Gonna have a regular, old fashioned heat wave this week! Temps in the mid 90s are expected. Nice thing about old houses– if you keep the doors and windows closed, the temperature stays relatively cool. Unfortunately, the attic is 1,000 degrees… and because the walls are still open, the smell of the attic insulation is [...]
Continue reading...3. July 2010
I have been as negligent of my gardens this year as I have been about blogging about them. Thank God, plants require very little care and attention. Unfortunately, the weeds also thrive on negligence. :-p But it looks like my vegetables are holding their own. The snow peas are on the brink of harvesting (I [...]
Continue reading...24. February 2010
I was shocked to hear of a huge storm coming tomorrow. I guess I have been too busy to listen to the news and weather much. WHOA! It’s been a while. Now THIS is a storm– we’re expected to get clobbered with a foot or two of snow. It may disrupt things for half a [...]
Continue reading...3. September 2009
My weatherman has been warning us from time to time of “tropical systems” creeping up into the Northern/Western Hemisphere. While hurricanes rarely hit the Northeast (they DO strike us, though– check out this post about the most damaging one to ever hit the U.S., in 1938), they usually do affect our weather. But this post [...]
Continue reading...25. August 2009
The United States is in the midst of another hurricane season. New York State was completely drenched by Hurricane Bill (THREE inches of rain in two hours!) and my yard looked like a lake again…. I can’t complain, really- other areas suffered flash flooding and there were multiple car accidents from it. And my area [...]
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5. July 2010
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