I can't scream into a pillow because it would freak the cats out.
I am so done with winter it's not even funny.
skip to main |
skip to sidebar
Become a Patron!
Email Address: TamSlick A T aol D O T com
As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.
Books. Bikes. Boomsticks.
“I only regret that I have but one face to palm for my country.”
About Me
Other Media!
Starving Artist Ammo Fund
Become a Patron!
Email Address: TamSlick A T aol D O T com
As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.
Blogs
- Marko: Space Kablooie Purveyor.
- Say Uncle: ...or else.
- Amplified Being: Purpose, Intent, Virtue
- Roberta X: The Adventures Of...
- Better And Better: Peace be with you.
- The LawDog Files: Tales From Texas.
- Gorillafritz: Active Response Training
- Annette Evans: On Her Own
- Jim Grey: Down the Road
- J.P.'s Blog: A Blog About...Stuff
- Commander Zero: Notes From the Bunker
- Not Clauswitz: Sprawling Adventures.
- Mausers & Muffins: Mm-mmm, good!
- Fatale Abstraction: Phlegmatically Yours.
- Hipster Tactical: Pew off the Beaten Path
- EJ: Engineering Johnson
- Counter Jockey Chronicles
- Pluralistic: Cory Doctorow
- Jennifer: Inside Her Head
- Claude Werner: Avoid Serious Mistakes
- Gun Culture 2.0: Guns Are Normal
- MArooned: Stuck Behind Enemy Lines.
- 357 Magnum: Maximum Stopping Power.
- Ambulance Driver: Vuja De.
- Oleg Volk's Blog: 1,000 Words.
- Instapundit: Like he needed another link...
Links
- The Arms Room: Cosmoline and Rust.
- Forgotten Weapons
- The Firing Line: Molon Labe.
- Indy Arms Co.
- AmmoMan: School of Guns Blog
- CorneredCat.com: Fight like a...
- Brownells: Stuff For Your Gun
- Ballistic Radio: It's got electrolytes!
- Tactical Tangents Podcast
- Pistol-Training.com: Get Serious.
- Pistol-Forum.com: The Forum For Serious Students Of The Pistol
- Eye of the Volkmeister: Oleg Volk.net.
- CCW Reference: Handgunlaw.us
- SurvivalBlog: It's TEOTWAWKI, and I feel fine.
- TheFirearmBlog: All guns. All the time.
- Indiana State Rifle & Pistol Association
- Indiana Gun Owners Forum
- Digital Fossils: From the Cambrian Explosion of silicon life.
More Awesome Blogs!
- Sebastian: Shall not be Questioned
- Leicaphilia: Thinking about seeing.
- Casual Photophile: Thoughts & Cameras
- The Online Photographer: Writing on Photography
- Farmer Frank: Shootin' the Breeze.
- JPG: Expert Witness
- Joe Huffman: Mr. Boomershoot
- Michael Bane: His blog.
- Andrew: Vuurwapen Blog
- Peter: Bayou Renaissance Man
- NJT: With a Capital "Zed"
Facebook Badge
Blog Archive
-
▼
2014
(1060)
-
▼
March
(94)
- SIG SP2022 at the range...
- Gratuitous Gun Pr0n #81...
- BANG!
- Lies and the lying liars who tell them...
- Walking the Earf...
- Batt'ries...
- Helped to Death.
- I got yer "voodoo economics" right here.
- At least he didn't accuse them of being violent, b...
- Overheard in the Office...
- "Gonzo Political Corruption Stories"
- Thoghts and/or prayers appreciated...
- What media bias?
- What media bias?
- Subject Matter Expert.
- Carry gun...
- Also...
- Ugh.
- You guys! You'll never guess what it's doing out t...
- "Why won't you ignorant cousin-humping rednecks vo...
- Seriously? There are putative adults that think li...
- You keep using that phrase, Mister President...
- Automotif XXV...
- Hard drive flotsam...
- What happened to the TeeWee?
- An entire worldview based on self-loathing.
- First robins of Spring...
- Dammit!
- It's too big to be a space station.
- Dream an annoying little dream.
- Overheard in the Smallest Room...
- "I was astonished at how much he had learned in se...
