Reflections (and Photos) from Boomer’s Back Porch—The Not-Quite-Awesome “Weather Event”

…and Other Ramblings:

As Medford, the irrepressible Daisy Dog, and I (“Boomer” is, as always, inside, glued to his computer), gather on the deck of Boomer’s 148-year-old back porch, it is +26ºF, with a light breeze making it feel like +20ºF, snowing—ever so lightly, it is comfortable enough for us to enjoy our porcelain, not China, but made in China, Codger Collectible Mugs™ (this month’s limited edition of the mugs disappears on Wednesday) of organically & shade-grown, Fair Trade, French-Roast coffee—for about 5 minutes.

The big news over the weekend was the long-anticipated “weather-event.” The snowstorm that was supposed to dump 12-16” of snow, left us with a meager 8.5”! Some parts of the state received as much as 22” of the white stuff—but not us. I think Lenn Harley in Northern Virginia received more than we did. Now that’s embarrassing!

We can handle that much snow pretty easily hereabouts—especially when it occurs over a weekend. The city, county & state, are very effective at getting the main arteries cleared (the residential streets were started last night about 9pm). We help each other dig out, as well. The sound of snow-blowers and the scrape of shovels and private snow plow trucks could be heard throughout the neighborhood all Sunday afternoon.

Here are several photos taken from the comfort of this back porch after the storm:

Medford & I were FLABBERGASTICATED Sunday when we found that somebody of some influence on the ‘Rain must have been reading the deeper cuts of the LP (um, okay, for you young-uns: CD) that is the “Cyber Café & Back Porch Conversations” blog, so that this post, launched on February 20^th, would become featured four days after the fact. Four days on AR is usually archive-stuff (I ripped this from a comment I made yesterday to that post—why re-write the darn thing?). What’s really cool about this, is in that post we sorta trolled for a raingod to comment—and it worked (you’ll have to go and look at the comments to see which raingod descended from the impossible height of Mount Bloggious to comment—heh-heh).

On Saturday, we decided to post multiple times to our blog, in part to crack the 60,000 point threshold, and in part to expose our Gentle Reader to some of my practice “Windshield” photos. Posting “A Codger’s Lazy Saturday Photo Phun (Foto Fun?) Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3. This made us oh-so-guilty of: “RainBinging” As listed on TLW’s fun post: “The Active Rain Speak...Cheat Sheet...Get Ready To Laugh...ROAR!”

Now as we launch this post, in time we hope, for our early-rising & reading Gentle Reader, we’ll refill our porcelain, not China, but made in China, Codger Collectible Mugs™ (did I mention that this month’s limited edition of the mugs disappears on Wednesday) with organically & shade-grown, Fair Trade, French-Roast coffee, and kick back until it is time to depart for the café.

Jay & Medford