Right on Q…

So, if one puts any stock into the Weather Channel’s invented, hurricanesque “storm names” for winter storms – names that are their invention and not recognized or sanctioned (but are, in all likelihood, giggled at) by the actual Weather Service – we are being hit by “Winter Storm Q” right now. (Winter Storm Khan hit another part of the country a few weeks ago.) Right now, we’ve got snow transitioning into something harder and nastier, sleet and little ice pellets. As if my exile to the house needed to be formalized somehow, me and the boy are stuck here for a while.

And so is Coco the horse, who belongs to the person who’s renting our pasture from us. She’s been hanging out by the house and talking to us. I think it translates roughly to “Okay, the dogs went in the house and got to warm up… when is it my turn?” (Your attention is directed to the covered structure with horse-sized openings, commonly referred to as a “barn”, over in your pasture, horsie friend.)

The heaters are fired up, extra blankets are on the bed, the dogs are toasty and sleepy, was has foods… I think we might just survive. Bring it on, “Q”*.

* I am serving notice to the Weather Channel at this time that I refuse to formally acknowledge this winter storm as “Q”. I hereby propose an equally official name for this storm: Dr. & Mrs. Eunice Bertlesby, Esq., Inc., LLP. Face it, it makes about as much sense as Q.