After being crazy hot the in mid-August, it’s been cool and rainy for the last week, giving us a preview of September and October. I went looking for a fall picture, remembering the banner below: I thought I might find some nice fall-y food shots, but what I found instead was a whole set of […]
Whatever that is – My brother’s writing about the string of snow days in Seattle that disrupted his schedule, and I’m in Madison still feeling conference-time-shifted. For me, rather than snow storms, I think it’s the perfect storm of a long weekend in Dallas, including one twilight zone day, (capped off by Mark’s bout with […]
We are having an extremely mild winter in WI – no snow, and the average temp is like 35 degrees, probably. The lakes are still open. All the municipalities around WI are saving a ton on not having to plow the roads – the figure given for for Madison on the local news last night […]
This morning there was snow on my neighbor’s roof – I took the picture through the window screen. I had a meeting at an office that’s almost exactly half way between home and work, and when I left there about 10:00, it was sleeting – one of the guys coming in for the next meeting […]
Or, as the woman on her cell phone in the ladies bathroom when I got to work was saying, “When I got up this morning there were 6 inches of snow on the ground”. National Weather Services says only 4 1/2. Still. It’s the really heavy packy stuff.
Yesterday I biked to work without even needing gloves. Today is like the third day in a row with highs close to 70 degrees, in November, in Wisconsin. I think maybe this is the year when it’s just not going to get cold at all. What does that do the Wisconsin psyche? We live here […]
Last night, in the midst of a torrential downpour, I entertained 17 ladies for a baby shower. I knew that it was going to be a somewhat alternative-type affair, but I didn’t know how alternative till I got there. They were all Hospice Care workers, and the mom-to-be is single – no dad in the […]
We had a couple of days of unseasonably hot weather – almost 80° in April – and I thought all the blooming things would pop out and die fast – like in Hunter’s lyric for Eyes of the World – “the seeds that were silent all burst into bloom and decay”- (and whaddya know, the […]