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Latest tagged entries for 'SEASONS CHANGING'
Spring
Sunday, 3 May 2009 8:25 A GMT-05
Small green leaves are poking out of previously bare branches. The magnolia, tulips and forsythia are blooming. The ostrich fern is desperately trying to beat the likes of fiddlehead hunters like us, the asparagus is poking up, the onions are i
Out with the Old
Saturday, 11 April 2009 3:44 P GMT-05
It was a good, long, hard sugaring season but now it's April. The wood frogs are out. The snow is almost gone. The grass is getting greener and the daffodils are about to bloom. We're definitely due for one more snow s
On the March
Sunday, 8 March 2009 8:19 A GMT-05
Yesterday it was in the 50s, sunny, and a as a consequence, muddy and wet, with the two or three feet of snow still hunkered on the ground in the sugar bush no longer willing to support any weight at all. Snow shoes would perhaps be called for
Seasons Changing
Saturday, 17 November 2007 11:56 A GMT-05
Yesterday it snowed for the first time, making my commute into work a little messy. I was glad to see snow, evidence that we don't live in the Deep South after all, but Lionel saw it for what it was; the beginning of winter and the last of
Snow White
Friday, 9 November 2007 6:48 A GMT-05
For the past few days the weather gods have been threatening a chance of flurries during the wee hours but every morning I look out the window and only see frost on the rapidly browning grass. Lionel hates it when I say this but I want snow. Yo
Fall
Wednesday, 24 October 2007 5:46 A GMT-05
Yesterday morning as I left the gray sky in the west made a stark contrast with the sugar maples, which had all finally turned a brilliant shade of orange, and a clearing in the gray from the east allowed the sun to add a low morning light, the resul
Fall Harvest
Monday, 10 September 2007 9:53 A GMT-05
It's September and there is much to do.We've got most of our wood in (though it's not in the basement where it needs to be but stacked outside, and "most" is relative) but we still have an entire row of carrots to process in one
August
Monday, 27 August 2007 5:47 A GMT-05
Saturday it was too hot to exist. We finally broke down around 6pm and decided to go find an air-conditioned restaurant far enough away so that the air conditioning in our car would have time to cool us down. That night we gathered all the fans
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Seasons Changing
Tuesday, 14 August 2007 5:45 A GMT-05
This weekend was beautiful weather and relaxing, not a weekend for stressful news about miners or cynical news about politics or the state of people's health in the U.S. It certainly has no room for stories about people who live on a riv
Progressions
Thursday, 10 May 2007 8:24 A GMT-05
I'm back.Maybe.We'll see.A week ago I finally released the motorcycle from its winter hibernation and, taking advantage of a bottle introduction session (another pregnancy myth debunked: breastfeeding is not "convenient ". Un
Spring Snow
Monday, 26 March 2007 5:49 A GMT-05
The geese are back.Once the ice breaks up on the local ponds, they will fly fairly low over our house in the evenings, so low we can hear here the air coming off their wings. When they do this they are silent. But when they're high up
And the maple flows again
Monday, 26 February 2007 6:57 A GMT-05
The weekend's weather was glorious, despite the threat of a Midwestern storm racing towards the East Coast (said storm is supposed to dump all of an inch upon us before petering out entirely). Sunday topped up over 32 degrees and last night wen
Looking Ahead
Thursday, 22 February 2007 6:46 A GMT-05
I smell sugar in the air.
This morning it is an appropriate 13 degrees out, but yesterday's thermometer topped 34, reminding me that we need to gather our sugaring things together and start bleeding maple trees again. This year we have almos
Snow
Tuesday, 23 January 2007 6:55 A GMT-05
We both drove through actual snow to get home last night, and it was still falling silently when we went to bed. It didn't accumulate much, maybe two inches. But that's more than we've had in ages, especially snow which didn't freeze to a
Ringing in a Brand New Year
Tuesday, 2 January 2007 6:45 A GMT-05
Our traditional New Year's Eve celebration usually involves a luxuriously expensive bottle of champagne, finger food, and a long evening at home. But since our alcoholic experience has been severely curtailed, we had to find some other way of c
The Times They Are
Friday, 22 December 2006 6:48 A GMT-05
It's frustrating to live in what has become the Seattle of the Northeast, especiallu when there is obviously plent of white stuff to be had elsewhere. That same storm is aching to come over my head, but is getting forced out by a persistent hig
Let it Snow
Friday, 8 December 2006 6:51 A GMT-05
Hey look! Snow!
Don't look now, but it seems like winter has finally settled on New Hampshire, just in time for Christmas. They've been threatening snow for a few days now--flurries here, flurries there, but finally last night I drove ho
Glimpses of Retirement
Monday, 27 November 2006 6:45 A GMT-05
We had enough time on our hands to find out what domestication would be really like if only we had time for it.
First was Turkey Day, which was very nice, with the evil weather holding off until just before we got into the car to travel to my mother
A first in November on the second
Thursday, 2 November 2006 6:51 A GMT-05
Hey look! Snow!
Well the good times had to end sometime. Most likely the stuff falling on my still torn up lawn won't accumulated, but still it's a sign none of us should ignore: the winter season is upon us. Pick up your toys and
Wood Be Yankees
Monday, 23 October 2006 5:47 A GMT-05
This is the price and the pride of heating entirely with wood.
Threatened by the possibility of snow, we began to move our hard earned stash, which has been drying outside all summer, down into our basement, where it will get stacked an
Apples, Pumpkins, Leaves
Tuesday, 12 September 2006 5:53 A GMT-05
I'm not sure how but we seem to have slipped directly into Fall. For the past few days I've been getting up before the sun, and as usual my brain believes this is wrong, so even though I have gone to bed at the same exact time and gotten the s
In Comes the Cold
Monday, 28 August 2006 6:00 A GMT-05
In case this weekend left any room for doubt: autumn is coming.
It didn't help that the sun never came out, so the whole weekend was a uniform dreary gray. But on Sunday it started out unseasonably cold and steadily dropped through the afterno
Warming the Tundra
Wednesday, 24 May 2006 5:56 A GMT-05
Yesterday, as I was leaving to go outside in the 34 degree May morning, I sarcastically told Lionel that I wanted to move to Alaska. When he asked why, I told him i had to assume it was warmer there. Alaska is known to be cold, right?&nbs
Unseasons in NH
Tuesday, 9 May 2006 6:03 A GMT-05
This is the second time I've heard this in two days, and I honestly can't figure out why anybody thinks this is news.
I'd like someone to conduct a poll of New Englanders, to find out if a majority of us really did "delight" in the mild wi
Gardening in New England
Monday, 8 May 2006 6:00 A GMT-05
Spring is in the air.
The smell of tomato plants, too. On Saturday the weather threatened rain and wind so we spent most of it indoors, transplanting tomatoes from little peat starters to big grown up peat pots, which eventually themselves wi
