A taste of things to come...!

On exiting the apartment building one morning last week, I am confronted by this image. Wow! How can one go to work in these circumstances? I cannot see anything from within? Maybe I need one of those infra-red goggles! No, all I required was a simple snow brush to brush off the snow and scrape off the ice beneath it. But of course, I did not possess one! Typical reactionary am I not? Since I did not equip myself in advance, I had to roll a plastic bag around my hand and scrape off the snow (thankfully, there was no ice underneath). Of course, I do not want to mention that after I got inside the car, I had to wait ten minutes to get some iota of feeling in my hands, so that I could start the (brrr...cold) engine and eventually get some warm air. Sounds like fun, is it not? For you, it may be morning blues, alas, for me it is the morning whites and ice.

Whither goes thou, queried I, on a bored and lazy Californian afternoon. Born out of that simple but profound query, came one of my (more) pointless postings. Well, I did not go much geographically, except to this snow-forsaken not-as-cold-as-Canada state of Vermont (contrast that with sunny and chill Texas, where one could go to the corner store in shorts!). And right away, I was served with some appetizing hors d'oeuvres, which would, one assumes in any restaurant, foretell a taste of things to come. Before you start thinking of some real food, let me relieve you of such appetizing thoughts (my stomach actually rumbled as I wrote this line!). That reference to food was a metaphor to the first snowfall of the season in Vermont. The main courses (here they do a mutli-course meal) are going to be heavier, so I might in the future realize the need to buy a snow shovel, or, better, a snowmobile to dig my car out of piled up snow and somehow drive to work on snowbound roads... The warning signs are already in place: we saw a barely positive temperature today, after only 4 days! Of course, being the reactionary I am, I will probably wait for this catastrophe to occur before equipping myself further. For now, a snow brush would suffice.

P.S. I do not think it would be so bad, but I would reserve my opinion till April, assuming I am not buried under a layer of snow!!