a post of epic and unreadable proportions!

[hannah_nutwood]

i finally got a day to sleep in today! as i woke up from a dream-riddled sleep and thought frantically about how i want to be a stay-at-home mum when i have kids of my own (ah, the things one thinks about when one is groggy!), i listened to the swish of the cars and the tap of rain upon the glass outside and thought to myself: it sounds like a

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[caveat_lect0r]

I got the card you sent! It was lovely, and such a treat to open. Thank you so much.

I'm sorry for your wet, cold misery. I had to run around outdoors for quite a while today at 25 degree wind chill, but at least it was dry and sunny.

I like your drawing!

[hannah_nutwood]

oh hurrah! i'm glad that it got through safely!

[chronographia]

Exciting doings in the world of Miss H. Nutwood! I wish my life were half so busy, or at least that my friends were half so close and not scattered thither and hither across timezones. (t would be especially pleasant to discuss hockey with someone who is not in my immediate family, but none of my friends have such predelictions for ice sports.)

at least she gets snow. i hate the caliber of snow we get out here. it is made colder and unpleasant by tenfold because it is so wet.
It is at times like this that I look out at the unending rusting, dreary western Pennsylvania landscape and yearn for the land of my youth and the magic words of 'lake effect' and 'more accumulation closer to the shore.' Sigh. I must resort to drawing fictitious snow too.

[hannah_nutwood]

i don't often care for hockey myself, but i found it amusing that my friend (who is a taiwanese canadian citizen) knows more about it than myself. well, actually, a lot of people know more about hockey than myself. it's one of the less boring and painful sports to watch -- i'll give it that -- but i just don't watch it unless somebody else has turned it on.

we shall suffer together it seems! i am told that 95% of canada will have a white Christmas this year, but my city is not on the list :(

where are you originally from?

[chronographia]

Apparently it was madness when my team made their way out to play the Canucks a couple of weeks ago - having Sindey Crosby on the roster does that, or so I am informed. Hockey gets regrettably marginalized in this area because of the rabid football following. I have to rely on the radio broadcasts which are a hoot (the best in the league I might even insist, if I were an insistent sort of person).

I spent my formative years in southeastern Wisconsin, about an hour and half away from Chicago. When I was five, I accidentally fell into a snowdrift-helping my mother to feed dog-and I could not get out again because it was that much bigger than me. It was rather a religious experience, and one that has stuck.

[hannah_nutwood]

hmmm... why am i thinking it was the penguins vs. canucks game that i was watching last weekend? it certainly was a heartbreaker or whatever they call those games that are won in sudden death. my great grandma was a huge hockey fan and would listen to the radio broadcasts with her friend down the hall :)

i bet you got winters there! the worst that ever happened to me was while i was sledding one year and somehow i got stuck up to the waist in snow. it was odd to feel so powerless and to have to ask my friends to pull me out. snow is so beguiling!

[ladybrock]

Snowshoeing!!

Those mint chocolate ones went down the best. I had one before I couldn't anymore, they were damned good.

[hannah_nutwood]

snowshoeing!!! it's gonna happen!

yup, there's still a few in the fridge that i am eyeing hungrily.

(and you had better have taken lotsa pictures of barkerville in snow! i would love to see that!)