Yes, We Have No Bananas Today in Everyday Ramblings

Yesterday afternoon the parking lot of my local grocery was a mad house. I have never seen it like that before, even on the day before Thanksgiving. There was no spinach left (except two plastic containers of sorry looking 50/50), very little lunchmeat, (this is not a vegan neighborhood) there was a guy on the floor restocking the seriously empty bread shelves from the bottom up. And piles of oranges where the bananas are supposed to be.

Welcome to Climate Change.

After a lovely accessible fall and early winter we are in for it: no, not the Polar Vortex but at least 10 days of snow, rain, and ice.

Just imagine your whole outside world covered in a thin sheet of ice. Some of you, I know don’t have to imagine it but if I may posit it is something you deal with every year and I commend you for that.

We have barely any snow removal equipment though I do think we stockpiled gravel after our last snow event. Our biggest issue dealing with this is the temperature. It doesn’t get much below freezing, it hovers maddeningly at freezing so what moisture we have on the ground melts and freezes and melts and freezes locking in a city wide unsafe skating rink.

I know, I am whining when I have so very much to be grateful for.

If I lived somewhere where this happened every year I would have a lifestyle that does not depend on and thrive on walking everywhere.

That is the issue. Logistics.

I have Shovelina (my beloved red snow shovel), I have grippers, I have trek poles. I can deal. They will plow and treat the big street out front and the buses will run.

My order of three big bags of bird food came a few days ago after being hung up in the Polar Vortex travel nightmare for over a week. I have kitty litter and lots of cat food. I have tea and caffeine in pill form and enough chocolate that if I ration it I will be fine.

This just brings out the Princess in me. Tomorrow is Kes’s birthday and I was going to go down to where she lives and take her and Most Honorable out to lunch. We will Skype instead. I rescheduled for two weeks out but even that is iffy with the forecast as it is now.

Monday is the day my class was advertised to start for the whole church community. It looks like the ability to have class there is going to be in question for the duration. So this is it safe, can we get there okay, can we get home calculation is crazy making. I will have to make a decision by about noon because based on work stuff I won’t have time to do anything but gear up and go at the end of my workday.

Whine whine whine. What I need is a boyfriend with four-wheel drive, health insurance, a love of yoga and poetry and a full active life of his own. :) Is that too much to ask? Oh he has to have a fondness for rowdy head-butting gray cats too.

Work is awful. Like the weather, everything is changing and one has to adapt. I have come up with a new technique to deal. I just don’t talk at all to the people in question. It is kind of like a situational vow of silence.

I am making a big pot of brown rice. I have beans to put in the slow cooker. I have lots of fruit and veggies from my Imperfect box delivery last Monday. It is quiet and warm and I have internet and all is well.

Oh and I have two bananas left. :)

(I took the picture Wednesday night up on the PSU campus where they were putting in this elaborate light installation for the opening of the new sports center.)