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Cabin Fever Big Time

Posted on16. Feb, 2010 by Mrs. Mecomber.

*****sighhhhh****
Pardon me as I recollect…

Can’t you just smell them?

I wonder how my new bed in my Secret Garden will turn out this year. I’m so desperate I don’t even care about how ugly that sump pump pipe looks.

Ah, to see green again….

It’s been so gloomy this winter. I haven’t had cabin fever like this in [...]

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Just Try and Knock This Over, Buddy

Posted on28. Jan, 2010 by Mrs. Mecomber.

We haven’t had hardly ANY snow this year, but the snowplows have gone wild! There are three road signs along the front of my property, and two of them are fallen on the curb, the victims of the maniac snowplow driver. One of them (a “No Parking” sign) is horribly mangled, as if the snowplow [...]

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Snow Machine Vehicle

Posted on12. Feb, 2009 by Mrs. Mecomber.

This snow machine vehicle, a hybrid of a tractor, automobile, and steam-roller, designed in 1924, is fantastic! I want one! I think we could use some of these in Upstate New York!
Armstead Snow Motors from Seeking Michigan on Vimeo.
From the site:
In January 1926, Time magazine reported: “Having used the motor car for almost every [...]

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No More Chances

Posted on31. Jan, 2009 by Mrs. Mecomber.

Well. I guess we’re not getting our January Thaw.

Here’s hoping for an early spring. Usually we get a reprieve of winter’s gloom and cold about the last week of January. No such thing this year. It was a freezing cold January, up until the bitter end. We got up to a whopping 12 [...]

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Condition 1

Posted on25. Jan, 2009 by Mrs. Mecomber.

We’re back to the deep freeze here in Upstate New York. But February is on the way!! Plus, I saw this video, taken from Antartica, and I feel suddenly warmer with my 5-degree NY weather!

That’s a scientist who lives in Antarctica, showing us what a Condition 1 storm is like on the icy continent. BRRRRR!!!!

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