… When it’s trying to be spring, and I’m just not ready. And, the last few years, I feel like, “Wait a minute we haven’t even really had winter yet, how can it be spring?” I first remember really feeling this way, not ready for spring but without the guilt about not having had winter … [Read more…]
As far as I know, both Sun Prairie Jimmy, and Punxatawney Phil (the real groundhog as far as a Pittsburgh girl like me is concerned) predicted six more weeks of winter on February 2nd. But here we are on March 3, a mere four weeks later, and it kind of seems like winter is over. … [Read more…]
The New Yorker sent out an advance look of next week’s cover, and it pretty much sums up how I feel. Thanks to Roz Chast. I feel like I’ve been holed up at work, trying to get my classes up and running, not even going for walks. The weather has been unpleasant for the most … [Read more…]
I’m going to the Library Conference instead … Organized by arktictoc And here’s more info about Solar Flare – in Norwegian & translated (I’m sure you can get Google translate to do your own translation too.) #Repost @f_stromstad ・・・ The No Ones, photo by Adam Selzer One of the 3 (count 'em) bands formed, triggered, … [Read more…]
It could’ve been foreshadowing of what was to come in my yoga class, where of course the teacher was going to talk about well being. Or it could’ve been the weather – which is back to “normal” for late February in Wisconsin, cold, snowy, sunny. Or maybe because I was happily thinking that plans I’d … [Read more…]
I guess we’re having March in February – warm in the day time, getting down to freezing overnight. Everyone looks so happy, but I just don’t like it. There are fat, fuzzy buds on this magnolia tree I walk past. True, it’s in a sheltered spot that gets a lot of sun, and it’s next … [Read more…]
We got a lot of rain over the weekend. On Thursday afternoon, it was hot and looked threatening, but I was determined to bike to get my CSA box – afterall it’s all those cars that are making it so hot. Mark was out walking and it was getting darker and darker, but he made … [Read more…]
My basement has always leaked a little, ever since we first moved in, in 1999. At first it was just a little seepage along the driveway side of the house. I remember the unhappy discovery that the pile of old wood and construction scraps that the prior owners had left there had actually been functioning … [Read more…]
Unwritten anyways. I’m doing one of my back and forth weeks, down to Chicago on Tuesday, back to Madison Wednesday morning, and now back to Chicago Friday. The weather’s been back and forth-y, too. It was winter over the weekend, for Valentine’s Day, which was a Sunday. The day before was probably the coldest of … [Read more…]
We’re having another of our global warmed winters in WI. We were supposed to have a blizzard on Tuesday and Wednesday this week, but all we got was about 3 inches of wet snow, that changed into slush and rain. One night last week we got about three inches of pretty snow, and one … [Read more…]