Most of Alabama woke this morning to some sort of snow, from the Tennesee state line all the way south to Mobile. We only saw a dusting, but there were several inches accumulation farther north. By early afternoon the sun was out, but the cold hung on. Our low last night, 16F. Our high today, 25F. Our projected low for tonight (wait for it), 9F. ( Read more... )

That would be 2022 ( Read more... )

After a fierce wind last night, it started raining, and it's still raining. Currently, it's 59˚F.

This is one of those days when the depression has ground me down so flat and smooth I cannot imagine how it ever got this bad or that it could ever get any worse.

Later,
CRK


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Falling asleep in anger, waking in anger. And the clouds are still here, and they will be for days. Smothering. Currently, it's 61˚F.

I have nothing anyone wants to hear about the coming year.

I had in mind that I'd make a list of the novels I read this year, if I can focus long enough to do that one thing. Likely, it will be the only thing I ( Read more... )

We have sun today, only patches of cloud - and wind - but it's colder than yesterday. Currently, it's 41˚F, but feels like 30˚F. I did manage to leave the house yesterday. We made it to the Athenaeum, and then Eastside Market, and then Whole Foods. We left the House at 2:20 p.m. and returned right about 6 p.m. So, I was Outside for three hours and ( Read more... )

Oh, blue sky, I know your appetite, so don't dry to fool me.

Yesterday, I wrote another three pages of Chapter #3 of Alabaster: The Good, the Bad, and the Bird (13, 14, and 15). It has gone to a surprising place, and that's why I don't write outlines. Because outlines have a way of setting things in stone, and instead of unfolding organically ( Read more... )