tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18213663.post2053059419544286166..comments2024-02-05T10:19:47.449-05:00Comments on A Frolic through Time: Period Costuming and the Occasional Side Trip: Three Snows in a Row: Unusual Here in Central KentuckyZipZiphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02086335016901683883noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18213663.post-91619732438445265812021-03-01T11:16:35.335-05:002021-03-01T11:16:35.335-05:00Dear Quinn,
Let's see, there's skating an...Dear Quinn,<br /><br />Let's see, there's skating and snoeshowing, and cross-country skiing, and tramping through the woods to enjoy the fairyland of snow-covered everything. And all of the indoor fun. You have all kinds of opportunities! I can get homesick for my snowy hometown of Ithaca...so am glad that you're taking advantage of it all.<br /><br />Very best,<br /><br />NatalieZipZiphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04088551086336264968noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18213663.post-16563797964016871392021-02-22T21:23:25.841-05:002021-02-22T21:23:25.841-05:00The sledding looks like great fun! Despite having ...The sledding looks like great fun! Despite having lots of snow here I haven't been sledding yet. I've been too busy with other winter activities. :) It's good that the birds, and the people, made it through the cold.<br /><br />Best,<br />QuinnThe Quintessential Clothes Penhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13291041428539466457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18213663.post-31782780283181662442021-02-21T15:01:04.268-05:002021-02-21T15:01:04.268-05:00Good afternoon, Sabine and Mrs. C. and Val!
Run o...Good afternoon, Sabine and Mrs. C. and Val!<br /><br />Run outside and immediately lose footing and plop on the patootie? Oh yes. That's why Curte didn't want me out in the back yard today. It's thawing and the layers of solid ice are exposed in spots. <br /><br />I didn't know birds wouldn't hang out in palms! How interesting. I guess the fronds won't bear their weight. Nuts...<br /><br />Mrs. C., public utilities exist but in this area they're mostly in rural areas. We have electric cooperatives across Kentucky, and they're helpful organizations. They have banded together with other cooperatives in surrounding states to get fallen trees off roads and power lines in the mountain counties. In Jackson County I understand much of the electric grid is going to have to be rebuilt, and there's a pole, they reported in this morning's newspaper, that has been taken out three times so far by falling trees. The mountains are heavily wooded. <br /><br />There are public water utilities, too, but many are very small, serving serving isolated and struggling communities in the mountains, and dealing with leaky pipes, mismanagement, people siphoning water off, and polluted water from the remains of coal and oil extraction. <br /><br />Sabine, yes! That's very much what I felt out in the snow. Childhood came immediately back and I sledded just as hard as the twins and their boy and girl buddies. Some of the happiest moments in ages. In fact, I put a video Christopher took of me heading downhill on a sled made from tape-wrapped cardboard, string, and a discarded swimming board. It was as fast as the other sleds.<br /><br />Hugs to all three of you,<br /><br />NatalieZipZiphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04088551086336264968noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18213663.post-8963735392351882592021-02-19T19:48:45.166-05:002021-02-19T19:48:45.166-05:00I would love to have all those birds to feed in my...I would love to have all those birds to feed in my backyard, but we have no trees, other than a couple small palms, which no self-respecting bird would hang around those. I know even my cat Chloe misses chattering to the birds in the yard at our old house. <br />I think your yard looks so pretty with all the snow and ice. I'd probably run out there and immediately fall on my butt, which I did on my Mom's front steps the first time I was there and she had some snow. <br />ValTime Traveling in Costumehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02353351035426201805noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18213663.post-48518263128723863022021-02-19T02:41:15.096-05:002021-02-19T02:41:15.096-05:00Oh my word!!! What a strange and beautiful and dis...Oh my word!!! What a strange and beautiful and disconcerting time. I've been feeling hard for Texans in power outages. A massive fail in privatising amenities. :(<br />Thank you for looking after the birds. It goes to show just how warm feathers can be that they are getting through the cold!MrsC (Maryanne)https://www.blogger.com/profile/14440723067459232998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18213663.post-16428351994813708102021-02-19T01:04:23.264-05:002021-02-19T01:04:23.264-05:00Dear Natalie,
we've had similar weather the p...Dear Natalie,<br /> we've had similar weather the past week with ice and snow, very low temperatures, high winds, puffy and hungry birds and squirrels (and even a fox)...then on the third day it stopped ice-raining and snowing and we've been smiled at from blue skies...I enjoyed the walks in the white blanket, the silence, only accompanied by the steps in the deep snow (the sound we find when wringing silk with the hands)...it instantly sets me back to the winters of my long ago childhood days, which suddenly felt like happening only yesterday.<br />After years and years of bland seasons this winter brought lots of water for our dried out woods and maybe the cold helped to reduce the beetle infested trees to get rid of their plague...but most of all it spurs the longing for spring more than ever!<br /><br />Stay safe and keep warm,<br />SabineKleidung um 1800https://www.blogger.com/profile/09187943106849398728noreply@blogger.com