Archives for October 20th, 2004

Four pictures of Pohorje on Sunday.

La Flaca told me it was snowing on mount Pohorje¹ on Sunday. After laughing at him and calling him a lying liar who was full of lies, I explained to him that this was absolutely impossible, for two reasons:

1) It’s October.
2) It was warm and sunny on Sunday.

But he insisted, saying that it had snowed in the morning when it was still cold and that I was (probably) still sleeping. I got extremely angry and threatened to “beat the lies” out of him with my “fists of eternal justice.” He then showed me pictures. You can see four of them above. My first thought was that he had taken them on Sunday and then photoshopped the snow in, but he gave me so many pictures that there’s no way he could have done it so fast. Or so well.

Then I thought that they might be from last winter, and I again grew angry and threatened to do permanent physical damage to him. But then he showed me the time stamps, leaving me with no choice but to believe it was true. Which is unfortunate, because it means that this winter will probably be very long. And filled with pain.

Thanks for the photos, La Flaca.

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1) I once sat through a very long and heated debate between two Slovenes (one from Maribor, one from Ljubljana) about whether Pohorje qualifies as a mountain or not. (You can guess which one argued for which.) Pohorje is about 1.347 meters at its peak. That’s about three and a half times smaller than Mount Blanc and two times smaller than Slovenia’s highest peak, Triglav. Pohorje also isn’t craggy like traditional mountains. Nevertheless, it’s big and fat and dominates the whole region. After listening to the two gentlemen argue, I’ve learned that the general rule is this: If you’re from Maribor, it’s a mountain. If you’re from Ljubljana, it’s a hill. And never the twain shall meet.