blog entries: weather
Endless cold, darkness, & snow. I can’t stay warm. I can’t get enough light. I don’t ski.… And as I’m posting this retrospectively in mid-March, I realize that I cannot remember whether my weather app was displaying temperatures in Celsius (i.e., these temperatures are cold) or in Fahrenheit (i.e., these temperatures are bloody cold). Either is entirely possible. Either would be entirely unremarkable.…
Two weeks ago, I posted about the second Sunday night storm in two weeks, which caused the second power outage in two weeks and also butchered one of our apricot trees. Well, the following Monday.… [And] last night? …
Last Monday, we woke to find an unexpected 8″ of wet snow blanketing everything. It split one of our apricot trees almost in two (40% loss, assuming the other 60% survives), and caused hundreds of individual small power outages across the state, including here at Hearts’ Ease. Power came on here 11 hours later — but thousands had no power until Tuesday. So it shouldn’t’ve been a surprise when we woke up this morning…
When I first learned that I had cancer (while attending Campers’ Week at Pinewoods), a good friend urged me to spend as much time as possible outside, walking in the sunshine.
And when my father-in-law heard last September that I had cancer, he wrote a very supportive note with many kind thoughts. This is the most relevant today: .…