Scragglions

The storm was not very nice to my cold weather plants. The snapdragons are munged, the collards are covered, and the scallions are barely hanging in there, all scraggly on top of the snow. I’m sure the scallions will be fine, and the snapdragons will grow back. But I worry about the collards up on […]

Looking pretty good after all

There’s just one thing that keeps my from apologizing for my whining yesterday.

Not looking good

I guess I’m about a third of the way through my crazy end of the world flying pig story. The chunks that look almost done are getting bigger, but I keep moving my own goal posts. Not looking good for finishing it by the end of the year. Week. Friday. Three days to go. Geez, […]

Snowy birds

So we got a blizzard, but it’s not winter until the juncos show up. I’ve been wondering what’s keeping them. And I wondered last night, while listening to the storm huffing and puffing and rattling the windows, where do the birds go? I suppose they go the same places they go every night. By dark, […]

Safe from the snow

We actually went shopping with a storm coming — and it wasn’t so bad. How am I supposed to get a story out of that? Well, as part of putting the milk and ice melt and kohlrabi away, we finally dragged the Weber kettle to safety. And that’s a bit of a story.

Merry Correction-mas

I feasted. I drowsed. I woke up enough to realize that I need to issue a retraction.

Have a nice Christmas!

I don’t do Christmas. I evade Christmas stories, especially the scifi type. As for my own crazy stories, it seems silly that spending any other evening with a cat and a laptop and the husband is fine, but this night is supposed to be more festive. But I don’t mind that Christmas is almost as […]

Why Webers and winter don’t mix

Here is my Weber kettle sitting on the patio, right where it’s been all summer, all autumn, all winter. It’s not that I’m lazy. I don’t mind shoveling snow. I’ve got it down to a routine going up and down the steps and along the sidewalk and across the driveway and up again. But bringing […]

Another White Solstice

Welcome to another White Solstice. Unlike last year, the first snow waited until the solstice, a steady light snow that barely added up to an inch. Naturally, the evil cat insisted that it must be inspected. As you can see by the tracks, he did a thorough job of criss-crossing before declaring the snow a […]

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