Robot Claw

We had about a foot of snow on friday, and the snow continued lightly yesterday and has picked up again today (sunday). We’re supposed to get a few more inches today. The weather forecast is for flurries to continue more or less every day during Christmas, with the possibility of bigger snow next friday and saturday.

In other words: this year is a very white Christmas!

Needless to say it’s great to be able to use the snowthrower again 🙂

What makes this snowfall more enjoyable is the fact that it is ‘fluffy’ snow that falls slowly (except on friday…) and has well developed snowflakes. ‘Textbook snow’, if you will.

Here’s a shot I took yesterday of a snowflake on the car window. Hopefully you can see the detail (it was only about 3mm across). I may have to try for more shots like this using the microscope option on my camera.

Did I spell it correctly?

Our Christmas tree is up and it looks lovely.

< Glorious!

We only have a few decorations in it at the moment. Here’s a shot of one of them:

We’re at ‘The Standard’, a new restaurant at the mall with kind of a ‘brat pack’ vibe. Seems like good news on the homefront, with the power company rep telling me this morning that service would resume this afternoon. When we left home the new pole was waiting to be put up and the cleanup crew (to get the leaked oil) were in place. So here’s hoping for a warm night tonight!

Here’s what I think of the need for an environmental analysis before power is resumed :<

Finally some news! Earlier this evening I went and had a chat with a power company guy who was sitting in his truck outside the house with the downed power line. Turns out the delay in repairing this pole is due to the smashed transformer having leaked oil into the ground. Now they need to wait for an ‘environmental guy’ to come look at things. The bottom line: he says hopefully we’ll have power by monday night. Which is 2 days from now. Only 6 houses in our street remain powerless – all due to this downed line. Here’s hoping…