A World Gone White and Wet

photo by Gary Starkweather

My folks up in the nether regions of Vancouver Island are getting PUMMELED with weather fronts that include inches and inches of snow. They were told before they moved there two years ago that it NEVER snows in Nanaimo. Both winters have had record amounts of snowfall and ice storms! This morning, I heard on the news of everyone in the midwest getting a good dose of blizzards. Meanwhile in New York City, it's going to be SEVENTY FRIGGN' DEGREES. So much for not enough "proof" that global warming actually exists!

Gouda (pictured above), is probably one of the most neurotic cats I've ever met (and people, I've met some feline FREAKS). When she isn't killing bunnies with her one remaining fang, she meows anxiously, as if the world is coming to an end. Having spent most of her life in the temperate climate of California, I can only IMAGINE what she must be thinking, staring out at this world gone white and wet.