Snowy Thursday Rambly Bits

[gnomi]

-- Today we have snow. Again. Numbers I'm seeing right now indicate that we got somewhere around another 9 or so inches. Which is not such a large snowfall for our area, in general. Problem is, there's nowhere to *put* the snow when you clear it off roads/sidewalks/stairs/driveways due to the lingering snow from the last storm (and the storm before that... the storm before *that* melted when we had a couple of days in the low 40s).

-- We continued the flow of objects in the Great Clothing (and Stuff) Continuum by passing along a baby swing that has been, for Muffin and Squeaker, just an oddity in the living room/play room for about eight months. I have mixed feelings when we do this -- I feel good, knowing that I am letting another family get the enjoyment of the use of the item, but at the same time I feel nostalgic about when our girls used it.

-- Last night, thanks to the kindness of a friend willing to babysit, mabfan and I met Mike Brown, the discoverer of Eris (and killer of Pluto). mabfan has a write-up of our evening.

-- Earlier this week, when the low temperature in Boston was -2F, I knit myself a hat, because I decided it was silly that I had made warm hats for a number of people but did not have a good warm hat for myself. Now I am knitting another octopus, this one for the almost-six-month-old upstairs.

-- Still questing for good winter boots to replace my eight-year-old ones (the zippers have been through too much salt and sand and don't reliably zip any more). My requirements are relatively simple: waterproof, warm, not too expensive. I bought a pair that I was assured were waterproof, and they leaked like a sieve the first time I wore them in last week's wet-mush storm ("wet mush" in this case, was a combination of rain and show and slush that made crazy puddles all over Brookline).

-- I woke up this morning at about 3:20 to discover I was wearing my glasses. The bizarre thing about this is that I have a distinct memory of putting my glasses away and rolling onto my side to fall asleep, and that on-my-side position is not comfortable when I am still wearing my glasses. So sometime between when I fell asleep and 3:20, I must have woken up, opened my glasses case, put on my glasses, and gone back to sleep.

Comments

[goldsquare.livejournal.com]

On a local mailing list, there was much positive discussion of NEOS (New England Over Shoes) as excellent winter boots that fit over other shoes, snug tightly on top, go on and off easily, and let you wear street shoes at your destination.

That would not make them warm, but might make them good enough for your purposes.

I, myself, have some nasty old heavy L.L. Bean boots, which were not particularly cheap - but their predecessors came out to about 10 dollars a year over their lifetime. This set is currently at 16 dollars a year, and I expect them to last long enough to get that price back down below 10 dollars.

Since they guarantee their goods for life, I could have replaced them for free. But I felt that I'd gotten good value out of the first pair, and gladly paid for the second.

[lisafeld.livejournal.com]

Ah, but see, then you get the pleasure of having nostalgia whenever you visit those friends, without tripping over the thing in your living room. :)

My parents are equally frustrated by snow with nowhere to go; it makes driving around corners very difficult, and it's completely buried the woodpile. Grrr. If I knew how to send you guys some of my 50-degrees-and-sunny weather, I would; your need is greater than mine...

[kmelion.livejournal.com]

A few friends of mine just got htese: http://www.carolwrightgifts.com/Shoes-Slippers/Womens-Shoes/Chromatics-by-Totes-Snowflake-Boots/66209.cfm?clickSource=SEARCH

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

I've always done well with Canadian boots - they understand snow! Try Santana or Toe Warmers.