First snow fall of the year
Dec. 9th, 2008 02:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
grnvixenAt least with any accumulation. I do like the first snow fall, especially if it is after turkey day and before Christmas, kind of like Mother Nature joining in the holiday mood. But it also brings out a lot of stress.....cut for self-indulgent hip angst.... just to get this off my chest, air it out and hopefully put it back into perspective:
yup, that time of year when I get to worry about my footing. After the lumbar issues this fall I think I am doing a lot better but the cold has made the joints stiff (the joys of getting old) and I am still deathly afraid of taking a fall. I can do so much with the titantium that it is sometimes easy to forget I still have some limitations and balance is one of them. A big one. I was getting pretty comfortable with the devil-I-knew, ie; where I was parking and what issues that location presented during inclement weather. well, the office moved so I was parking in another part of the campus this summer. Very close to our building (always a plus around here) but out in the open. I finally bit the bullet and got access to park in the covered garage which is right behind our new building. Just started parking there a couple of weeks ago. This means my car is undercover and will NOT be aquiring a nice pretty coat of fluffy snow or ice, that I would have to clear off enough of to drive safely. Clearing is not the problem, moving around the car in snow and/or ice to do so can be. So, no worries about that. I have to get to the garage however. As I said, it is right behind our new building. New building is on a cliff (ie; big shelf-o-rock). Garage is connected to cliff by a bridge. I'm a Kansas native, I know what happens on bridges in inclement weather.
This was the original reason I did not sign up the garage parking when it opened a year ago. What the heck was going to happen on that bridge in the winter? I asked folks who parked there last winter and they said our grounds crew had done a good job of keeping it clear sooooo, I opted into the garage, and am now sweating the trip out this evening. I have to admit that the grounds crew has been right on top of the little freezing weather we have had so far this season and at one time there was enough salt on the bridge that I probably could have found Nemo on it somewhere. It is also a fairly level bridge, very little incline, good hand rails, lots of foot traffic if I did fall. The unknown element is still there however and I'm just going to have to give it the old college try. I have on shoes with good traction, I'm going to give myself enough time not to rush it.
yup, that time of year when I get to worry about my footing. After the lumbar issues this fall I think I am doing a lot better but the cold has made the joints stiff (the joys of getting old) and I am still deathly afraid of taking a fall. I can do so much with the titantium that it is sometimes easy to forget I still have some limitations and balance is one of them. A big one. I was getting pretty comfortable with the devil-I-knew, ie; where I was parking and what issues that location presented during inclement weather. well, the office moved so I was parking in another part of the campus this summer. Very close to our building (always a plus around here) but out in the open. I finally bit the bullet and got access to park in the covered garage which is right behind our new building. Just started parking there a couple of weeks ago. This means my car is undercover and will NOT be aquiring a nice pretty coat of fluffy snow or ice, that I would have to clear off enough of to drive safely. Clearing is not the problem, moving around the car in snow and/or ice to do so can be. So, no worries about that. I have to get to the garage however. As I said, it is right behind our new building. New building is on a cliff (ie; big shelf-o-rock). Garage is connected to cliff by a bridge. I'm a Kansas native, I know what happens on bridges in inclement weather.
This was the original reason I did not sign up the garage parking when it opened a year ago. What the heck was going to happen on that bridge in the winter? I asked folks who parked there last winter and they said our grounds crew had done a good job of keeping it clear sooooo, I opted into the garage, and am now sweating the trip out this evening. I have to admit that the grounds crew has been right on top of the little freezing weather we have had so far this season and at one time there was enough salt on the bridge that I probably could have found Nemo on it somewhere. It is also a fairly level bridge, very little incline, good hand rails, lots of foot traffic if I did fall. The unknown element is still there however and I'm just going to have to give it the old college try. I have on shoes with good traction, I'm going to give myself enough time not to rush it.
