hunkering down
Dec. 28th, 2006 04:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ilanaramaIt's finally started to snow; the storm that was predicted to hit yesterday mostly bypassed us and is whomping Denver instead. We're not expected to get near as much as they will, just as in the pre-Christmas storm that closed DIA for days, when we only got a couple of inches. (Not that this wasn't without drama, as some of you already know. More about that in another post.)
The interesting thing (to me) is that these storms really underline our dependency on Stuff What Is Shipped In. I was supposed to bring fruit and vegetable trays to the inlaws' for Christmas, and the grocery store - the huge, national-chain store - looked kind of like the Staniel Cay grocery on the day before the mailboat arrives. Okay, maybe not quite that bare. But there was only a tiny bit of fresh stuff, and what there was looked pretty pathetic indeed. This week they have barely restocked (and then been cleaned out), and it's looking as though what with New Year's holiday coming up, between that and the storm we won't be getting much else.
Well, I don't care. I've got a well-stocked pantry (okay, not as stocked as on the boat, but decent!) and booze in the liquor cabinet. And I have internet, of course (yay!) Blow, wind, crack your cheeks! Let it snow! And all that.
The interesting thing (to me) is that these storms really underline our dependency on Stuff What Is Shipped In. I was supposed to bring fruit and vegetable trays to the inlaws' for Christmas, and the grocery store - the huge, national-chain store - looked kind of like the Staniel Cay grocery on the day before the mailboat arrives. Okay, maybe not quite that bare. But there was only a tiny bit of fresh stuff, and what there was looked pretty pathetic indeed. This week they have barely restocked (and then been cleaned out), and it's looking as though what with New Year's holiday coming up, between that and the storm we won't be getting much else.
Well, I don't care. I've got a well-stocked pantry (okay, not as stocked as on the boat, but decent!) and booze in the liquor cabinet. And I have internet, of course (yay!) Blow, wind, crack your cheeks! Let it snow! And all that.