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Tag: snow

  • big snow big shoes

    big snow big shoes

    The first big snowfall of the year gave me the motivation to dig my snow shoes out of the corner of the garage where they’d been buried for months, so I could take them to the arboretum and stomp around in the fresh snow — but first, I there was the little matter of clearing Read.

  • 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.

  • 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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  • clearing

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    We got enough snow this morning that I had to shovel the driveway and, in spite of being out of shape and just shy of my 62nd birthday I was able to clear away every bit of the heavy, wet snow, even the stuff that the snow plow shoved into the end of the driveway, Read.

  • first snow 11-15-2022

    We’ve had a little snow fall before. Some of it even stuck for a little while, but this is the first time I’ve woke up to snow falling and still on the ground, so I guess this is it: The official start of winter. Woo-hoo. Read.

  • i give up

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    WHAT THE WHAT Read.

  • new years eve

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    I thought I would have to fire up the snow blower for the first time in 2019 when I woke up in the morning of the very last day of that year to a fresh snowfall. My snow blower’s gasoline engine is reluctant to start after it’s been sitting unused all summer, so I dressed Read.

  • not snowing yet

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    It’s four o’clock in the morning here in beautiful Madison, Wisconsin, and it’s not snowing yet, although the National Weather Service has put us under a winter storm warning all day and we’re forecast to get anywhere from two to nine inches of snow. In April. Barely. I mean, it’s practically May! If anybody needs Read.

  • snowy

    Spring was nice while it lasted. On Monday, temps were in the 70s. I went for a long walk in a t-shirt and flip-flops. I could’ve worn shorts but I don’t like to tempt the gods. On Tuesday, temps were in the 60s, still warm enough that My Darling B and I sat outside to Read.

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