snow daze

[ironymaiden]

last night we bundled up and walked around the neighborhood. since Matador was open we had dinner and drinks by the fire. Matador has an open fireplace with a bar curving around it; the place was hopping, but without a waitlist like a typical Saturday. there were few cars moving, but plenty of people walking with their babies bundled up like little starfish, and dogs in coats.

things were quiet again today; we were ordered to stay home from the second party of the weekend. Ballard has its priorities - C went out to get our usual Sunday morning coffee and pastry, and not only was the shop open but there were people hanging out inside.

we've had snow all day. we have at least six inches, and it keeps piling up. no wind here, just a white blanket over everything. the buildings outside are disappearing from view...which is definitely the snow and not the dark, since the white sky and the white ground are reflecting all the ambient light and making it full-moon bright out there.

we're sleeping on the futon in the living room, which stays warmer than the bedroom. we're eaten too many cookies, and made cake inna mug, and done all of kinds of useful-yet-stupid things like rearranging the office to expose more of the heater. (but of course we lost interest midway, so the bookcases in their new locations are mostly empty and there are books everywhere.)

Comments

[scarlettina.livejournal.com]

Thinkin' of you out there in Ballard. Glad you're keeping warm!

[varina8.livejournal.com]

Your snow days sound lovely. We have about 6-8 inches here. Snowboarders are still playing on either side of our block. Stay warm.

Sounds delightful

[andrew-the-oga.livejournal.com]

That sounds delightful, if only in its novelty-- people tell me Seattle doesn't get that kind of kind of snow experience very often.

(People tell me other things about Seattle, and I'm never sure what to believe.)

I see the Ballard Playground on the Google Earth; whereabouts are you? I judge from the post above that you don't live on a boat-- an exotic lifestyle about which I have fantasized uselessly for years. Good thing I live far from a coast, or I might actually attempt it.

Re: Sounds delightful

[ironymaiden]

it is novel. we might get snow one day a year, and usually rain washes it away the next day. the city doesn't have the equipment to clear the roads, and locals don't have the skills to drive. they just block off the hills.

since i have a November birthday and grew up in the east, i literally learned to drive in the snow. my first boss here sat C and i down to talk to us about what snow in Seattle means. we were so confused. now i get into the snow day mentality with everyone else. it's just safer.

(what people think of Seattle is extremely subjective. like most things, the more context you have, the better you are able to judge. and there's one story when we're encouraging people to come and another when we want to chase people away...)

i'm south and east of that playground, an easy walk from NW Market and Ballard Ave, which is the heart of what people call "downtown Ballard". we are very close to the water. living *on* the water would not work so well with our collection of books.

[buhrger]

locals don't have the skills to drive. they just block off the hills.
to be mildly fair to the locals, the grade on some of those roads wouldn't be the easist thing to drive on with ice&snow even for those of us who log several months of winter driving every year.

[ironymaiden]

true. if we had the same kind of winter conditions you have, i expect there would not be a city on all these hills.

[buhrger]

oh, it's not that bad. as long as everyone wears burkas, the weather is only really unpleasant, rather than fatal.

and if we had your hills, at lot of us would likely be dead from traffic

[craftyasparagus.livejournal.com]

Shit. Cake inna mug. I need to make this.

Recipe?

[ironymaiden]

http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Make_Cake_in_a_Mug

[craftyasparagus.livejournal.com]

Fuck. I used all of the eggs this morning for omelets.

[ironymaiden]

somewhere in the comments there is an applesauce variant. i want to say it replaces the egg?

[craftyasparagus.livejournal.com]

No applesauce, either.

Fail.