errands in the melt
It's not ugly yet - there's still enough snow cover that most of the dead brown grass is covered, and the snow piles in parking lots/along the road aren't just piles of sand & mud but that's coming soon. It was warm enough yesterday that I could walk outside (new boots worked pretty well, although they're now mud splattered). It might be warm enough tomorrow, as well. Not wearing walking shoes until after the frost rises out of the roads, so it may be another month or so for that.
I stopped at Menard's today and bought a broom handle. Which doesn't fit the broom head. The non-threaded broom handle they have won't fit it either. Guess I'll just have to buy a new garage broom. (It's not like they're expensive, but it's the principle of repairing rather than replacing....)
I dropped my phone on the garage floor this morning. sigh. First time I've cracked a phone screen. I hadn't put a screen protector on it because I hadn't cracked a screen in 15 years*.... Although, I'm not sure that a screen protector would have prevented this crack, as it looks like it dropped onto the corner of the phone. It's kind of hard to find a screen protector that's *not* tempered glass - I need one now, because otherwise the cracks will spread and/or catch fingers.
Gas prices are going up. (I hadn't been past a gas station since Monday.) They tell us that this is because of the freeze in Texas, which closed ports and processing plants, between no power and frozen equipment.
(* OK, I cracked an iPod display when I kneeled on it a decade ago, but the screen didn't crack. And the display healed itself quite a bit, so it's much better than it was.)
I stopped at Menard's today and bought a broom handle. Which doesn't fit the broom head. The non-threaded broom handle they have won't fit it either. Guess I'll just have to buy a new garage broom. (It's not like they're expensive, but it's the principle of repairing rather than replacing....)
I dropped my phone on the garage floor this morning. sigh. First time I've cracked a phone screen. I hadn't put a screen protector on it because I hadn't cracked a screen in 15 years*.... Although, I'm not sure that a screen protector would have prevented this crack, as it looks like it dropped onto the corner of the phone. It's kind of hard to find a screen protector that's *not* tempered glass - I need one now, because otherwise the cracks will spread and/or catch fingers.
Gas prices are going up. (I hadn't been past a gas station since Monday.) They tell us that this is because of the freeze in Texas, which closed ports and processing plants, between no power and frozen equipment.
(* OK, I cracked an iPod display when I kneeled on it a decade ago, but the screen didn't crack. And the display healed itself quite a bit, so it's much better than it was.)