Samhain Waning Wolf Moon The snow continues and the wind now gusts around 12 mph. Accumulation so far is minimal, but NOAA says the storm will pick up energy tonight and continue on through tomorrow afternoon. Afterward, the temperature will drop below zero at night and remain in the single digits for highs through Tuesday. […]
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Let It Snow
Samhain Waning Wolf Moon The snow began around 10:30 a.m., an hour and a half earlier than predicted. Though the snow is light right now, the wind has stayed pretty steady around 9 mph, driving the snow at a 60 degree angle to the ground. The wind has increased the windchill factor to 9 degrees, […]
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Samhain Waning Wolf Moon The anticipation of a snow storm, especially the first one of the season, still generates wonder. A force of nature moves slowly toward us, we know it will transform our world, change it to some extent beyond recognition, yet it feels benign, unlike the hook echoes, derechos and tornadoes of summer […]
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Samhain Waning Wolf Moon Oh, my. The day after the Viking’s thrashing in the desert, the mauling in the sand, the collapse in the sun brings…not much. Favre admitted they got outplayed and that he, in particular, succumbed to old ways, win it himself by throwing, throwing, throwing, avoiding the question of open receivers and […]
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Samhain Waning Wolf Moon Find the mittens and the mad bomber hats. Haul the toboggan out of the rafters, wax up those cross-country skis and check the bindings on your snowshoes. Oh, yeah. You might want gas for the snowblower. Dig out the snow shovels from that place you put them last March. Where was […]
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Samhain Waning Wolf Moon Sigh. The Vikings. Going to the Cardinals for a big game has proved unhappy for us. Again. I don’t even know the final score because I turned it off with 6 minutes to go. Not a pretty sight. Logicomix is a great read. If you love philosophy and logic. Which I […]
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Samhain Waning Wolf Moon A light dusting of snow has given snowy caps to the rocks in our boulder wall and covered the potting bench like Wondra shaken out to coat a chicken breast. This amount of snow emphasizes late fall by highlighting downed leaves, their brown color emphasizing the not-yet-winter feel of this early […]
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Samhain Full Wolf Moon A light dusting of snow this morning came on the heels of a drop in temperature. We’re down to 21 right now with a low in the last 24 hours of 20. According to NOAA and Paul Douglas, we have a bunch of cold air headed our way, air now sitting […]
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AncientTrails Visits All Continents
Samhain Waning Wolf Moon “Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me. It is an uncomfortable doctrine which the true ethics whisper into […]
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