Well, almost. November has no 31st, so we’re counting today as her four-month celebration. B has almost doubled her weight…she’s at about 15.5 pounds now. She can roll from front to back and from back to front, and with a … Continue reading
13.5°F (-10.3°C), wind chill -5.8 (-21). Mt. Jefferson off in the distance. This is the north view of the webcam network. It’s the page Firefox opens to every morning on my laptop. Though it’s often a blank (fog/cloud), days like … Continue reading
…not much more than a heavy dusting, but it required car-window-clearing and it affected driving. The consensus at the Farmers’ Market was that, taken with the low temps, Winter Is Here.
My parents bought their house in 1955. Built in 1771, it was well out in the country when I was a boy, on a road that had been paved just the year before, in a town that had only recently … Continue reading
Minnesota’s impressing me. 8°F (-13.3°C) this morning, with a wind chill of -3 (-14.4C). H gets home today in the early afternoon, after a 36-hour call at the hospital, so I think sweet B and I will wait till then … Continue reading
Well, I might as well join the club. Typealyzer assesses this blog and characterizes me among: The Doers The active and play-ful type. They are especially attuned to people and things around them and often full of energy, talking, joking … Continue reading
Is this … … known to all you Brits? Or at least all you Brits who walk in Scotland? Or at least all you Scots? I found it here, on the wonderful site, Strange Maps, where I am told that … Continue reading
A while before I left home for Minnesota, there was an article in a local paper about the 50th running of the invitational cross-country meet sponsored by our high school. The Nonnewaug (originally Woodbury) Invitational is, I think, the oldest … Continue reading
It’s 26°F (3.3°C) here in southern Minnesota this morning, with a wind chill of 14° (-10°). We’ll still be going out for our morning walk, of course, sweet B and I, but winter is definitely lurking around that corner just … Continue reading
Hope, yes. Idolatry, no. He’s a gifted politician, not a heavenly body. There’s an interesting discussion of this syndrome here and here. I actually think the phenomenon says more about our relief to be getting rid of the current demolition … Continue reading