- QotD: It's Not Alternate History Edition
- The oddest Flying Malayman theory I've heard yet...
- The new normal...
- You got Crimea before Ukraine joined NATO, Pootie.
- Ghosts in the machine.
- The United States Of Bailout
- "We are charging you under Article 58-10!"
- Neat!
- Tab Clearing...
- I don't know why this cracks me up so hard...
- Gratuitous Gun Pr0n #80...
- Top. Men.
- #ThanksObama
- Good to see that region is all stabilized.
- That makes as much sense as any other theory.
- Yes, spelling does matter.
- Weak as a kitten.
- Houston, we have a problem...
- Please let us know where to mail your internet.
- BANG! Pulled the trigger.
- It's fun show time!
- QotD: *%&# Your Loser Talk Edition
- Wiki Tab Clearing...
- Work Stuff
- Late night fun with the intertweets...
- QotD: Key Graf Edition
- I'm not making a statement; I just want a sammich.
- "Stop Touching It!", Episode No. Whatever
- Guys! You'll never guess what it's doing out there!
- Whimper.
- Shake your bowcaster in the tyrant's face!
- Gratuitous Gun Pr0n #79...
- The distant past of last week.
- Crazy Years.
- AFK BRB
- This made me smile.
- Yikes!
- "She is the champion and vindicator only of her own."
- It's a funny ol' planet...
- Guys! Guys! Best idea ever!
- Changing definitions.
- "Being in the Indian navy is like taking a cruise..."
- Because I hate using my best material at an away g...
- I don't mean to be cocky, here, but...
- The first robin of spring?
- As things begin to shape up for 2016...
- Hey, look! They already had a mug shot!
- Sowing the wind...
- As has been mentioned before...
- Primitives amazed by technology.
- That's the guy!
- Knowing Ambulance Driver...
- QotD: Already On The Books Edition
- Continuing edjumacation...
- Bad faith discussion.
- The cherry on the icing of the cake of that story.
- Sigh.
- Foregone conclusions.
- Sorry about that...
- Guns don't kill people, crazy knife-wielding mania...
- Strange Dreams...
- It's déjà vu all over again...
-
▼
March
(94)
Labels
- .405 Winchester (10)
- 19ByGod11 (240)
- 2k wrapup (17)
- A walk on the slippery rocks (348)
- ammunition (27)
- APS Autopsy (4)
- AR stuff (224)
- Automotif (624)
- avarice (34)
- awwww (22)
- Bad Ideas (400)
- Baseball (72)
- beer (97)
- Bicycles (134)
- Bikes (91)
- blatant capitalism (57)
- bleg (46)
- Blog Stuff (2757)
- Boberg (7)
- Books (642)
- Boomsticks (4512)
- bread and circuses (1057)
- Broad Ripple and Environs (173)
- But is it art? (128)
- CanCon 2022 (2)
- cats (253)
- collecting (252)
- Colt (59)
- computer archaeology (58)
- conspiranoia (107)
- Crimson Trace 3-Gun Match (40)
- cuteness (35)
- d'oh (70)
- dead meat (254)
- Derp Sells (15)
- Doing The Right Thing (43)
- Double Action Autumn (6)
- Dream Cars (6)
- Drumstick Dash (3)
- dslr splainer (1)
- eek (49)
- Excuses (301)
- exercise (29)
- existential screaming (54)
- F'N cool (7)
- fangirl squee (11)
- filler (2)
- flicks (250)
- Fun Show (138)
- G-Lock (256)
- gadgetry (288)
- games (120)
- Gear Ho' (390)
- geekery (565)
- Good Times (493)
- Gratuitous Gun Pr0n (255)
- gun games (97)
- Gun School (403)
- gun wrenching (15)
- Heroes (80)
- history (1127)
- hmmm (77)
- holsters (17)
- Horton hears a Hoosier (836)
- hunting (19)
- Ick (149)
- Idjits (471)
- Ignorance is no excuse for a law (622)
- Indy Zoo (27)
- John Moses Browning (82)
- Just A Girl (123)
- kids these days (234)
- knives (62)
- Life In The Monkey House (1841)
- livin' in dreamland (118)
