Yes folks, Punxsutawney Phil was yanked out of cozy burrow in his tree stump, saw his shadow and jumped back in, slamming the door behind him so it looks like six more weeks of winter are upon us. Up here in the Northeast Kingdom we kind of take that for granted anyway but I’m [...] Read more »

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Kirk M on January 31st, 2008

I’ve been very pleased over the past few weeks with the way my blog here had been doing as far as my statistics and the numbers thereof were concerned. Very pleased in fact. Of course if you knew me well enough you’d realize that it doesn’t take much to make me feel that way still, [...] Read more »

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Kirk M on January 31st, 2008

Will there be six more weeks of winter or not this year? The answer is up in the air as the forecast for Punxsutawney, PA is either going to be cloudy, mostly cloudy, partly cloudy or mostly sunny depending on which weather service you’re looking at. Much like the weather we’ve been experiencing so [...] Read more »

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Kirk M on November 14th, 2007

Required reading: Tags and Categories-Tagged Again! Part I
Many thanks to Grandad. This absolutely horrendous, disjointed post is all his fault but he’ll probably blame it on K8.
And here we go….
I seem to be getting older these days. Not only am I getting older but it seems to be becoming a habit, a perpetual thing if [...] Read more »

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Kirk M on March 21st, 2007

It’s sunny, it’s bright and it’s Spring. It’s also 2 degrees above zero and there’s still a ton of snow on the ground but it’s still Spring. The clincher to the whole thing is that by tomorrow temps should be up in the fifty’s and that’s just fine by me.
Our official egg standing ceremony got [...] Read more »

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Kirk M on March 20th, 2007

It’s officially Spring folks and with the coming of Spring comes the Vernal equinox and the time of the Standing Of The Egg.
If you didn’t know about this little miracle that comes but once a year (at 8:07 pm EDT this year–see quote below), for a small period of time (I don’t remember exactly [...] Read more »

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Kirk M on February 26th, 2007

We have a ROBIN!
Yes folks, it looks like I was right. Laurie walked out of her shop this morning to put out the flag and the open sign and what do you think she heard? A robin singing that’s what! And not just audio verification folks but shortly there after she had visual verification as [...] Read more »

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Kirk M on February 25th, 2007

It’s Spring I just know it, despite all evidence to the contrary. Somewhere under all that snow and the giant mound of it in the front yard (contributed to by our neighbor, us, the roof and the sidewalk plow), and the currently cold temperatures, Spring is already here at the end of February, 10 miles [...] Read more »

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