I told Maria a storm was coming around noon yesterday, well before the Weather Channel sent out an alert, and my electric company sent me a notification urging me to stay indoors and not shovel snow if I was over 65 and had a history of heart disease. I keep sending them messages in return suggesting they mind their own business, and in the words of my friend Julz, blow it out their ass.
Social media may yet poison the universe, why is my electric company offering me health advice?
We’re expecting eight or more inches, falling the most heavily Saturday afternoon. We switched our movie tickets on Sunday we’re going to see Nightmare Alley, the scary new carny movie. I’d go most places to see a Guillermo movie. I expect to review it, and I hope to love it.
The reason I knew a storm was coming is not because I’m a psychic or an empath, but because I was watching the sheep and the donkeys. They get restless in a particular way when a storm is coming; they instinctively get hungry to fill their bellies and warm their bodies. If there are eight inches, there will be no grazing, and for a sheep or donkey, that can spell suffering, even death.
So they eat ravenously and seem anxious and edgy because they are.
This is an unfailing way to know a storm is coming and get prepared. I’m getting the snowblower out onto the back porch and putting a covering on the car windshield to keep it from freezing over. We have plenty of firewood on hand and enough to eat. We will have a few hours to shop in the morning if we need to. I don’t think we do.
Tonight, I went out as it got dark to fiddle with the night features on the phone; I like this one; Liam showed up in the dark and made the photo sing.
I will be shoveling for as long as I can on Saturuday and snow-blowing the main paths to the pasture and the feeders and around the car. I’ll also be wearing my new Amish-inspired boots. Storm photos make me happy. I’ll use my Iphone camera and my Leica; this will be its second storm. Storms should be great for a monochrome camera, there is nothing but some black and all white.
Animals know all! Not to get off topic, but you mentioned the electric company and it made me wonder how the solar panels were working out for you overall? Did they end up saving you the money they thought they would?
The solar panels are working wonderfully, average electric bill is $15.43 except in Jan and Feb…
I am like an animal with weather knowledge! My arthritic bones are never wrong. I sense the air pressure changing. It is headed by pain. I was twisted with it 2 days ago and sure enough, our really dry weather changed to clouds and a rain shower and today I am nearly pain-free, with my medication of course, and it plans to rain steadily.