Which was fine, until the wind kicked in. So this must be why the weather sites for all our bit of New York are red with Winter Storm! Storm warning in effect until 11 PM. However, alas this snow front is passing all the rest of the state by, as it hugs the coast. New England will probably get a lot, but western and upstate New York, probably nothing. Not good for our drought conditions which are state wide. We've also been receiving a fair amount of rain in our little bit, but other parts not. Which doesn't help us either, as our water supplies are further north.
So, an enforced snow day here. Whatever shall we do? Play hot music from hot climates to help feel warm.
Himself? He's all comfy and happy, back in bed, reading a book by a friend which deals primarily with the Dominican Republic's independence process -- from both Spain and Haiti, and eventually the U.S. too. At one point, though, during the first administration of Grant, the small power elite did beg the U.S. to take them as its own. It also at one point declared itself a part of Spain again -- without bothering to inform Spain. Which really didn't want it. Nobody wanted the DR. Except Haiti. And thereby hang many miserable tales which are ongoing.
Himself? He's all comfy and happy, back in bed, reading a book by a friend which deals primarily with the Dominican Republic's independence process -- from both Spain and Haiti, and eventually the U.S. too. At one point, though, during the first administration of Grant, the small power elite did beg the U.S. to take them as its own. It also at one point declared itself a part of Spain again -- without bothering to inform Spain. Which really didn't want it. Nobody wanted the DR. Except Haiti. And thereby hang many miserable tales which are ongoing.
Me, I'm a climbing the laundry mountain, which keeps me from spending the entire day sitting down, as I must run up and down the stairs to the basement where the machines are. Also, Himself can help. :)
We went out before it got dark to to pick up a few things from Gourmet Garage, which was an adventure between the wind and the restaurants on the block ignoring the City's laws about shoveling and salting the sidewalks, and the ice, ice, ice under the snow. We could have managed dinner without going out, but to be honest, I wanted to go out.
It's been so long since I've experienced a real snow here, it's as though it's all brand new.
. . . . This time last year we were in Cuba. Which, if a hurricane and a Russian manipulated election hadn't gotten in the way, is where I was supposed to be today.
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| Coffee plantation, southeast Cuba; I visited this one the first time back in -- 2001? |
By the way, our March trip to eastern Cuba is filling right up. Some of the Travelers are repeats from the January trip, that's what splendid, intrepid, serious Travelers they are! The others coming sound equally cool, and some of them we have known for a long time too. So it's going to be a terrific experience, to which I'm already looking forward. I'm looking forward particularly today, to being in Oriente's Caribbean climate!
. . . . Tonight I'll probably watch the second half of the fourth and last season of Ripper Street (2016). This fourth season, after the abrupt cancelation of the show by BBC, after it got rescued by amazilla, is even darker than the previous seasons. I've really liked this series for all kinds of reasons, with the exception that the writers couldn't figure out what to do with primary female characters except to make them duplicitous whores or insane, and preferably both. This is a short season, only 7 episodes.
The time for Ripper Street to go has probably come anyway. It's good to have it go out on a standard even higher than its previous seasons achieved. The actors are all so good, they've been having other jobs all along.
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| Ah, here we are in Ripper Street's comfort zone -- no women around! |
Matthew Macfadyen, who plays Detective Inspector Edmund Reed, even showed up in the first episode of the first season of The Last Kingdom, while Jerome Flynn, who plays Det. Sgt. Bennet Drake, is everyone's favorite Got character, Bronn . The actors's talent is much of the pleasure of this series. I loved them as ensemble, but the characters' story lines have been diverging from the ensemble aspect anyway, as with Detective Reid having left the force at the end of last season. The manipulations to get him back on the force this season were not quite what anyone could call plausible, particularly as the roles are reversed with Drake now being Reid's superior.
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P.S. Love it -- a report from Havana Jazz Fest by amigo, Larry Blumenfeld:
"Cuba is the Missing Link in Jazz History." Is it ever! Read it here.
Perhaps it's time to begin the Saturday night ritual, which has been by-passed in the last holiday weeks -- pasta and jazz!
I have the technology for both (and the ingredients).
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