It's 2010! Wow! When did that happen? Where did the "noughties" go? I blinked and it was the Sydney Olympics and now it's 10 years later.... Talk about "tempus fugit".
Let's just get it out there. This Winter has been a complete bust!!!Actually I need to clarify that.....it has been a complete bust in New England.
If you live in Florida , Alabama, Georgia and other southern states, you recently got a taste of what a typical New England Winter is all about.
Oranges and strawberries were sprayed by the farmers, to encase them in ice (As shown in this picture - courtesy of Associated Press). This protects them from the cold, but does mean the farmers can still harvest them for juice. As long as they get them off the tree less than 24 hours after icing.
Unfortunately, as the cold went south, New England ended up with the warmth. As Jen was complaining about the lack of a Summer this past year, I am doing likewise with my Winter...where-o-where has it gone?? And when is it coming back?
The new year started off quietly for us. We stayed in an watched Dick Clark on First Night, and had a quiet glass of champers (sorry....Californian sparkling white wine that is fermented in the bottle using the traditional Methode Champenoise....there.... that gets me out of any legal difficulties with calling a wine not made in the Champagne district, Champagne. PHEW!)
Since then we've pretty much been home-bodies. New Englanders tend to hibernate when the mercury drops below zero (Celsius) and you don't tend to see them again until April when the sun comes out again. Although I did have my first BBQ in a snow storm.
I shovelled the back deck to create a path to the BBQ, fired it up, put the beers in the snow bank nearby and went hell for leather. Snow flakes falling down all around me as I cooked. So much fun!
Work has been hectic. Since moving into a new office building last October, I've spent a grand total of 4 days in my "cube". And with all the training classes I am involved in I don't actually set foot in the office again until the end of March. I wouldn't have it any other way! The new office building is a lovely building. Well engineered and completely "green", but it's way to corporate for me.
I've got a trip to Australia coming up in late February. It's a short hop and I am flying out of Atlanta in order to get there. The really bad thing is that Jenny and the kids aren't coming with me. We looked at the logistics of things and there was a huge amount of time when Jen would have to manhandle both the kids through airports and such like, before meeting up with me. And the fact that I am headed for Melbourne, not Sydney, is a double whammy!
Ok back into it I go. Hope everyone has had a great new year so far.
It's 2010! Wow! When did that happen? Where did the "noughties" go? I blinked and it was the Sydney Olympics and now it's 10 years later.... Talk about "tempus fugit".
Let's just get it out there. This Winter has been a complete bust!!!Actually I need to clarify that.....it has been a complete bust in New England.
If you live in Florida , Alabama, Georgia and other southern states, you recently got a taste of what a typical New England Winter is all about.
Oranges and strawberries were sprayed by the farmers, to encase them in ice (As shown in this picture - courtesy of Associated Press). This protects them from the cold, but does mean the farmers can still harvest them for juice. As long as they get them off the tree less than 24 hours after icing.
Unfortunately, as the cold went south, New England ended up with the warmth. As Jen was complaining about the lack of a Summer this past year, I am doing likewise with my Winter...where-o-where has it gone?? And when is it coming back?
The new year started off quietly for us. We stayed in an watched Dick Clark on First Night, and had a quiet glass of champers (sorry....Californian sparkling white wine that is fermented in the bottle using the traditional Methode Champenoise....there.... that gets me out of any legal difficulties with calling a wine not made in the Champagne district, Champagne. PHEW!)
Since then we've pretty much been home-bodies. New Englanders tend to hibernate when the mercury drops below zero (Celsius) and you don't tend to see them again until April when the sun comes out again. Although I did have my first BBQ in a snow storm.
I shovelled the back deck to create a path to the BBQ, fired it up, put the beers in the snow bank nearby and went hell for leather. Snow flakes falling down all around me as I cooked. So much fun! 