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who ordered the rain?
Oct. 24th, 2014 05:46 pmWe woke up this morning to several new centimeters of snow. Sadly, the day was already warming, and before long the still-falling snow turned to rain. And then back to snow, and then back to rain. It repeated this pattern pretty much all day. I rode in to the office this morning with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lord_kjar, since there was also a strong wind blowing from uni towards our house, and I didn't care to walk into it. I accomplished a few things this morning before my Master's student did his presentation, and then I walked home around lunch time. The mixed rain and snow meant that all of the paths on campus were deep in very wet slush, that had just enough snow in it that foot prints hold their shape. I hope it doesn't freeze again till that stuff melts further and runs into the still-open drains, or the going will be doubly treacherous, since it would then be both slick and painfully lumpy to land upon.
Luckily, most of my walk home was pleasant, since no one had yet traveled upon the new bike path between uni and our neighbourhood, so it looked like smooth pretty snow when I got to it (but my footprints behind me looked very, very wet, so the snow is only a surface layer). Even so, I was a bit tired of walking through it when I was most of the way home, and I opted to take the short cut across the fields rather than go around by the road. This was, perhaps, not the wisest option, since the slushy snow was deeper there, and the underlying ground uneven, which resulted in my boots rubbing painfully against my ankles. Somehow I don't think I will head that way again without skis for the rest of the winter, unless the snowmachines trample a path. And both of those options assume that we will cool back off and get a proper winter, which, of course, remains to be seen.
This evening we have our band over, and I am looking forward to doing music, and we have nothing special planned for tomorrow. Sunday some friends come to visit, and that will be fun. They stay till Monday, and, since I worked today, I don't need to go into the office Monday morning.
lord_kjar, since there was also a strong wind blowing from uni towards our house, and I didn't care to walk into it. I accomplished a few things this morning before my Master's student did his presentation, and then I walked home around lunch time. The mixed rain and snow meant that all of the paths on campus were deep in very wet slush, that had just enough snow in it that foot prints hold their shape. I hope it doesn't freeze again till that stuff melts further and runs into the still-open drains, or the going will be doubly treacherous, since it would then be both slick and painfully lumpy to land upon.Luckily, most of my walk home was pleasant, since no one had yet traveled upon the new bike path between uni and our neighbourhood, so it looked like smooth pretty snow when I got to it (but my footprints behind me looked very, very wet, so the snow is only a surface layer). Even so, I was a bit tired of walking through it when I was most of the way home, and I opted to take the short cut across the fields rather than go around by the road. This was, perhaps, not the wisest option, since the slushy snow was deeper there, and the underlying ground uneven, which resulted in my boots rubbing painfully against my ankles. Somehow I don't think I will head that way again without skis for the rest of the winter, unless the snowmachines trample a path. And both of those options assume that we will cool back off and get a proper winter, which, of course, remains to be seen.
This evening we have our band over, and I am looking forward to doing music, and we have nothing special planned for tomorrow. Sunday some friends come to visit, and that will be fun. They stay till Monday, and, since I worked today, I don't need to go into the office Monday morning.