Saturday, February 23, 2008

the gwoundhog was white

Occasionally when Clara is really fussy I take her to the bathroom and turn on the tap. It's amazing how it immediately calms her down... until the water is turned off! Turning off the tap is definitely "bringing the whirlwind!" In order to avoid wasting tap water I tried tuning the radio to a frequency between stations, but I couldn't ever get pure static, and the weird sound drove Tanja crazy. Finally, I hit upon http://www.calm-your-screaming-baby.com/soothing-sounds.html. "Water from tap (4)" is where it's at. I wonder how long it will take to climb to the top of my iTunes "top 25 most played" list?

In other white news, this morning we woke up to:


I'm not sure, but I think it might be more accumulation than we've had at any other point so far this winter. Our landlord's backyard sculpture garden looks especially cool with a coating of snow:

1 comment:

Nancy said...

All my requests for allowing comments, and I can't think of anything particularly interesting to say, of course. Anway, we enjoyed brunch yesterday! And now I am obsessed with moving to Paris or Stockholm.