A Cold Day
Winter Waxing Moon of Long Nights It has been a cold day, not bitter cold, but temperatures in the teens with below zero lows. This is a good time to be inside, working on projects like learning Latin, writing a … Continue reading
Winter Waxing Moon of Long Nights It has been a cold day, not bitter cold, but temperatures in the teens with below zero lows. This is a good time to be inside, working on projects like learning Latin, writing a … Continue reading
Winter Waxing Moon of Long Nights We’ve warmed up to 0. Midmorning’s brittle sunshine diffuses in the hazy, partly cloudy sky. The whippets go outside, pee, turn around and come right back inside. Rigel, unphased, continues to hunt around the … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
Winter New Moon (Wild) The weather here has gone into a stable, cold pattern. Just not very interesting. No storms. No new snow. No new ice. No winds. No warmth. Some way below freezing cold, but been there done that … Continue reading
-6 steep fall 30.26 E1 windchill -8 Winter Waning Wolf Moon Boy do I feel good. I recalled that some legislative meetings are webcast, broadcast, or taped. Turns out the one I need to cover will be on Channel 17 … Continue reading
7 falls 30.13 W0 wchill 7 Winter Full Wolf Moon The Full Wolf Moon hangs high in the sky, hidden behind cloud cover. It casts a ring of ice crystals, giving it a gem in a circular setting look. The … Continue reading
-3 steep rise 29.99 W0 wchill -3 Winter Waxing Gibbous Wolf Moon The wind last night drove our bedroom windown open wider and the chilly night air blew on us early this morning. We always sleep with the window at … Continue reading
-8 falls 30.32 SW0 wchill-8 Winter First Quarter of the Wolf Moon The Great Horned Owl who lives in our woods calls tonight, right now as I write. Whether he, or she, speaks to a lost love or wayward children … Continue reading
-3 bar rises 30.00 SW0 windchill -3 Winter Waxing Crescent of the Wolf Moon The Orchard in Winter 2009 has well and truly begun. The new year crept in on snow shoes, covered in a snowmobile suit and holding a … Continue reading