It is wet, and red, and is crying out for somebody to name it. 😉
Month: December 2008
Car Photo(s) of the Day: More Wet Classics
Some are easily ID’ed, others not so. Can you name them all?
Car Photo of the Day: Name that wet car.
It’s an easy one.
Car Photo of the Day: Damp DB4
Wetness is a fact of life here in the Pacific Northwest. We’re used to it. Doesn’t prevent us from driving priceless cars around in the rain. Hell… it is just water… it isn’t like they will melt!
Car Photo of the Day: Another Wet Classic
(Forgot to post this yesterday)
This photo has appeared before, but it is in keeping with the current CPotD theme.
Day Thirteen of the Big Snow of 2008
Snowfall is like a romance. When it first arrives it is clean, bright and filled with promise of adventure.
After a while it becomes tedious and while you can recall the beginnings, the adventure is getting a little old.
By the time the end rolls around you just wish it would hurry up and leave. There is all sorts of collateral damage that is coming to light. Things are no longer clean and bright… in fact it is messy, slushy, muddy, and miserable.
The last few flakes fell out of the sky Friday. Rain returned in full force Friday afternoon. Since we had accumulated well over a meter of snow up here in the foothills it is taking forever to melt. We still have over a foot on the ground and it is slowly vanishing. The air is heavy with moisture and fog collects above empty ground as the wetness really has nowhere to go. The snow is dirty, as all the fallen tree debris is being uncovered as things melt.
The big slab of snow on the barn roof slid off today, pulling part of a rain gutter along with it. I still have not turned the water on out there though… I’ll likely wait for mid-week when the threat of a night-time freeze is gone. I imagine it will be Wednesday before we lose all the major accumulations of snow.
I did manage to get the Jetta moved today though. Sorry no pics. I shoveled out a path immediately ahead of it. Then I got Sue’s Jeep out and created a pathway for the little VW to follow. I just patiently drove up and down the driveway, the full â…“rd mile out to the plowed road. First in 4WD-Low, then is just plain 4WD. The shovel lowered a few of the very deep “high-center” areas where the ruts were very deep. During the warmest, slushiest part of the day I hopped into the Jetta and braced myself for the journey. I already had the tow eye threaded in and a tow-strap ready in the Jeep should I get stuck. The Jetta started on the first try (always a good sign) and I put it in gear and just maintained a steady, but slow pace all the way out to the road. It never hesitated or slipped too much except for the odd transition corner I had to negotiate not long after I started. Patience and persistence saw me all the way out to wet pavement. It is now parked out there awaiting my morning commute.
I bet there is NO way I would have made it out come morning if we do indeed freeze again tonight.
The boys arrive home in the early afternoon. I’ll pick them up at Sea-Tac and bring them home.
At least now I’m certain I can.
Car Photo of the Day: Wet Classics
Things are trying to get back to normal here at the Goolsbee household. We’re on our eleventh straight day of snow, though the temps have risen and it seems more mixed with rain now. The stuff is in retreat. Now it is just a matter of time.
I was perusing my photos of old cars and decided on something of a theme for the time being… wet cars. So to start off the proceedings here is the wet nose of the late Jerry Nell’s XKSS. Hard to make a guessing game when the name is right there in big letters, but some forthcoming wet classics are mysterious enough for you carspotters in the coming days.
Hope your christmas was fun!