Here we are, several days into 2025. I hope everyone is doing well. There are so many new year opportunities that the calendar new year is kind of anti-climactic for me. When I was a kid it was great. My family would stay up until midnight to watch the ball drop on TV. We’d get …
Category: Holidays
Winter Solstice
I hope everyone who celebrates Winter Solstice had a beautiful day! As for James and I, it couldn’t have been more perfect. As some of you may know, James does all the cooking year-round except for the Winter Solstice when I take over and plan a sometimes rather elaborate meal. This tradition came about because …
From 80 to Snow
What a wild week it’s been. Tuesday it was 80F/26C. Wednesday it was 76F/24C. Thursday it rained and snowed! The ground was much too warm for the snow to stick, especially since the air temperature was above freezing, but snow it did. A nice Halloween trick that. In spite of the brief snowy flirtation, the …
So Much
The crocus survived and is flowering! From Sunday through Tuesday last week we ended up getting a foot of snow! We had a break from the snow Monday during which we got an inch of rain. While the snow was not appreciated, the moisture was. There was so much that we went from being in …
Weather Purgatory
Some weeks feel interminably long and this was one of them. I can’t even say why, but James and my coworkers and students in the library were also lamenting the very long week. Sia, who can't see where she is most of the time Maybe it’s because the weather is stuck in between seasons. I …
