snow in seattle

it's kind of a big deal.
snow in washington is not like snow in anchorage, where i had been 24 hrs previously. snow here falls on obscene hills; it is wet and dense and covered with instant skins of ice; there are no plows or sanders or salt to deal with it; very few people have studs or 4WD or, at least in my case, an ice scraper.
nevertheless, i'm embarassed: by my regional inexpertise despite many years of driving in alaskan winters; by my wimpy lower-48 car; by having to call in to work yesterday because i couldn't move my car out of its parking spot, much less to and from north seattle. i felt like quite the moron.
my lair, yesterday morning.

sledders at 1st and stewart.

broadway, today. note the utter lack of plowing. the snow, by this afternoon, was that mushy exhausting consistency. now it's powdery with a satisfyingly crunchy crust. snow brulee.

my neighborhood this evening.

gruel simmering at the lair. potatoes, basmati rice, 2 boullion cubes, a shit-ton of curry powder, a bunch of garam masala, a bunch of cumin. it needs salt upon devouring but otherwise... it satisfies in a sad way.
when i was ultra-poor, i lived on instant oatmeal topped with dried oregano for months. add salt and cayenne and, if yer feeling extra-saucy, dried minced onion, and DAMN: savory cold-weather victuals. try it!

the street right now.

the filtered lair, just now.

i feel like i'm showing a new toy to a dog. "isn't this FUN?" when it's really not all that interesting. i'm stir-crazy and jangly. my mind is focused on other things.