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 …
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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 2024!
Hello? Anyone Home? Happy New Year Friends! The best thing about a new year is that there are so many of them. There’s January 1st, of course. But there is also Chinese New Year. There’s Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. There is Samhain (November 1 making Halloween New Year’s Eve), the Celtic New Year. …
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 …
Ouch
I missed writing last week because, well, read on. In spite of December continuing on as significantly warmer and drier than usual, last Saturday into Saturday night we got some light rain that turned into an icy, crunchy snow when temperatures finally dropped below freezing. Sunday was sunny and forecast to warm up to freezing. …