Here it comes again...

[altivo]

Snow. In spite of the growing anxiety and drama of the forecast over the last 24 hours, which usually is a harbinger of a total dud, I can see the forming storm clouds on the radar out over Iowa. The current prediction for my location is up to eight inches accumulating overnight, falling at rates as high as two inches per hour during the peak of the storm. That's really heavy snowfall. We'll see. I'm skeptical at the moment. Looks like we'll get something, but I doubt it will be that dramatic.

Gary went shopping at a notorious weird surplus store in Chicago today while chauffeuring his mom around. It's a place we used to visit often when we lived in the city, but I haven't been back in probably ten years. Anyway, he brought back two things: a set of glow-in-the-dark plastic sheep, and a flat pony. The sheep are apparently supposed to be assembled into a sort of mobile for a baby's room. They do glow in the dark, I tested them.

The flat pony is apparently a throw rug. You know how they used to make bears into rugs, with the preserved head still attached at one end? Well, this is a little throw rug made of plush fabric, with a horse tail on one end and a horse head on the other. It even has non-skid rubber bumps on the bottom side.

OK, time to go start up the woodstove, I think...

Comments

[lobowolf.livejournal.com]

Ugh...which means we'll get it a day or two later. I always know what the weather is going to be like around here by reading your posts :)

I have a wolf version of the "bear rug." I got it out of some catalog a few years ago.

February...truly the heart of the winter malaise. We had a week of nice warm weather, which I knew was a tease..now we're back to cold, snow, and wind (and will be for another 6 weeks)..still, in 6 weeks, it'll be April!

[schnee.livejournal.com]

I'd like a wolf version of a rug like that, too. :) (Well, as long as it's faux.)

[cozycabbage.livejournal.com]

How is it that I caught 'snow' and 'anxiety' in the same eyeful and saw 'sexy'?

[cabcat.livejournal.com]

A flat pony, what a strange concept o.O?

[altivo.livejournal.com]

It is strange all right. I have to get a picture of it.

[soanos.livejournal.com]

Aww... Poor pony. Can I make it better? o.O

[altivo.livejournal.com]

I think he's supposed to be that way. ;p

[soanos.livejournal.com]

Hmm... What if I blew hard enough? Maybe it would make him a bit more erect?

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Tsk. He's made of fabric, so I don't think it would make any difference at all. ;p

[soanos.livejournal.com]

...oh. :/

[altivo.livejournal.com]

I'll get a photo of him soon. He's cute, in a tragic sort of way.

Off topic, but you'll probably like this picture of a Grevy's zebra that Heather Bruton just did.

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/2052989/

[soanos.livejournal.com]

Awww... He still sounds cute.

By the way, I prepurchased the deck now so I will get it asap. :)

Nice work too.