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- Your Daily Dose of Christmas! December 2, 2022
- Your Daily Dose of Christmas! December 1, 2022
- Something for Thursday December 1, 2022
- Post 10 comes to town!!! November 30, 2022
- Tone Poem Tuesday November 29, 2022
- Seventeen years November 28, 2022
- Goodbye, snow! November 27, 2022
- Have some links before you hit the stores!!! November 25, 2022
- Thankfulness in 2022 November 24, 2022
- Updates…. November 23, 2022
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Category Archives: Life
Seventeen years
Gone this day, 2005. I will always wonder what kind of person he might have been. Share This Post
Goodbye, snow!
A week after our epic snowstorm ended, much of it is finally gone! Of course, we got so much that much of it remains, but what’s left is slowly going away, and I expect we’ll be snowless again within a … Continue reading
Thankfulness in 2022
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! Twenty-twenty-two has not been the easiest year I can remember…but here we are, still gathering. As I write this, I’m on my Second Cup Of Coffee, we have the Macy’s Parade on teevee (it’s WAY better in … Continue reading
Updates….
First: As of this writing (I’m writing this Tuesday evening, even though the post isn’t going live until Wednesday), we’ve done the major portion of shoveling ourselves out in the important ways. All doors are cleared and accessible; the mailboxes … Continue reading
Fifty-four
At last report, a trained weather-spotter in our town reported snowfall of 54 inches to one of the local news stations. This is what it looked like out my front door this morning: That was nearly twelve hours ago. It has been … Continue reading
Ambient Noise!
Do you like using ambient sound generators at all? These have been around for years–I remember gizmos you could buy that made “running water” sounds that you could play softly overnight, and as these got more sophisticated you had choices: You … Continue reading
The Hunter rises!
My favorite constellation has almost always been Orion the Hunter–and I only hedge on this just a bit, because maybe there was a point when I was in first grade and just starting to learn about constellations that I preferred … Continue reading
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The sky, over about an hour
I had to leave for work early today, and the stars were still visible through wisps of cloud. Then, once I got to work and we were starting on the project that required my presence a bit early, I noticed … Continue reading
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“Well, I’m back,” he said.
It’s Monday! And as promised, The Wife and I are back from our too-brief (aren’t they all?) weekend getaway. After the general shit-show that was Summer 2022 for us, we really needed a nice getaway. And that’s exactly what we had. … Continue reading
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Seventy-seven
Oof. WOWWWW! Check this out. Trained spotter in #OrchardPark at 77" of snow from the this storm! #LakeEffectSnow @wkbw #BuffaloSnow2022 pic.twitter.com/o220CSGN0X — Aaron Mentkowski (@AaronCh7Weather) November 19, 2022 I don’t measure our snow, because…meh, I don’t need numbers. You reach … Continue reading →