Bother
Friday
– photo by Mitch Waxman
Snow, snow, snow. That’s what we’ve had here in Pittsburgh for the last couple of weeks. One has been as careful as possible, given the ankle situation, but I still have to attend my PT or Physical Therapy appointments twice a week at this point so snow or not – I gotta go. The Mobile Oppression Platform, a Toyota, has been performing ably in these challenging situations. There’s a transmission setting for ‘trail’ onboard, which allows for full all wheel drive and lessens torque in the drive wheels which ameliorates slipping.
This weather has been an absolute misery, which is so much worse for Our Lady of the Pentacle as my infirmity has resulted in her having to shovel the snow, and be the solo walker for Moe the Dog. Moe pees a lot.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
It seems like every 48 hours or so, a new band of winter weather smacks into the area. Temperatures have been frigid as well, single digits at night and never getting out of the 20’s during the day. Today is meant to be relatively warm – 36 degrees – and I’m hoping that this afternoon I can get out and about for a few hours with the camera.
Practice has long been to maintain a couple of weeks worth of photos, ahead of what’s being published here, in order to maintain the daily schedule. The shots you’re looking at right now were developed in photoshop just last night. I hate rushing about.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
There’s the oft mentioned Mobile Oppression Platform in the shot above, caked in snow and ice. That’s my back yard and driveway, if you’re curious, and I shot this one from an open garage door. Why don’t I keep my car in the garage, a certain fellow named George is about to ask…
Answer is that the car is too tall to fit through the 1960’s era garage door.
I use the garage for storage, and I’ve set up a table in it to use as a desk for scanning the news while drinking my morning coffee, and for ‘writing posts’ time. Some variation of the scene above is usually what I’m looking at while jotting off these missives.
Back next week.
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I park in my driveway – never in the garage. Too much of a hassle.
georgetheatheist . . . beep beep
January 17, 2025 at 5:40 pm
my grandfather always bought a Nash Rambler to fit his small garage in Stamford Connecticut.
Jaye Haviland
January 18, 2025 at 10:59 am
The sitch here is that the garage door is 2 inches too short for the car’s roof. Also, not a giant fan of having a series of high capacity hybrid batteries and a full gas tank directly under my bedroom. Cars ‘out gas’ even when they’re turned off.
Mitch Waxman
January 18, 2025 at 11:02 am
I can understand not putting it in the garage even if it fit. I would never. A hobby store just burned down a week ago and took 2 other stores with it. There is video of the fire starting …batteries. remote control vehicles. It was shocking how quickly it progressed.
Jaye Haviland
January 18, 2025 at 3:18 pm
https://www.firehouse.com/operations-training/video/55259916/video-captures-lithium-ion-battery-bursting-into-flames-at-onset-ma-store
Jaye Haviland
January 18, 2025 at 3:22 pm