Underarmor leggings and Browning wool socks? Check.
Short-sleeve tee, long-sleeve tee, and jeans? Check.
Sahalie fleece pullover? Check.
Adidas Adventure boots? Check.
Columbia parka? Check.
North Face mountaineering gloves? Check.
Shemagh tied on good? Check.
Okay, I'm ready to take the trash to the curb.
OK, that one made me spit coffee on the keyboard.
ReplyDeleteHeh. Sounds like what I woke up to this morning: "I wanna move to Florida!"
ReplyDeleteWhich would be OK, I guess; no income tax and "shall issue". Just that beachfront is so damn expensive, even in this economy...
Cool and discreet, honey, in the dancing frost while the thermometer registers 10 degrees fondly Fahrenheit.
ReplyDeleteTry describing this kind of cold, or colder, to folks who've never seen the puddles in their yard freeze. Best I've come up with is, "Stick your head in your freezer, turn on a fan, stay there for 15 minutes. Now imagine having to do that to warm up." Larry Weeks
ReplyDeletePeppermint Schnapps? Check.
ReplyDeleteDaydreams of Barbados? Check.
I know Duneland Beach is snowier than Hell. The winter roads from Evansville to Louisville are basic training for "Ice Road Trucker." However:
ReplyDeleteAs my local temperature sits at 11 below, heading for a high of 12, it occurs to me that watching Hoosiers cope with winter is like an MEU watching kids shoot paintballs. :)
Jim,
ReplyDeleteI don't bitch too much because, after all, I do know where the nearest on-ramp to I-65 South is located. ;)
Me, 2 years ago, North Dakota, 0 degrees, snowing, winds ca. 25 knots, outside running the snow blower, uttering these words for the first time in my life - I gotta move someplace warm, like New Mexico!
ReplyDeleteStill here . . . < FFFFF >
I don't bother putting on pants to take the trash to the dumpster at the corner, unless the temperature is below -10 F.
ReplyDeleteMain reason I quit riding scooters in the winter (scooter as an affection term for full dress rides). At 9 degress you have a couple of minutes before the skin freezes.
ReplyDeleteOr maybe you want to keep your youthful complexion?
South is looking better all the time.
What, Sidcot suit at the cleaners?
ReplyDeleteNo 'Guns? Checked. Ammo? Plenty.' ??
ReplyDeleteI said "pants" and "coat". Gun(s) and ammo may therefore be taken as read. ;)
ReplyDeleteI have strong opinions on global warming. I'm for it.
ReplyDeleteYeah, it's kind of cold here in Phoenix today, it hasn't passed 60 yet. Won't be comfortable to roll down the windows.
ReplyDeleteBrought some boxes wrongly delivered to me down to the neighbors place 80-90 yards away last night.
ReplyDeleteSingle digits, 40 mile an hour wind, dry snow being whipped up into rolling clouds.
Sweater, no coat or hat, no gloves or boots. If it's only a few minutes, it just makes the inside of your house all the more cozy when you get back.
Really, after the first few decades, especially if you've spent a lot of time out working in it, it becomes just part of the cycle. We'll turn you into a Yankee yet.
Reminds me of when the wife was still the girlfriend, and she invited me over for a drink.
ReplyDeleteIt was 5 below zero.
The car wouldn't start.
It was a mile walk to the subway.
It was 5 below zero.
So I put on:
Herman's Survivors, heavy wool socks, polypropylene long johns, Danish ski patrol wool pants, Pendleton shirt, wool sweater, my old N3-B parka with the wool pile lining, a wool balaclava over a silk balaclava, and silk glove liners under down mittens. The final layer, I had to put on in the vestibule.
Did I mention it was 5 below?
Since a former employer blessedly transferred me here, and I have grown to truly love this state, I can't imaging living any further north than the Red River (the border between Texas and Oklahoma, for you furriners).
ReplyDeleteAnd that includes my semi-native Kansas.
cap'n chumbucket
You forgot to mention that you'd be doing a rhumba. Or were you not intending to reference that classic short sf tale?
ReplyDeleteJust as I always suspected. Tam's one of those women who take out the trash in their pajamas.
ReplyDeleteTo go out for any length of time, however, requires dressing warmly.
Wimp! (ducking) Just kidding. :-) I used to run barefoot across the snow covered front yard to get the mail from the mailbox because it was too much trouble to go to the other end of the house to put my boots on for such a short trip.
ReplyDeleteDang, LL beat me to the Al Bester reference, and a more subtle one that I'd have used. Oh it's no feat to beat the heat...
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