it figures

[piranha]

so for the last several weeks it's been unseasonably cold here; below freezing every night. we've been muttering under our breath about the firewood not being here yet, and putting on another layer of clothing. yesterday the landlord comes over and says "oh yeah, the firewood: i finally talked with the guy, and he's gonna deliver it next week, probably even tomorrow". yay, we go. and he did; the paramour heard the tractor when it was still on the cross street. we just got done stacking up 3/4 of a cord. we're getting good at this; we put it away pretty fast.

and wouldn't you know, last night a warm front moved in, and it's now above freezing. it was raining when the wood was delivered. it always rains when the wood is delivered; just so that we hurry up and stack it instead of taking our time. one can almost hear the dry wood slurping up the moisture. *sigh*.

if all goes according to the fate with the penchant (pension -- *heh*) for irony, it'll now keep raining into february.

also, the paramour cleaned zir telescope. i think that is probably directly responsible for fog and rain moving in.

Comments

[dr-brat.livejournal.com]

if all goes according to the fate with the pension for irony, it'll now keep raining into february.

While the idea of fate making a regular payment to irony is intriguing, I'm wondering if you don't mean "penchant."

I wish we had a fireplace. I don't want a stove, but I wish we had even one fireplace.

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

you're right, that's what i meant. wow, that's a real live wordo; i didn't even notice on rereading.

from an aesthetic point of view i like fireplaces better than stoves too, but for the heating value nothing that burns wood beats this ugly iron thing.

Did you perchance wash a car?

[(Anonymous)]

That's a well known way to cause rain.

Re: Did you perchance wash a car?

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

hahaha! wash a car! yeah, that'd be the day.

[1ginko.livejournal.com]

Yeah! for heat!

It is cold, cold, cold, here. I did not plastic cover the bad windows because we are looking at tearing into that portion of the house very soon *if all goes as planned*. Thus the house is colder than usual, and the weather itself is colder than usual. The. Long. Cold. Winter.

Heading north soon.

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

heading north soon will alas not help you avoid the long cold winter -- unless you were to head way, way west as well. :) we do normally have most uncanadian weather here (it's now back up to around 10°C and raining, which is as it should be).