Sorry about the tone--Winter Weather makes me cranky.

[urbpan]

We had some snow...



(pictures cross posted by cottonmanifesto)



Alexis and Maggie in the shallowest part of our sidewalk snow.


Trying to get to dry land in the park, so Charlie could do his business.


The far-left car belongs to belen1974. I'm borrowing it/taking care of it while she's in the Phillipines! This car is not going anywhere until Wednesday at the earliest. My idiot neighbors are digging their cars out as I type this. Never mind that the Governor has called a state of emergency and is asking everyone to stay home today, the traffic outside is like any other day, except for the 20 foot snow-plow piles and thick layer of snow still on the road. Stupid motorists.


This is our back porch. Yes, that's a toilet. We're the only white trash family in Brookline! (Alexis says "We are not white trash!" and I reply "Maybe you weren't before I moved in...!"


This was yesterday. Right now, this street is bumper-to-bumper traffic, clogged with people who consider themselves too important to stay home from work today.


Maggie porpoising through snow that's almost twice as deep as she is tall.

Comments

[rwblackbird.livejournal.com]

break out the snowshoes

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

All day long yesterday there was a parade of people on skis and snowshoes--happy, I guess that they didn't have to leave the city to use them.

[richmackin.livejournal.com]

And to think, I actually heard someone say "The thermometer says '50', no wonder I'm cold!"

Have you seen the movie "Touching the Void"?

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

Fifty, huh? Is that above or below zero?

I haven't seen "Touching the Void." Movielens ( http://movielens.umn.edu ) predicts that I'll give it four stars out of five, though.

I think that's the one that Alexis is afraid to see.

[cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com]

What? I've never heard of it.

[cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com]

Ha ha ha! I just read this review:

However, one thing just REALLY bothered me, and that was how fake the mountains looks when it was just a pan across. It wasn't even CGI. I swear, it was just whipped cream! Going through all of the endeavors that those two went on through a bunch of whipped cream? It's shocking. Also, sometimes the shots looked extremely fake. They looked exactly like a Hollywood soundstage.

I saw 'Into Thin Air' IMAX. It was scary. I'm not as afraid of those movies since the liklihood of me mountainclimbing is pretty low. I'm scared of the shark movies because I actually swim in the ocean.

[richmackin.livejournal.com]

Above. It's "hoodie weather" here.

Touching the Void is a film about two mountainclimbers who face serious hardship. One falls into a crevasse, breaks his leg, and spends 4 days crawling back.

It reminds me of Boston winter.

[wakarusa.livejournal.com]

B read that and gave me blow by frostbite blow. And I think there might have been amputations, too, but I'm probably getting it confused with the Everest/ Into Thin Air one as well.