Hi Friends! I wanted to have a huge political rant, but I know many of you are being extremely careful about how and when you take in certain subjects these days, so I put my rants and links under the "Reading" heading at the end of the post and labeled it "politics" so you can …
Tag: spring
Blizzard
Not only a blizzard of busy-ness but an actual snow blizzard too. No post last week because When I came to Sunday afternoon I was pretty much done. We had a blizzard Tuesday night into Wednesday morning that made roads and visibility so bad even the buses stopped running, which meant neither James nor I …
Goodbye October
I mean April. Yes, that tells you how spring continues to not happen. Though I think, if the weather forecast is anywhere close to being right, we are finally about to have some real spring weather. Yay! And also, happy Beltain! The annual May Day parade and Festival will be back this year. Yay! The …
Spring, Where Art Thou?
Yesterday was Earth Day, and, judging by all the sale emails I received, it’s apparently now a shopping holiday for “green” goods. But even if the item is “Earth Friendly” it’s still consumption of (very likely) something people don’t actually need. And if you don’t need it and buy it anyway, you are not being …
A Long Cold Spring
What a long cold spring it’s been. Except for this last Wednesday through Friday when we had instant summer and broke high temperature records three days in a row. It was 88F/31C here Wednesday! The previous record set in 1931 was 83F/28C. Maybe the most ridiculous thing about it all is that today it’s been …
