Tag Archive | "winter"

Cabin Fever Big Time

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

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Cabin Fever Big Time

*****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 [...]

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Just Try and Knock This Over, Buddy

Thursday, January 28, 2010

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Just Try and Knock This Over, Buddy

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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Protecting Against Power Surges

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

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Protecting Against Power Surges

Well, winters storms are only a few weeks away, and that usually means power outages. Sudden power outages, and power surges, can cause terrible damage to electronics. I have a very high-power (and expensive) computer and monitor that I use for my business. Earlier this year, we had a severe sudden power outage with power [...]

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No More Chances

Saturday, January 31, 2009

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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 degrees [...]

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Heat Wave Coming!

Sunday, January 18, 2009

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Woooohooooo! Can you believe it?! What is it with getting older? I used to actually like the colder temperatures; not since I hit my late 30s. And for about two weeks (the same two weeks we have all been sick, coincidentally), the temperatures have held with what our weathermen like to call an “ARCTIC BLAST.” [...]

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