- LuckyGunner Blogger Shoot (10)
- Magic 8-Ball (13)
- man bites dog (7)
- Marines (13)
- Mausers (30)
- me (1)
- Me me me (592)
- meh (3)
- memeishness (187)
- mirrorless musings (2)
- misanthropy (251)
- mockery (591)
- money makes the world go 'round (660)
- Monumental Marathon (1)
- movies (26)
- music (9)
- my brown thumb (57)
- my g-g-g-generation (225)
- nature (326)
- Neat-o (597)
- News (2475)
- Note To Self (10)
- NRAAM (19)
- Odometer (61)
- optimism (19)
- Ouch (79)
- Overheard... (684)
- Para Gun Blogger Weekend (27)
- pickcher takin' (892)
- planes (307)
- poetry (12)
- politics (2748)
- pr0n pr0n (4)
- practicality (190)
- Preparedness (630)
- Project Whisper (14)
- Pugsley (30)
- Putnam County (1)
- QotD (372)
- Random Musing (275)
- Range Notes (521)
- reloading (18)
- retrotech (7)
- revolvers (229)
- rifles (154)
- rimfires (82)
- Robot Revenooers (11)
- Safety first - Accidents last (223)
- Savage (6)
- schadenfreude (106)
- science (243)
- scorn (71)
- Secrets of the Internet (2)
- Seriously WTFingF? (170)
- SF (320)
- ships (172)
- SHOT Show 2017 (6)
- SHOT Show 2018 (9)
- SHOT Show 2019 (4)
- SHOT Show 2020 (12)
- SHOT Show 2021 (1)
- SHOT Show 2022 (1)
- shotguns (98)
- Shouldn't we talk about the earthquake weather? (7)
- Shouldn't we talk about the weather? (624)
- Sistema Diaries (2)
- slurs and rumors (24)
- Smith and Wesson (439)
- snark (961)
- space (164)
- spitting in the wind (797)
- State Fair (99)
- strangeness (114)
- Stupid Cop Tricks (218)
- suckage (97)
- Summertime in SoBro (89)
- surliness (216)
- swords (4)
- t'hee (1636)
- t’hee (15)
- Tactical Conference 2018 (6)
- Tactical Conference 2019 (3)
- Tactical Conference 2021 (6)
- Tactical Conference 2022 (3)
- Tactical Conference 2023 (9)
- Tactical Conference 2024 (6)
- Tactical Conference 2025 (1)
- tacticool (286)
- Tamarese (11)
- tanks (35)
- Taxonomy of Modern Dangers (123)
- teh intarw3bz (3200)
- The Fix Is In (87)
- TMI (8)
- tractors (20)
- trivia (35)
- tunes (182)
- Us and Theme (2)
- vidjo (647)
- Vogon poetry (17)
- w00t (7)
- Where's Chewie? (7)
- whining (797)
- wikiwander (111)
- Wo(S)D (62)
- Wome (71)
- Word Up (4)
- worry (5)
- Wow (10)
- writing (403)
- WTF? (835)
- Year of TDA (3)
- yum (494)
- Zoom zoom (1250)
25 comments:
Go for a ride (scream away). Get something ridiculously sweet and fattening, some new clothes, or a new gadget.
Come back and drop some amazing phrase on us.
Sick of grey.
Can't wait for evenings by the fire pit, sizzling steak, and cold lager by the cooler full.
Hang in there. Not much longer to go.
Road trip? It's 60 degrees and sunny here in Western Colorado.
Did you move around today?
Move pain away.
Shootin' Buddy
Patience. I spotted a Bradford Pear starting to bloom during my morning commute today.
It won't be long.
Teach you to live in the midwest.
This is why you have a car. You can drive around in the car screaming, and people will hardly even look at you. I have been doing it since 1988
Pretend you are Finnish, get drunk, and knife someone.
Dateline: Mid-Atlantic Maryland
Yesterday we were playing with the kids outside in T-shirts, enjoying sun and almost 60 degree weather.
This morning we woke to freezing rain and got 7+ inches of snow. It'll be single digits tonight and below zero wind chill. School closed. Again.
Yesterday sun and fun. Today sliding and shoveling.
I. Am. Done.
Yo Tam:
Hit the local plant nursery - buy some crocus bulbs. Plant 'em.
