The gig’s up. Tomorrow it snows. That means I’m spending as much time outside with the dogs as possible today. I took the dogs on a long hike by the Mississippi.
The walk was a little too long for Harley’s taste.
He’ll get over it.
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March 23rd, 2011 Minneapolis has a week of 50-degree temperatures, I run around in my funny shoes declaring that spring is here…and we get a snowstorm. I get up at 6 a.m. to shovel the apartment building’s sidewalks but I run out of salt because I (foolishly) thought that we were done with winter. After work I went to the Uptown Frattallone’s Ace Hardware store for salt and deicer. I didn’t realize that the slush-water mix in front of Frattallone’s was a foot deep, so traffic got a jump-slide-splash-fail show. No one tipped. My apartment building’s sidewalks are completely caked in snow when I come home from work. Shoveling without salting is a waste of time because the snow just blows right over everything. I am surprised that no one left me another bitchy note. It took 3 hours to shovel and walk the dogs. I need someone to invent roll-out salt carpet for the sidewalks, grass be dammed. The weather man promised warmth next week. For now, I freeze. March 13th, 2011 So I completely thought we were over this winter thing and then we got another blizzard. Don’t get me wrong, winter is pretty in Minneapolis…
…but I am over this winter thing. I don’t even like wearing winter clothes anymore out of some subconscious form of protest. Sigh. I feel like a crabby old man, and winter needs to get off my lawn. March 11th, 2011 See, this is how you do it.
If you are going to spin out your car, you should do it in a way that could be mistaken for an aggressive winter parking job. That way, the city won’t tow you right away.
March 9th, 2011 More snow, shoveling, slush and dirt.
I want to start running outside and biking to work again, but I also do not believe in winter biking, so this winter thing needs to pass. It’s inconvenient. Right now my workouts are limited to 5-mile walks around the lakes with the dogs and 2 hour elliptical sessions at the gym. Why 2 hour sessions? Because the elliptical has an attached TV and Bravo has too many hour long shows. Yes, I go to the gym to watch TV. February 19th, 2011
I’m sure it was a good idea at the time. February 18th, 2011 February 16th, 2011 The snow is melting but I still have all these unedited snow-caked pictures! Excuse me while I toss them on the page for the record…
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