HIPPYVALLEY

The outdoor NHL game in Minnesota should be chilly tonight.

I hope ya'll have a good trip around the Sun these next 365 days! Happy New Year!

We were at a nice outdoor, bonfire gathering, with friends across town and the fog on the drive home was surreal. Some of the lowest visibility I have ever seen. At least it wasn't snow melting,

Been the same in the CRV.

Well, that’s definitely partially true around here.

Yet unemployment numbers are at record lows. Where the hell are people working?

I have already been sampling but I get paid to do beer quality control so... Happy New Year’s Eve everybody!

What’s that, a 15° departure from normal for your daytime temperature this time of year?

Sure has not been much sun this week. 42° cloudy.

Every supermarket in W MA has help wanted signs up for multiple departments.

https://www.wfsb.com/news/natural-gas-shortage-supply-chain-issues-could-result-in-rolling-blackouts-in-new-england/article_324574c0-5c54-11ec-b193-53802f62a356.html

Fits the theme of the pattern.

Same around here, lots of squirrels, lots of road kill. On another note, my neighborhood is developing a healthy population of black squirrels the past two years. Greenfield and Cambridge are the only two places I’ve ever really seen them.

That’s too bad. They used to do a great job on their steaks. Medium-rare perfection. Try the pulled pork on cinnamon raisin toast down at Moat Brewery sometime. Yum.

My buddy skied Mt Snow yesterday and said it was pretty rough wrt ice and terrain.

The good ole’ April to June wheel of rhea.

With more to come.

I just like safe, affordable transportation. My preference is still a late teens 5 speed manual Subaru Outback. The fact is, is you don't want to use your dollar coupons to support a Chinese company, then you need to be very discerning with your spending. Yes, we have given so much to China and US Presidents and the Congress and those they are beholden too, on both sides of the aisle, are to blame, no matter how uncomfortable that makes some folks.

Nice! We had steady drizzle for a while at 34F but just cloudy now. Glad somebody in NE is getting snow!

That can be more psychologically damaging to some on this forum than actual meteorological winter.

I just had a long discussion with my mechanic about switching over from Subaru to Volvo. He goes out and finds used cars for his clients and he is hot on Volvo in terms of bang for the buck. I'm a long time Subaru driver but he has me strongly considering Volvo. Only problem is I love me a good 5 or 6 speed manual transmission and that isn't really much of an option with Volvo these days or most any other car for that matter. You can still find the C-30's in manual but I need something bigger so Subaru Outback or Jetta Wagon are the only options if I'm going to be stubborn. Anyway I'm on board with considering Volvo XC-90 even though it's an automatic.

So what you are saying, is that in SNE, winter is really just Dec 15th to about Feb 15th? Gawdamn shortest season out of the 4!

I just hope I’m still around for the flip to Day After Tomorrow conditions.