Winter wonderland

Well it's all new to me.

18°C one day, snowing the next.

Yesterday a nice snow storm coated the city. At about 10am the nice big slow falling flakes began.

By the time we left to go play after lunch it was a whiteout. The city is transformed. The place is much quiter.

I couldn't resist a ride up along the Hudson. Riding in the snow & ice required some sharp reflexes.








Later it started to sleet and then finally rain which wrecked all the snow. With the rain and thousands of feet stomping around the place turns into ice slush. Getting around is interesting. Big puddles of ice slush form at every street corner. If you don't have the right shoes, and a bad knee then jumping the puddles is interesting. Before you know it your feet are wet unless you have the right shoes. Gumboots are a fashionable as well as practical item. More important is grip. The wrong shoes and the wrong leap over an ice puddle and the result is not pretty. Luckily I learned this through observation rather than direct experience.

So within hours I had a new pair of mostly water proof hiking boots so I could stomp through the ice puddles like everyone else.

Little miss was meant to arrive via 2 hour flight from out west last night. The weather meant flight delays of hours, planes stuck sitting on runways waiting for a gate, and I had mental images of a little frozen corpse showing up.

Fortunately she made it just fine. Quite the cutie, and a great personality too.



She has no name yet. The current candidates are Mia and Laura, neither of which I like or think suit her.

And she seems to be the stereotypical pissy puppy... peeing on the carpet every few minutes. Toilet training in the snow & ice is interesting.