Cold Comfort II
Jun. 17th, 2011 09:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tyellasFinally! Frost! My gardening friends have been waiting anxiously for the first frost, to kill insects and give certain plants a winter metabolic period. Even a sucky gardener like myself wants it - I have some violet seeds for my garden, and they need frost and cold to germinate.
My car was iced up for the first time this winter, too. But...when I was in New England, I bought something at the hardware store of my childhood. An ice scraper. After one minute plying the ice scraper over my car's windows, I was gleefully ready to drive.
I have yet to see an ice scraper for sale in New Zealand. The local cure for a frosted car is, according to my boss, just turning the hose on it!
They were even discussing the frost on the radio this morning, with a sense of relief, as if to say, "Oh, thank goodness, severe climate change isn't happening this year!" Yeah, well, I should've been plying that ice scraper a month ago...
My car was iced up for the first time this winter, too. But...when I was in New England, I bought something at the hardware store of my childhood. An ice scraper. After one minute plying the ice scraper over my car's windows, I was gleefully ready to drive.
I have yet to see an ice scraper for sale in New Zealand. The local cure for a frosted car is, according to my boss, just turning the hose on it!
They were even discussing the frost on the radio this morning, with a sense of relief, as if to say, "Oh, thank goodness, severe climate change isn't happening this year!" Yeah, well, I should've been plying that ice scraper a month ago...
