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Today's title is only valid in the northern hemisphere. But you knew that, right? South of the equator they're starting winter. Sinc...

It's Memorial Day Weekend. The remembrance boards for my father and father-in-law are hung. Today is also Bob Dylan's 85th birthday....

May all Mothers and families enjoy a peaceful day full of warm memories. May we all wish for many happy returns of the day. May this May avo...

I have a technical issue for your consideration this week. It has to do with equipment for Constitutional Observers. (If you missed the news...

As the Better Half and I approached the tack barn this morning at dawn, the temperature (not the windchill) varied from -21℉ to -23 ℉. It wa...

Yesterday the Better Half [BH] and I selected and cut down a youngish pine along the driveway for this year's home-grown Christmas tree....

There appears to be a relative abundance of hummingbirds at the nectar feeders with some trying to scare others away. Parents trying to prot...

Last night, in honor of the summery weather and the turning of the month, we enjoyed slices of the first ice cream cake of the season. It hi...

Winter Solstice arrived at 3:20 am Saturday, local time. The dogs and I were there to greet the arrival of the season as we walked down the ...

Were it not for our persistently cloudy skies, about 3 am this morning we could have enjoyed seeing December's full moon, known as Littl...

 I found this on the internet the other day and wanted to share: A Special Kind of Stupid Slowly, very slowly, the Christmas decorations are...

Great clouds of leaves have floated away from their homes of origin. They now clutter the ground and complicate the last grass cutting of th...

It looks like the weather may have finally turned the corner from Summer to Autumn, more than a month after the start of meteorological autu...

Today is the penultimate day of September 2024. Haven’t seen a hummingbird at the feeder all week. Wasps and/or hornets are about everywhere...

As of 7:43 this morning, local time, we are into full autumn, if not fully into autumn. The equinox has occurred but the season has not matu...

In several ways, this has been literally a shitty week My dog SiSi has had diarrhea for the past few days and, since we’re getting the septi...

It’s been an interesting week. Today is the last Sunday of Summer, meteorologically apeaking. Meteorologists begin Falling into Autumn on Se...