Thank goodness for easy start firelogs.

Including my personal brand:

http://www.recipekey.com/special.php?id=…

Someone needs to buy Mr. Frizzelle some scotch right now.

Yes please, Canuck, anything to forestall another rant about them damn lazy ass gubmint workers again.

Is there anyone out there @2, who DOESN'T know to whom she's referring?

Are you suggesting I have a flair for the obvious, Mr. Comte?

In a liquor emergency, Brissey's bodily fluids are 80 proof

Fuck. Fuck Fuck Fuck. I hate and fear snow like some hate and fear spiders. If they had to drive spiders to work. Fuck.

Geez, Lissa, you couldn't drive spiders to work! They would crawl into your eyes and suck out your brain waaay before you got to work, duh.

What!!! An Unbiased writer has been hired.......where was this logic involving the interns?

@8: Oh so easy for you to say Canuck! You who live in a land of ice and snow. Spiders are dormant now in your neck of the woods so *you* have nothing to fear! Unless Canadian spiders have block heaters? And eight wheel drive?

Lissa, this is an orb weaver (http://www.biology-blog.com/images/blogs…), and can be found FREAKING. ME. OUT. all summer long, hiding under the garden hose, stretched across the front door when I let the dog out, and reminding me that when I read Metropolitan Life when I was 15, and saw the line "nature is what you have to pass through to get from your apartment to the taxi cab," I should have taken it to heart and married a city boy. So, yes, the spiders are dormant, not Hummer-borne at this time of year. Now it's just the usual ice, snow, minus 25c daytime highs, interrupted by the odd blizzard. Aaahh! No spiders....life is good.

How fun!!!! I love a good Seattle snowpocalypse!!! But thank God for link.

Crossing my fingers for a true Seattle whiteout......

@11: Ah the orb weavers. I used to live with a man who raised tarantulas and scorpions. We had a floor to ceiling cupboard in our kitchen containing 10 fish tanks which our little friends called home. I used to let the babies crawl on my hand. Good times. My favorite was the Pink Toe, a beautiful all black little charmer with shocking pink feet. But snow? I actually started to cry a little when I read about it this afternoon, and have been drinking steadily since I got home.

I just google imaged "pink toe tarantula," and my stomach sort of contracted and I got that "falling off the bed" feeling...but snow...mmm, my mom used to let us miss school on the first big snowfall of the year (in Massachusetts) and pull us on a sled to Dunkin Donuts, flakes falling like feathers. Maybe you just need to eat more donuts??

Oh I would love snow if all it involved was sleds and donuts! But you see, during The Great Snow of 2006 into 2007, a Jeep Cherokee T boned me, pushing me into a lamp post. All my windows blew out, both air bags deployed, and the engine climbed out of its compartment and said hi to me through the windshield. My earrings were actually knocked out of my ears, which at the time I found both fascinating and annoying. I loved those earrings! I will never forgive Snow for their loss.

Sweet Jesus, Lissa, no wonder you are quaking! Totally understandable, what with the loss of the earrings and all...seriously, ouch! And although I like the look of snow, driving in it is awful, and the cold temps suck the big one. Some day, if I am very good, perhaps I will be allowed to move to Vancouver.

I'm personally annoyed at the prospect of snow shoving the end of the school year back into July. The last bell of the last day of school shouldn't compete with fireworks, fer cat's sake.

Maybe the Republicans will pass a new law that makes snowstorms illegal. Any party that is so patriotic that they will read the U.S. constitution before they take a shit (all over the American people) in the morning can't be all bad. Or... can they?

I hope the snow misses my neighborhood.

SICK LEAVE

Lissa, from the Calgary Herald this morning:

"Winter weather is returning to Calgary, and the city is bracing for snow, high winds, freezing temperatures and whiteout conditions."

Looks like we're sharing with you...

I hope we get hit with 36 inches of the white stuff followed by temperatures around -5 degrees and then hurricane strength winds.

I like those orb web spiders. Especially the ones with the really cool body colours and big webs that catch the damn mosquitos. Looked up pictures of "pink toe tarantula" too and I have to say soooo damn cute.

Jon Stewart recently avoided using @12's phrasing for a weather front pushing through the region, opting instead for "snowlocaust", which I found to be a welcomed change.

@24 I know right? I've been thinking of getting one again, but both my boyfriends turned pale at the thought and one vowed never to set foot (along with my mother) in my house again if I were to do so. Sad spider is sad!