Witch Hazel is flowering! Friends who've known me for awhile, know that James and I have been undertaking removing as much plastic from our lives as we can. It began as a way to reduce plastic waste because recycling wasn't good enough (mircoplastics) and food wrapped in plastic often has plastic in it. We've been …
Category: Seasons
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 …
Back on the Bike
Goodness, what a week it’s been! The spring semester began and the library was busy, busy busy, not just with students but with professors too. It made for days that flew by with little down time but for lunch, and tired evenings at home where I wanted to do nothing but get rid of the …
Winter is Coming?
I managed to change my blog host, a not entirely straightforward process that caused me not a little stress. I’m finding most of the photos on posts won’t load currently, so that will be something to sort out sometime. With the new host, I also needed to change the way everything looks. It’s a bit …
Happy Solstice!
Technically the sun has officially passed the solstice mark, but let’s go with a more seasonal approach since it’s still very much midwinter even though we are likely to have a record warm day here of over 50F/10C. But the real warmth story is that we are keeping above freezing at night for several days …
