Tag Archives: winter

Cats, LCD Displays, Reading Glasses, Winter and Blogging Don’t Mix

I found that there’s a problem with computer technology these days or at least with the type that adorns the various horizontal services of a computer desk.
It’s all made of plastic.
Okay, so a lot of home type computer equipment has always been made of plastic but there used to be a bit of glass [...]

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Indoor Plumbing Appreciation

An excellent reason to appreciate indoor plumbing.

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General Announcments

Seems like every time I seem to be ready to sit down and write a bunch of stuff something always gets in the way. This time, as usual, it was a combination of a flare up (disabilities, three each, the really bad one), a snow storm with all the wonderful cleaning up thereafter and the [...]

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A 2 Day Snowstorm-Minding the Shop

The Northeast Kingdom is looking forward to a two day snow storm beginning around 10:00 AM this morning and guess where my better half is right now? About 2 hours south of here attempting to take care of the usual quilt shop business that springs up around this time of the year (first sign that [...]

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Another Snow Storm. Think We’ve had Enough?

What you don’t see in the above photo is that the paths around the snow mound are the top of a solid base about a foot thick  packed down by previous freezing rain and ice storms that came in between the many regular snow storms we’ve had so far this winter. It even held the [...]

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Punxsutawney Phil Sees His Shadow. No Early Spring for us then.

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 [...]

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Punxsutawney, PA. Weather Iffy for Feb. 2nd

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 [...]

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And You Think You Have Snow?

Washington State Department of Transportation
In this photo released by the Washington State Department of Transportation, a large plow tries to clear the snow after an avalanche fell from the east on Snoqualmie Pass in Washington state, Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2008. Periodic heavy snow began falling in Eastern Washington and northern Idaho over the weekend, [...]

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