it's a convoluted mess
February. January is always such a slog, but February has far too much baggage attached to it. Mech. At the beginning of the week, I opened the bedroom blinds and thought, why do things look so…orange-y? The sun was shining for the first time in…weeks? And it came back every day all week long. It’s been a nice change from all the gray and brown. I mean, it’s still completely brown out there because there… Keep reading…Always spinning…
I keep trying to start posts and then I get about three lines in and…ech. Delete. Come back later. Lather. Rinse. Repeat. We are in the middle of a four-day weekend. Bob’s company started closing for MLK Day in recent years and he took Tuesday off to use up some time. It’s nice to have a long weekend when we’re not sick since our Christmas vacation was tainted. Plague Update: Still coughing three weeks later…. Keep reading…Don’t overthink it…
November. We turned off the A/C for the last time on October 4th. It snowed for the first time on October 30th. Air conditioning to snow in 27 days. The turkeys have been hanging around almost daily under the neighbors’ bird feeders. They come running from the woods in a real hurry just to stop short under the tree for snacks. They get distracted easily and start to wander off, and then remember they were… Keep reading…Blown by the wind…
October. Sunday the 1st: 90 degrees Monday the 2nd: 88 degrees Tuesday the 3rd: 85 degrees Wednesday the 4th: 63 degrees Right then. We had like, a week of open windows in September, then it got hot again. Then it cooled down, but it rained practically every day so it was 90-some percent humidity, then it got hot again. Now we’ve had a twenty-degree temperature drop and the current forecast says it’s going to stay… Keep reading…All over town…
June. Summer. FEH. …) We held out until Memorial Day to turn on the A/C. It had been in the 80’s for several days in a row, but the humidity never seemed to get above 25% and the nights still dropped into the 50’s so the house did not feel like a sweltering hellscape. The humidity was still low when we flipped the switch, but it was 85 degrees outside and that was going to… Keep reading…Just moments moving sideways…
… Minnesota Weather Update: It hasn’t snowed in over a week now. The lawn service guys were out doing their preliminary spring cleanup, which is usually a sign that it’s not going to snow anymore. We’ve finally had weather warm enough again to open the windows, but it was raining so I still couldn’t open the windows. Unless I want rain in my house and we have enough problems with water pouring in where it… Keep reading…Straight into the ground…