As summer drags on, the humidity hangs along with it. As mentioned previously, I HATE humidity. Warm-blooded people don’t handle it well. Even in the dead of February, baby me was a little furnace, according to my mom, whose arm was always dripping after holding her baby furnace. I’ve continued to be a mini-furnace ever since. Sometimes I [...]
Archive for the ‘weather’ Category
My annual summer rant…
Posted in weather, tagged humidity, rant, summer, weather on August 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Weather rant
Posted in weather, tagged rain, rant on June 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It has been raining for four hours straight – not predicted. Enough with the rain already. Nearly 2 feet of rain so far this year…GRUMBLE. The crab can hopefully go burrow back into the sand soon…if it isn’t too soggy…
Longing for the desert…
Posted in weather, tagged Chicago, Phoenix, rant on April 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I think I need to rename this blog Weather disappointment and its effects on the mind. Chicago weather is just unbelievable. I know other areas get two feet of snow dumped on them or have 75 degrees dewpoints, but this place gets it all. I even saw hail a couple of weeks ago. We had [...]
It’s spring!
Posted in weather, tagged anti-rant, spring on March 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It’s 6:44 AM – spring is FINALLY here! Time to go outside in the 26 degree air and party!
2 flooded basements in nine days
Posted in weather, tagged flooding, rant on March 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Once again, I am dealing with a flooded basement and I am mad. Chicago supposedly has a deep tunnel project that has been under construction for 30 years. Yet it can’t handle two to three inch rains, which seem to be increasing around here (like once in every nine days.) I spent an hour bailing [...]
Profound thought of the day…
Posted in weather, tagged flooding on February 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I am totally sick of flooded basements!
Winter confusion
Posted in weather, tagged snow on February 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been hearing about and seeing pictures of the snow in the UK this week. There’s supposedly very little salt and no plows because snow is an unusual event there. I guess I’m just an isolated Yank – I’d always thought that England etc. got pretty much the winter that we in the northern states [...]
Shouldn’t there have been a payoff to the Illinois groundhog??
Posted in weather, tagged groundhog on February 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
At 10:30 a.m. on Groundhog Day, Tumbleweed Groundhog at the Brookfield Zoo awoke to find a group of guests waiting to find out if she would see her shadow! Tumbleweed did see her shadow, predicting 6 more weeks of winter!
If Tumbleweed had been named Rod, we could have fixed it and blotted out the sun. [...]
Nirvana in January…
Posted in weather, tagged anti-rant on January 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
38 degrees…sun and no snow…the kitchen ice dam has slowed to a trickle instead of a constant stream of water pouring through the woodwork…cool tunes blasting in my ear…a glass of wine…aaaaaaaahhhh…
Everything but the kitchen sink…
Posted in weather, tagged Chicago, snow, winter on January 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
With nearly 40 inches of lovely snow in two months, the time-honored tradition of saving parking spots is in full force. Here are some extra special spot holders (from the Chicago Tribune):
(There was also a walker (!), but I couldn’t find that photo.) I’m sure there is a kitchen sink on a city street, somewhere…
