Signs of Winter
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The calendar says it is still autumn, but there are lots of signs of winter around.
There is a flock of geese that live across the road, but they wander freely in the neighborhood, grazing beside the road and in empty fields. A Christmas goose is a favorite Faroese Christmas dinner.
The past few days I have been watching as the snow on the peaks of the mountains slowly moved down lower and lower. Last night when I went to choir, I drove slowly and carefully on frozen roads and zig-zagged up the hill instead of driving up the steep streets. I’m not very comfortable driving in snow and ice, since there is never snow on the roads in the San Francisco area where I come from.
This morning, the road by my house was covered with snow, with just a couple of tire tracks leading down to the little factory by the bay. At noon it is zero degrees Celsius, 32 degrees Fahrenheit. I can stand by my window and watch the wind blow across the bay, and I feel a jolt when it hits my house.
Today I am wearing my warmest winter sweater. It is one I knitted a couple of years ago, and left here in the Faroes to use when I visit here, since the sweater is too warm to wear in California. I made the sweater before I lost 50 pounds, so now if I pull it down it also keeps my legs warm.
October 28th, 2008 at 2:35 pm
We’re having our first really chilly day of the year here in North Carolina, and your pictures of the snow made me shiver! I don’t recall that you get too deep an accumulation, though, even in the dead of winter. Am I right about that? I’m trying to recall your posts from last season. The wandering geese, by the way, are a wonderful sight… I’m going to make sure my wife sees these.
October 30th, 2008 at 12:45 am
Oh, that looks much less fun that the previous batch. Brrr! I’m getting cold just looking at the pictures!
November 29th, 2008 at 4:37 am
Hi, Jenny,
We had roasted goose, too! We enjoyed it along with roast pork, memorial pastries, etc., a few weeks ago at the gravesite of my grandfather in rural southern China when Steve and I and Jeremy and Stephanie journeyed. As for weather, we were afraid of chilly weather in Beijing so had taken too much long underwear, but it was rather pleasant. See you in a few weeks in sunny California.
Shirley
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