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Category Archives: Life
A Preference in Weather
I will take 26 degrees and snowy over 46 degree and rainy. After our blizzard and lake-effect storm ten days or so ago, just about all of it has been melted away by warm temps and rain. We have a … Continue reading
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Farewell, trusted companion through many breakfasts….
For Christmas 1990, a friend of the family gave me…a toaster oven. I was in college, and this was a gift that had never once been on my radar as something I wanted or needed. But off to college it … Continue reading
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2022: Yeah. Glad THAT’s over.
And it is time at last for my annual quiz-retrospective on the year just ending. Let me be honest here, folks: 2022 was, for the most part, pretty much of a struggle. It felt like the kind of year where … Continue reading
A dispatch from the 716….
That was a three-day stretch to remember. And we didn’t even get the brunt of it this time. I honestly don’t recall a previous time when we lived under an official blizzard warning. Winter weather, winter storms, sure…but an actual according-to-Hoyle … Continue reading
How much sump would a sump pump pump if a sump pump could pump sump?
The title of this post has been in my head for years. I think it came from a comic strip years ago…For Better or For Worse, maybe…. Anyway, let’s talk sump pumps. Well, not quite. It’s more a drainage thing. … Continue reading
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Seventeen years
Gone this day, 2005. I will always wonder what kind of person he might have been.
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
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 →