will really think of California as "getting away from it all".

[siliconshaman.livejournal.com]

Beautiful place ! I mean it looks like something out of a magazine [only more lived in and home-y] although I have to say, all those grey walls would drive me batshit crazy! [but to each their own].

Hmm, I'll have to add a few more pictures to my gallery, so you can see the other rooms of the house. That'll have to wait until we get some sunshine though, my camera is crap in lowlight.

Oh, and you know how those north atlantic depressions that you keep getting from America...
would you mind not passing them on to us please !

[anigo.livejournal.com]

Wull, thank you! (I think)

They're more Batshit Taupe than Batshit Grey, but like you said, to each his own. I find them rather soothing, though I am starting to find them getting a bit monotonous in the bedroom.

[siliconshaman.livejournal.com]

Hey, look at it this way, you now have walls that are the perfect color for painting seascape murals on them!