When my mother was a young California girl, she and her friends used to joke that only San Franciscans could tell the difference between low clouds and high fog.
Whaddaya think? High fog? Low clouds?
Water has been falling out of the sky since the middle of last night. It’s evening and rain is still sprinkling down. When Cassie and I went out for a short walk during a brief break, herds of fat, pregnant-looking clouds were practically kissing the ground, they were so low. Before we got back to the house the misty air was coalescing into a fine, powdery rain, dappling the puddles with tiny wave rings.
Speaking of San Francisco, the home of high fog and A Gai Shan Life, Revanche has thrown over the Rx traces and is steadily making progress on her health self-help plan.
At I Pick Up Pennies, Abigail wants to do something extra-special for Tim this Valentine’s Day, after the difficult year they’ve had. Ideas are invited!
Donna Friedman reflects eloquently on Abigail’s recent loss of a third pregnancy, grief, and the fragility of life.
There’s a really cute anecdote at Blue-Collar Workman, contributed by a guest author.
After taking on a new house with all its attendant increased expenses, Evan takes yet another plunge on his Journey to Millions: starts an investment club.
101 Centavos has been visiting Korea in the dead of winter — nice timing, that. Along the way he takes time for a rant on annoying food labels engineered by machinating special interests.
Frugal Scholar sings a paean to the world’s greatest organizing tool.
Noticed any change in food prices lately? Money Beagle sure has — especially where fresh veggies are concerned.
Brip-Blap has a nice rumination on what makes a great job.
Along the same lines, eemusings reflects on whether one really can expect to love one’s job.
Mrs. PoP publishes a new “He Said – She Said” conundrum at Planting our Pennies. Very interesting.
At The Frugal Girl, Kristen hits a nerve with her readers when she considers how to tell when one has too much stuff.
Free Money Finance addresses the question of how much umbrella insurance one needs, and why.
Budgeting in the Fun Stuff runs a nice profile of Julie, proprietor of Canadian blog Freedom 48.
And Julie holds forth on one of my favorite hobby-horses, the cost of owning a pet.
Who would think something so obvious as protecting yourself from the flu would be controversial? At Bargaineering, Jim stirs up some hornets with an innocent question.
So it goes in the blogosphere, Saturday, January 26, 2013.
-19 celscius in my part of Canada today. No fog but you can throw a cup of hot tea up in the air and it will freeze before it hits the ground.
I have to head out to work in it today and I wish I could just stay inside but I owe, I owe so off to work I go.
Rain and fog would mean warmer weather and anything closer to zero would be great after these cold weeks.
ohhh that scares me! No wonder Canadians buy up real estate here…who can blame them?
Actually, Canada with its enlightened culture and generally lovely citizens is an attractive retirement venue for Americans. The only reason it’s not on my list of potential expat homes is the cold weather. I couldn’t live through even one day at -2.2 F.
Fog is like a living thing trying to eat us alive, low clouds don’t mingle with us commoners. How I tell, anyway 🙂
Thanks for the link!