It did snow, just not as much as they said it would. We got somewhere between four and five inches of new powder here at the farm. At work, there was somewhat less, maybe three inches. Instead of continuing with heavy snow all day and into the night, things had pretty much dropped back to light flurries by noon time. Sorta disappointing, really. No ( Read more... )

OK, if the latest forecast is correct, we are well on our way to challenge the record-breaking snow of the last two winters. Winter storm watch announced this afternoon is up to another possible nine inches to fall Wednesday through Thursday. High ice to liquid water ratio, because the air temperature will be low. In other words, more dry powder ( Read more... )

Not as cold as last night, at least for the moment.

Spinning guild newsletter completed. The 50 mile challenge is up to 11.41 miles spun in the first three months. At this rate, we'll get past 45 miles in twelve months, but not quite to 50, so I'm still pushing people. Most are not turning in their figures yet ( Read more... )

OK, I have this knitting project to finish this week. It's a small one, just a hat. But it must be done using an obnoxious lace pattern created by someone else. This thing is called "horseshoe lace" though I have a hard time seeing horseshoes in it. If anything, it has frogs in it instead (the frog being the soft part at the center of a horse's ( Read more... )

Entries in the fair are up both in quantity and quality. Fortunately, the additional categories reduced the number of entries per section so the judging was not terribly difficult. It can be incredibly hard to decide on the top five out of a dozen or more entries of widely varying style and materials. It took me a solid three hours to get through ( Read more... )

Newsletter completed.Now I just have to get ready to go to the fairgrounds in the morning and judge the knitting and crochet, now with spinning as an added attraction. I was there this afternoon and Mary, the superintendent, was excited about the amount of entries. It looked like a good number to me, but not a huge increase over last year. The ( Read more... )

Remember that rackmount server I was talking about a couple of weeks ago? The very flat one that was designed for a 4 post rack when I only have a 2 post rack ( Read more... )

To quote the eminent English lexicographer. It has been a busy weekend. (For anyone wondering, no, there has not been a gas explosion in the compost heap (yet) nor has any scavenger been digging there ( Read more... )

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Gary had his gig at the farmers market this morning, so take care of the animals since he leaves early for that, then do some laundry and make up a shopping list, go to the bank to deposit paycheck, to grocery store to buy food for the week, home to put away food, then to the farmers market to meet Gary for lunch and help him get all his stuff back ( Read more... )