Category: weather

  • it had to happen

    it had to happen

    Woke up to the first snow of the season clinging to the windows of my minivan. A cold drizzle fell the previous night, so I had to put a lot of elbow grease into scraping it off the windows. I could have let the engine run a while so the defrosters could do their magic Read.

  • unhinged

    unhinged

    I spent yesterday morning and all afternoon tearing the old doors off the garden shed, then rebuilding and rehanging new doors, with a lot of help from My Darling B, who volunteered her time to go to the lumber yard with me and also to hang the doors. I wish I had a better “before” Read.

  • Wisconsin weekend

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    Ah, April in Wisconsin, where every weekday is sunny and warm, and every weekend is rainy and cold. Makes me kind of miss February a little bit. It sucked, but it never teased you with false promises of warm weather. Read.

  • heaped

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    It’s springtime in Wisconsin, and I’m not the first one to say it’s a season fraught with disappointment, nor the first one to say, “Fuck this, I’m moving to New Mexico.” In fact, I’d bet I don’t have anything to say about spring in Wisconsin that hasn’t been said a million times already, but I Read.

  • a dash of snow

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  • distribution

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    I’m grateful that legal holidays are mostly on Mondays and Fridays to give us long weekends. Now can we work on the way they’re distributed across the calendar? We’ve got a holiday at the end of September, another at the end of December, one at the beginning of January and another two weeks later in Read.

  • morning walk

    It was twenty-one degrees when I went on a walk this morning through the arboretum and I could feel every single degree through the forty-two layers of heavy clothing I was wearing. I kept up a brisk pace along the whole length of the walk over uneven ground and I never once felt like I Read.

  • tuckered out

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    Went for a very long walk around the neighborhood today because temps were in the 40s for the first time in about two weeks, if I recall correctly, and I was feeling so good about getting out of the house until I got all tuckered out while I was still about a mile from our Read.

  • relativity

    I went for a short walk around the neighborhood today, the first time I’ve been outside for a walk since before the Arctic blast came to town. The temperature outside finally got up to nineteen degrees Fahrenheit, not exactly balmy unless you were born on Pluto. I wasn’t, but I still went out without my Read.

  • icy cold

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    I took a walk in the evening after finishing up work, which is worth mentioning only because the temperature was oh-hell-no degrees below freezing but I needed to get out of the house. Besides, I still have the parka the Air Force issued to me when I was stationed at Misawa, at the northern tip Read.

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