On Monday, we had a light dusting of snow during the day, which was surprising because, until the day before, the local weather people had made no mention of the possibility of snow in their long range forecast for the week. It was lovely and lifting to my spirits, but all too brief, then gone. Then comes today. Temps in the 20s, snow anywhere from ( Read more... )

You've heard about being able to fry an egg on the sidewalk or the car hood when it's really hot, right?  Well, how about baking biscuits inside the car?  This is what we've come to in what is likely to be record-breaking heat here in the US in the next few days. But, there's no such thing as climate change.I admit I'm a wimp when it comes to hot ( Read more... )

It's March, yet winter is clinging on!  We had three snows the end of last week into Sunday, and temperatures now are in the deep freeze.  I?  Am thrilled.  :-)  I woke up Sunday and looked out my window.  It was snowing, the tree outside my window was lined with white, and a whole flock of robin red-breasts were bedecking its branches.  It looked ( Read more... )

So the wind is outrageous right now, howling at the house as promised, today and into Monday.  The electricity has gone out a few times, and so I have spent some time nightwatching, as I often do anyway.  I was watching out back, down the hill to the house at the bottom.  They have some outbuildings, and, to the side of one, a light was shining out ( Read more... )

Tonight is one of my most favorite things.  The sky is clear and the moon is full and bright.  So bright.  It's a Supermoon, after all.  It's cold and windy, and the shadows of the trees are stretched long on newly fallen snow.  It's clean and so light you could easily take a walk and never stumble.  It's 2AM and I could sit out here on the porch ( Read more... )

So Friday was the first day of winter - Yay!! - and I was out and about finishing up my Christmas shopping.  With the air conditioning on in the car because it was 70 degrees outside!  And we had a thunderstorm.  A thunderstorm ( Read more... )

I may have just purchased a heated massage pillow.  Darn you, QVC, for making everything look so desirable and affordable, then you add Easy Pay into the mix?  Curses ( Read more... )

I feel like I'm being cheated out of Fall.  I count down the days, every year, till summer is over and cool temps, sharp blue skies, and the beautiful colors of the trees arrive.  This year?  It's only just gotten cooler, though not as cool as usual for almost the end of October, and the leaves?  Nothin'.  Most of the trees are still in full leaf ( Read more... )

Yesterday and today, the temps here have been close to 80.  My thermometer is telling me it is currently 78.  On Sunday, we had a snowstorm.  The world is broken, people!

The sad thing is, while we too often, lately, get summer-style days in the winter, we never get winter-style days in summer.  That?  Is patently unfair and, I think, un-American ( Read more... )

I have shoveled snow twice this week.  I may be the only person in the world to say this, but I find this exciting.  \o/