Saturday, 31 January 2026
The meteorologists’ models got the wind and the cold right, but our neighborhood only received a slight dusting, not nearly a ½ inch.
After the sun faded, I noticed an owl (pretty sure) hanging out near our back door. My theory is that it is perched lower than usual to avoid some of the wind.
Friday, 30 January 2026
After this, the colors got a stripe rather like the other day, but I was busy making coffee, and I didn’t go out and get a second shot.
Thursday, 29 January 2026
One more time…the sky reveals the sun is coming.
On my afternoon walk, I saw firefolk doing…something. When I came by on my return loop, the guy in training was. carrying and dragging quite a bit of hose, and the other guy was walking behind instructing and commanding. That hose seems darned heavy, even without being charged with water, which is darned heavy also.
Tuesday, 27 January 2026
The pre-dawn looked lovely, with a nice smear of yellow.
Not so lovely, the temp, and we’re not even discussing the much lower feels-like.
Monday, 26 January 2026
I wanted to look at the snowflake emoji close up. While researching, I found out this is the Apple snowflake, not The Other Kind. I like that it’s off axis and not exactly aligned up-down, and side-to-side.
A long time ago, I looked at a few snowflakes close up. This is not what they looked like…not delicate enough. But it works great displayed in my texting app.
Sunday, 25 January 2026
Ice is today’s headline. That means rain plus freezing temps. And the supercold (super = wayyyyy below freezing) rolls in overnight, and will linger for days, a week, maybe more. That’s an uber-cold-snap in these parts.
So far, we’re okay here, and very lucky, IMHO, as we still have electricity and internet and phone services.
Friday, 23 January 2026
This was the last time we had pretty sunshine. Today, our mayor said “you’re not going to be able to snowman” because this is an ice storm. Yeah, ice and snow, neither are common here in ATL.
Thursday, 22 January 2026
You may have heard about this nasty storm system—2K miles plus wide. We’ve been hearing about it for at least a week, along with warnings to Prepare. I got these household must-haves on Tuesday. Tuesday, mind you. Yes, we’re Prepared.
Yesterday, I visited the drug store for non-groc items. I did not buy one of these. The coming storm is a rain-becoming-ice storm, so snow shovels not effective.
However, the storm coming after this one, yup, it may snow on us. Let’s get through this weekend first, though. I am not looking forward to it At All.
