Yesterday Fred from “Fragments from Floyd” posted an entry entitled “Eating Nemo.” Not to be outdone, I thought I’d show you how we do it here in New Hampshire. (You could caption this picture “Frozen Fish” or “Ice Fishing,” but “Freezing Nemo” just has a certain ring to it, don’t you think?) Instead of removing our snow and then fleeing to more temperate climes like any sane person would, we stick around and play with our snow. Maybe our state motto of “Live free or die” should be changed to “Live free and freeze!”
It was -14 degrees Fahrenheit (and still half dark) when I walked the dog into town this morning, so the leftover ice and snow sculptures from this weekend’s Festival were still frigidly intact. (Someone had smashed the corporate-sponsored ice sculptures in the Square, but that’s another story.) Minus 14 degrees Fahrenheit, for those of you familiar with Centigrade temperatures, translates to “Really Freakin’ Cold, Celsius.” There was, luckily, no wind chill this morning, just unmoving air that instantaneously freezes your nose-hairs when you inhale. By the time we’d trotted (quickly!) around the Square and back, Reggie had a frost mustache and an icicle (eye-cicle?) dangling from the corner of one watery eye. It’s that freakin’ cold!
Feb 16, 2004 at 8:29 am
Or, Live Freeze and Die. Stay warm!
Feb 16, 2004 at 9:04 am
Aw shucks, and I was just beginning to *miss* winter (as though we have such a thing, here, in this part of Canada).
Feb 16, 2004 at 10:08 am
Way Kewl Fish! Freezing is probably a less offensive thing to do to poor l’il Nemo. I’ve caught flak for eating him!
Feb 16, 2004 at 12:05 pm
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Kevin
Feb 16, 2004 at 1:10 pm
How amazing!
Well done on submitting the chapter, by the way. Thesis/dissertation writing is hard yakka.
(Sorry, Australianism. Hard yakka is equivalent to hard work.)
Feb 16, 2004 at 4:25 pm
Hey there, everyone. Thanks for dropping by…
Amy, I like your state motto better than mine: spoken like a REAL Granite Stater! (I’m still too much of an Ohioan to really fit in…)
Tonio, I’d imagine that up in your part of Canada, you’d be used to the cold right about now. If you ever feel like you’re not getting enough of it, let me know & I’ll send some your way!
Fred, if people were offended by eating Nemo, what kind of response did you get from your Ground (wood)Chuck post? If eating fish is a no-no, eating rodents must not be much better.
Kevin, I love the link: tasty! But I think you should have said “SERVED” without comment…
Ivy, “hard yakka” is certainly what writing that chapter felt like. Now I wait to see what my committee thinks, so stay tuned…
BTW, it’s much warmer now: 21 degrees versus negative 14. A NH heat wave!
Feb 16, 2004 at 8:45 pm
I remember how cold it was when I was an undergraduate at Middlebury College, although somehow then it all seemed very adventurous and chic. Now as a woman “d’une certaine age” in Cleveland, the cold is less amusing. Sometimes I fantasize about moving to warmer climes, but then I say, “Nah!” because somehow that will probably lead to going to dinner at 4:30 for the Early Bird Special. So I just tough it out in a somewhat macho way and try to appreciate the breathtaking beauty (which is not insignificant!) of it all. Love the sculpture!
Feb 16, 2004 at 9:21 pm
Lois, that age-related euphemism sounds SO much more elegant & refined in French, don’t you think? Glad you liked the snow sculpture: I thought it was kinda cool. (No pun intended!)