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Refusing to learn from experience
Sometimes, there is some wisdom in doing something yourself so you can actually understand it. Regarding the winter weather debacle in Georgia, this is NOT one of those times. This is not the sort...
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Mild winter day
Today has not been beautiful per se, but it has been quite mild. The temperature reached about 50 degrees today, mild enough that I started a project that needed to be done outside. We have some old...
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Wintry mess coming tomorrow
I have a doctor appointment in the morning, and then work in the afternoon and evening. I don’t know exactly what the morning rush hour will be like but I am guessing it will be a hell of a mess....
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More medieval cooking on a snowy winter’s eve
This week has become one snow event after another, and we are starting to actually run out of places to put the snow when we shovel. There are really only two piles: the big one on the other side of...
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Medieval mutton stew, slightly modified
Great stew for a cold winter’s eve. I used the mutton stew recipe I mentioned yesterday to make this, but I did make one change: I added yellow carrots, which would certainly have been known in Europe...
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Cambridge in the snow
You may have heard that we’ve gotten some snow this winter. You may have heard that it’s been a little, um, chilly this winter. You’d be right on both counts. I’ve been taking some pictures. Some of...
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Thoughts on winter in New England
A lot of people hate winter, especially after so many days and nights of snow and cold temperatures. People complain bitterly about it and pray for spring to get here faster. I am not one of them. I...
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Winter’s last hurrah
We got a slight covering of snow today, maybe an inch or a little more. And the temperatures plummeted a good bit from the mid-50s we had the other day. Right now it is about 18 degrees Fahrenheit,...
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Yeah… about that “winter is over” bit
A little while back I had commented about how we were experiencing winter’s “last hurrah”. Oh, man was I wrong. Now, today I wore shorts, because aside from being very windy it was just gorgeous...
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Trees don’t lie
I’ve noticed this over the last few days walking to and from work. Can you see it? Look closely. It’s there, I promise. Did you see it? How about here? This one is easier, you have to see it here....
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Winter is here
Last night the temperature dropped well into the teens, and it hardly felt any warmer this morning when I got up and went to work. So it’s safe to say that winter is no longer just coming, it’s here,...
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A gentle reminder that this is New England in winter
Although we are WAY under our usual quota for snow so far this season, winter has decided to let us know that it is still here, and that all those warnings from the Starks were not for nothing. This...
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Snowpocalypseageddon 2: Winter Strikes Back
Well, after we had the original Snowpocalypseageddon event two years ago, I figured since that was so epic it might be a while before we have anything like that again. But I was wrong, apparently....
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The Great Blizzard Freakout of 2015
You may not know this (I am assuming a lot of Amish read our blog), but we are going to get a lot of snow very soon. Yes, clearly we are already headed for the history books on this one and it hasn’t...
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Time to break out the barbed wire and football pads, everyone
In popular culture, there is sort of a trope that when the actual apocalyptic event is over, there is always a struggle among the survivors over the few remaining resources. To some extent, the same is...
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The last 24 hours have been insane
Wow. Even though I am not much of a football fan, I have to say that last night’s game was pretty dramatic. We changed the channel during the game when the Pats were losing so we could watch Downton...
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Yet another winter storm
Well. As I said to one of our neighbors recently, “I like winter, but I am not used to getting it all at once.” This winter may have started off pretty mild, but starting at the end of January, we...
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Snow, snow everywhere – with pictures
This afternoon I got dressed to head outside for some quick errands: drop off some DVDs at the library; stop at the market across the street from the library for some milk; shovel out the steps and the...
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The North, Hardhome and Season Five of GoT
It has been a long time since I wrote anything about ASOIAF/GoT. And there’s only a couple of weeks until Season 4 is out on DVD/Blu-Ray, and a couple of months until Season Five starts. So Kelly and...
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I am sounding like a broken record by this point
but we have yet another big snow storm on the way. Another blizzard, in fact. This winter has already breached the top 10 highest snow totals for Boston since records began, and after this next batch...
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