I haven't been to the pools in the last couple of days but one is going to be closed again even after the weather warms up. Barton was flooded by the 4+ inches of rain we had earlier and will need to be cleaned up again.

Things are well covered with ice around my house and it is beginning to snow with white stuff accumulating on the ground. Hah! Dan S. just called and said he owed me a scotch as we had a bet, me saying it was going to snow and him being a disbeliever.

I had fixed up a box with a warm towel for Blackie outside my kitchen and when I went to bed last night she was in there trying to hibernate. This morning her water bowl was frozen, now broken through, and the towel stiff and frozen too but now in the drier warming up.

Studio warming, soon to paint.

Questionable, will UT be open tomorrow? There is a study abroad fair I was to attend to at noon and the way things look, that is going to be a wash, or should I say a freeze.

Tags: barton, blackie, flood, pool, school., snow, swimming, weather
Current Mood: inside
Current Music: WFMU - "Love Zombies" by The Monochrome Set

On uberdionysus's recommendation I watched In einem Jahr mit 13 Monden, In a Year With 13 Moons, tonight. I found it far more interesting than The Third Generation the other Fassbinder film I watched recently. Same multi layered sound track with movie, TV music mixing with dialog all in german. Difficult in that sense to follow. Elvira (formerly Erwin) spends the last days of her/his desperate, lonely life. Not a happy camper, full of despair and decadence. My morbid side was fascinated by the slaughterhouse scenes.

I'm forecasting snow sometime in the next couple days here. This afternoon, Blackie, the outdoor cat I take care of came to the kitchen window, soaking wet, to eat . Poor thing, it's cold out there but she will not come inside. Instead I pulled her in through the window and toweled her off. She's been a strictly outside camper for the 8 years I've known her. She stays in the yard and has a couple of places to ride out the freezing weather ahead. Last sight of her tonight she was fluffed up and dry.

Tags: blackie, cat, film, snow, weather
Current Mood: chilly
Current Music: WFMU - Tony Coulter's show