Comments on: Snowy Sunday

By: Ski Montana

Ski Montana — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 20:25:49 +0000

Enjoyed reading your article – I will stop by again in the near future to check up on your latest news. love the pic – oh I’m sad the season is over – Trent

By: bloglily

bloglily — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 16:12:38 +0000

Hello Very public socio–logist! And welcome again. England in the snow; so very beautiful. I am writing another novel, set largely in London, and it will be snowing through much of it, the way it was in the 16th century –so much snow, in fact, that the Thames will freeze. Now, I know that’s not likely at all, given global warming, but it’s not UTTERLY unlikely so, mainly because I like the way the world looks in the snow, it’s going to happen in that book.

By: a very public sociologist

a very public sociologist — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:49:46 +0000

That’s beautiful. It has me aching for the time we used to get snow in my part of England.

By: bloglily

bloglily — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 21:05:26 +0000

Ben, OOOO. What a brilliant idea. I’d guess it was pretty cheap last week. But it’s warming up. And yes, I love Columbia — it’s a really charming place. We panned for gold there with our boys and then took a stagecoach ride. They loved it. So did I!

Tai — It would be so lovely. Except not yellow. Bad color for snow.

Ms. HMH — I love it that you make your black bean soup from your cover crop. (Is it called a cover crop?) It sounds wonderful.

Thanks gentle reader, fellow Bay Arean — and yes, it’s good to know your maternal function and stay within it, as long as you got to choose it in the first place, that is.

Tiv — Any day now, any day now and then BAM, spring.

Ah, Sandi, what a good point. I think they recognize the tasty/cozy thing because they don’t get it that often! Scarcity is my watchword.

Emily, On skis, I am mocked terribly by my boys, and I am actually an okay skier. But then that is another of my maternal functions apparently.

Thank you LK — In fact, fun was had! xo, BL

By: ombudsben

ombudsben — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 05:10:59 +0000

Bloglily: Sonora! I love Sonora. I don’t get up there often enough, and now it’s been discovered and Hwy 49 is often jammed. Still, I do like to get up to the Gold Country.

My wife remembers Columbia when she was little, growing up nearby on an orchard outside Modesto. My parent’s first date was to see the movie High Noon, filmed in part in Columbia. When we took them there they recognized buildings, scenes, all these years later.

Do not forsake me oh my darling …

One of the hotels in Columbia ties their midwinter weekday room rates to the temperature. Thirty degrees that night? Then you pay $30 for the room.

By: Tai

Tai — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:30:11 +0000

Oh, what an image. Have you ever imagined what it would be like if snow wasn’t white? What if snow was robin’s egg blue or pea green? I think I would like a blizzard of pale, dusty-rose snow.

By: healingmagichands

healingmagichands — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 20:07:07 +0000

Mmm. black bean soup. We love that here, as well as navy bean soup. The cool thing right now is since I have been using black beans as a second “cover” crop for the onion bed, I have home grown black beans to use for soup making. It was several years ago that I discovered that the freshly dried homegrown black beans are much tastier and have a better texture in the soup than the ones I could buy at the organic food store. I am not sure why this is so, since the ones I grow have to be dried before I shell them. Maybe it is because they are fresher than the ones you are buying at the store.

I love that picture, makes me long for the long lost days of my youth when we lived at 8400 feet in Colorado only 10 miles from the local ski area. Those were the days!

By: gentle reader

gentle reader — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 19:25:08 +0000

No, I’m from the Bay Area I always loved the poetry of the name of our little vacation spot, Twain Harte, and of course when I found out who it was named for I had to read “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”, which turned me into a Mark Twain fan at an early age.

Like litlove, I like your “maternal function” during your ski trip! And I love your photo

By: Tiv

Tiv — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 17:13:46 +0000

Dreamy vacation. I’m sick of the east coast and its wet snow.

By: sandi

sandi — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 04:18:13 +0000

What a wonderful mission–to make things tasty and comfy. And what a wonderful treat to have that actually recognized by family members. In my experience, the ones making things tasty and comfy aren’t always seen and noticed.

By: Emily Barton

Emily Barton — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 02:51:09 +0000

Oh, I think I want to move there! And how wonderful that your only job was to make things more tasty and comfy and that no one was busy dragging you out on skis. (If I lived in a family of boys, I’m sure that’s what they’d all do if for no other reason than all the hilarious “Mom-on-skis” stories.)

By: LK

LK — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 21:50:53 +0000

Sounds like a perfect getaway. Have fun!

By: bloglily

bloglily — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 16:56:38 +0000

Litlove, I did have fun. It helped that there were so many eager parents who wanted to gatekeep (i.e., stand around in the blizzard) that I got to spend the entire day Sunday in the lodge. The photo is the view out my window. You’re always that much warmer when others are that much colder.

Archie, I read this morning that this problem is “spreading.” I love that. Sprawling paragraphs have gone viral.

My dear Gentle Reader, That’s right! I’d forgotten that you aren’t an LA girl. I love it that there’s a compound literary named town in the gold country, one that honors that often neglected poet, Bret Harte and of course one of the greatest of all American writers, Mark Twain. Twain Harte! Yay.

Hey Kate — I’m so glad. My life is made that much better because I get to write about it and, thus, take the edge off things like blizzards and long drives, and lost ski mittens.

By: litlove

litlove — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 08:24:11 +0000

It sounds like you had a wonderful time! I laughed so much when I read your description of your maternal function in all this!

By: archiearchive FCD

archiearchive FCD — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 04:43:18 +0000

Re Paragraphs; I use Firefox and I sometimes have problems with paragraphs! Sometimes I have to be very inventive with HTML coding to get them to appear. So it is not only a Safari difficulty. Perhaps it is the theme I use – dunno, all to complicated for an unedjumicated antipodean.