Ice Ice Baby

It was an interesting week. We had a dinner party last weekend, which was nice. And then Tim decided that he'd really like a telescope, so he went to an astronomy club meeting. And my mother said some things that scared me (the words "pinky ring" and "your father" were uttered in the same sentence), but we got that straightened out. And Aunt Flow came over & made me miserable for a while (A bleeding Mary is a melodramatic Mary). And to top it all off, there was an ENORMOUS ice storm.

Well, there was an ice storm in Oklahoma, at any rate. But not here. No, it was unseasonably warm & occasionally sunny around here. Notice the woman in shorts in the above photo. Shorts, for gawd's sake! Such apparel is not proper in January, Indeed, I felt it wasn't quite warm enough outside for shorts on the particular day in question. But it was unusually warm. One might even say it has been "toasty" lately, but only if you're talking about the kind of toast that has been sitting on a plate for a while so that it has gotten a bit cool but has still retained some heat and has accumulated a bit of condensation on the plate-side so that it has become slightly damp underneath. Yeah. That's the kinda toasty weather we've had. It isn't moist, but there's a bit of moisture in the air from the occasional fit of rain.

Nevertheless, it has been fairly sunny & we've even ventured outdoors without coats. One of those occasions occured yesterday when, in an effort towards empathy, we went out in search of ice. Flavorful ice on a stick, to be precise. And that lead us to Locopops, a little shop that sells gourmet Mexican-style popsicles. In those brief moments while we sucked on our popsicles, it felt almost as though we, too, were frozen under two inches of ice with our loved ones. Almost.

By the by, I got the chocolate brownie & Tim got strawberries & cream. We are nothing if not .... painfully boring. We'll get something exotic next time. Promise.


Speaking of Scooby Doo, we bought the telescope. We looked at Saturn & star clusters last night! Yay!