Next winter/spring about this time, they'll be all poking their way up through the snow sayin' "Spring is here! Spring is here!", and then you can take pictures of 'em and post 'em on the 'ol blog with the caption "Spring is (almost) Here!"
Daffodils, narcissus, and hyacinth are also springtime announcers. Plus, they're purty!
BSR
I'd say pack up and come to Birmingham for a bit, but I think I may just head for south of I-10 myself right about now.
Kristophr- I believe that shooting Russian conscripts to be another acceptable Finnish winter activity.
My old cure for the Never-ending Winter Blues was to read Hemingway's "Islands in the Stream". And LOTS of Travis McGee.
Tam:
This article in the WSJ titled "Longest, Darkest Winters Spark Odd Mood Boosters - Nordic Tricks to Fight Winter Blues: Special Headsets, Hilltop Mirrors."
Interesting stuff for the winter blues from people that would know about it. Also, I've heard positive things from people who install skylights in their roofs.
If the link (it's from Drudge)doesn't work, try the article title in your favorite search engine.
BSR
Hmm...
Reminds me of The Cremation of Sam McGee.
Which in part goes like this.
"Sam McGee was from Tennessee ...
Why he left his home in the South to roam 'round the Pole, God only knows."
A good cold-weather poem.
I have five feet of snow in my
yard and we got a half inch of new stuff overnight. More in the forecast. My snowblower is
snowed in and has been for over a week. It's been too damn cold to
shovel the shed out so I can
unleash the machine on the white stuff.
Sing me no sad songs, as mine is sadder and will last longer.
You aren't the only one, Tam. So's John Kovalic:
http://www.dorktower.com/2014/03/03/the-polar-depress-dork-tower-03-03-14/
Saw a robin here in Northern New Jersey. They usually arrive with Spring. How they survive 'till it gets a bit warmer.
Well, you could move out into my territory ... the PNW around the Seattle area. Then once the gray of winter passes, you can enjoy ... the gray or spring ... and after that the 3 days of summer sunshine before the gray of Autumn!
I've been trying to get the wife to move outta this area for a couple years now, but we're still here - at least until the last kid gets done with HS! At least snow and stuff would be something to deal with.
After 3 hours of sun yesterday afternoon, the forecast says rain today ... and tomorrow, and the next day, and no rain on Friday, but overcast... then rain on Saturday
See ... it could be worse!
Joe: These days they knife Russians who think getting drunk in a Finnish bar was a good idea.
Plenty of sunshine here in Des Moines. We are up to a whopping 30 degrees. With a chance of snow tonight. Winter can be over any time now. Sometimes I think I'm ready to move back to Texas.
After complaining about five feet
of snow above, I went out to
move a little of it around.
My truck, buried in the snowbank,
was blowing the horn. I only saw that happen once before on my dad's old Rambler wagon, in the summer. The truck must be tired of winter. No idea why the wagon got so vocal.
Disconnected the battery and
shoveled snow for a while. Life
in the frozen north. Cold, snow
high heat bills, and no place to shoot that isn't as buried as the
truck.
og said...
This is why you have a car. You can drive around in the car screaming
That's funny! Or you could just use the car to you know, drive somewhere that isn't in the freezer.
Sunshine and warm temps do exist in winter.
Lots of sunshine here, but that only means it's going to be cold. So cold, in fact, today makes the 71st consecutive day with below zero temps.
When the sun isn't shining, it's snowing. The banks are so high I can't see over them from the truck cab, so pulling out the drive is an exercise in faith. No place left to put snow, and March is just beginning- we normally get a couple of extra feet during the first couple weeks of March.
Lake Superior is pretty much totally frozen over, but the Coast Guard is taking off today to begin ice breaking operations.
(Sigh)
I, too, am ready for some kind of warm weather. Let Goreball Warming happen.
Here in the change-planes-as-quickly-as-possible DFW region, we have only had a few icy days, not so bad. So join us, do not be afraid! (Of the tornadoes, among other things.)
But if you're committed to living in true flyover territory, I can only only sympathize; a few of my own Pittsburgh and Ithaca winters did get rather long, and I still have relatives in those parts to remind me.
Post a Comment