Showing posts with label weather. Show all posts
Showing posts with label weather. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 25, 2022

The Rains Are Here (Hallelujah)

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Third straight day of rain, hooray.  The smoke is gone. I don’t think the forest fires are actually put out yet, but it won’t be long. The r...
Wednesday, October 19, 2022

Smoke and Drought

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In a typical year, the fall rains begin sometime in September. School starts, and it starts to rain within a couple of weeks. We quite ofte...
Saturday, April 10, 2021

Yard work (Before and After)

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This past week, the first week in April, has had typically schizophrenic weather. Bright sunny days alternate with gloomy, freezing days - a...
Saturday, September 26, 2020

It’s Pear Time!

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We had a bit of a windstorm a couple days ago, and as usual, it knocked a bunch of pears off the trees. Went out and collected some today -...
Tuesday, February 12, 2019

Snow for Days (Sno-Crastination)

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It’s a repeat of 2017 - snow up to the roof. This picture actually taken yesterday; it snowed more overnight. It’s been snowing on and off f...
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Monday, April 9, 2018

Baby Goats Make Grey Days Okay

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Bunny needs to be beaten off the fruit trees.  The babies are learning what’s good to eat (blackberries! Yum!).  Paloma, being gently attack...
Sunday, March 26, 2017

Farmhand Frustration

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My oldest daughter, Rowan, moved out last December. She was twenty-two at the time, so I can't really blame her, but we miss her aroun...
Wednesday, February 8, 2017

Snowpocalypse 2017

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This is the west side of my house. See the snow up to the ROOF? Admittedly, this is a drift. But anytime there is snow up to the roof, ...
Monday, February 6, 2017

Doing Chores in Winter Wonderland (Too Old for this Shit)

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It is snowing. It is snowing sideways. It has been snowing sideways for the better part of four days. There is a foot and a half of snow on...
Sunday, January 8, 2017

Peace and Birdwatching

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There was controversy surrounding our christmas tree this year ( O (Dead) Christmas Tree ); a controversy that resulted in us having ...
Sunday, April 3, 2016

Pasture Patrol, Spring 2016

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After evening chores today I decided to walk the perimeter fence of the big pasture, something I have not done in some period of time rat...
Sunday, June 28, 2015

Heat Wave (Here and There)

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The last week has seen temperatures in the high 80's, near 90, every day. The skies have been bright and clear. As close as I live to th...
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Monday, March 23, 2015

Work Pile

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There is so much work piled up around the farm that I figured I had better make a list. Not that I'm likely to forget what needs doing, ...
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Sunday, March 1, 2015

State of the Farm, Early Spring 2015

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This has been, nearly, a year without a winter. We had a hard freeze and a few inches of snow way back in November, and several frosts over ...
Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Weather Weirdness (Charts and Graphs)

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The weather changed about two weeks ago from warm and sunny to warm and wet. Well, of course it has cooled off - enough so that I have brok...
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Monday, April 28, 2014

Warm Weather Work (Slug Shoes)

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Today brought the first real warm weather of the season, by which I mean I'm pretty sure it was over 64 degrees fahrenheit. In any case ...
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Thursday, March 27, 2014

It Rained a Murder

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The weather has all of us in a funk. It simply will not stop raining for more than an hour or two. Yesterday I saw the sun and ran and did ...
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Sunday, February 23, 2014

Snowstorm 2014 (Photos)

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The children have been complaining about the lack of snow this winter since, oh, mid-December. Boy are they are happy today! It's bee...
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Saturday, February 8, 2014

Cold Casulties

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We have no snow on the ground - this picture is from a few years ago - but the past week has been intensely cold. Cold for this part of...
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Saturday, December 7, 2013

Baby It's Cold Outside (and Inside)!

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We are in the middle of one of the most prolonged cold snaps I can remember. This is the third or fourth day that the mercury hasn't ris...
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