We’ve been stuck in a weather pattern the last couple weeks that has provided some much needed late summer rain. While none of the weather in our area has been severe, some of the late night storms have been full of constant lightning. Not to be outdone, one late afternoon storm put on a show […]

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Slowly, but surely, we’re managing to clear out the snow. As of last week, enough snow had melted that I could see at least the top 6 inches of every fence post where the deepest snow fell over the winter – and it’s gotten better almost every day since. Just to give you an idea […]

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We were reconnected with the civilized world late Monday afternoon. For those of you that have never experienced what blowing snow can actually do, I thought I’d share this (you can click on the picture to see a larger version): It took a road maintainer with a large v-blade about 30 minutes to cut this […]

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Just in case you aren’t sick of seeing pics of snow, I thought I’d share a few shots of what it looked like here yesterday afternoon compared to what we woke up to this morning. There hasn’t been a car down our road since about 3 yesterday. Based on what things looked like yesterday morning, […]

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After all the heat and humidity last week, a thunderstorm late Friday afternoon was very welcome. It had being raining hard for the last hour by the time I got home from work. I had just walked in the kitchen and was being mobbed by the girls – even Peanut scrambles as quickly as she […]

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I keep a little list in the back of my mind of things that would be nice to have but I really don’t need enough to go out and get. Yes, obviously boys will always be boys and the list includes some far-fetched things like a small bulldozer for shaping up the waterways that drain […]

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After another night of rain, we’re close to eight inches since the first of April. I think the garden and lawn have sucked up just about every drop, though we’re all starting to get a little anxious for the day we can actually get outside and do something. The mail order blueberries and raspberries are […]

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There were plenty of signs that should have made it obvious… wild ducks swimming in the neighbor’s cornfield, rain water leaking through the kitchen ceiling at 4 am, the FedEx guy getting stuck up to the axles when he thought he could turn around on the lawn, or the simple fact that we’ve received well […]

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It seems we’ve gone from one extreme to the other with the weather from last year to this year. Last year this time, I had the garden tilled and some of the potatoes and onions planted already. Not quit on the same pace this year. Here’s what the garden looked like this morning… With how […]

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As I’m putting this together, they’re calling for highs in the 30s and rain so I thought I’d share some images of what the place looks like covered in snow before it’s all brown again.

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