We've been riding the fine line between snow and rain all night. Earlier, we had about three inches of new snow on the ground. As I sat down here to do some work, a steady rain took over, and the snow was gone within ten minutes. I'm hearing that the snow side may push back a bit later in the... Sign in to see full entry.
Monday, April 13, 2020
Sunday, April 12, 2020
I don't want to say I got bored, but I decided I had to leave the house, our idiot governor be damned. I traveled over to Marquette and met a friend of mine from over that way in a park in the Marquette Bay. We were about to head into a winter storm warning, and I wanted to catch Superior having a... Sign in to see full entry.
Well, I got a knock on my front door while I was in my 'lower level office,' commonly known as the basement. By the time I got up the two flights of steps and across the forty foot length from the back door to the front, the person(s) had made a clean getaway. As I looked out, I saw a small bag of... Sign in to see full entry.
LOL. I open my mouth and what happens? A pastor had a problem getting his Easter sunrise service to stream. Fortunately, his church was less than two blocks down the way, and I got there in time to 'save the day.' I ended up staying for the 6AM service and then the 9AM service. It was worth the time... Sign in to see full entry.
Saturday, April 11, 2020
It's a cold and quiet morning here. The coming week appears to be following a yo-yo pattern of highs near 50 and then highs of 34 all the next ten days. Most people here have been bottled up all winter, looking out the window, waiting for a break in the weather that never really came. Those folks... Sign in to see full entry.
Friday, April 10, 2020
I just added the opening salvo of a story (link repaired!) that I've been thinking about for several weeks. The entry is only about 750 words long, but it took me well over two hours to write. Now that the opening is there, I think I can keep up with a daily posting of new reading, probably written... Sign in to see full entry.
To those that observe, I wish you 'Good Friday.' As a kid, every business in town would close on Good Friday from noon until 3PM. That tradition has long since gone the way of the Dodo, but when I had my own 'main street' business, I continued it. It irritated a few people, but it kept me honest to... Sign in to see full entry.
Thursday, April 9, 2020
In typical Yooper style, two days of relative warmth ushers in three days of cold to balance it. It was 52 here yesterday and today? The high is expected at about 34 with high winds. Yee-haw! As we get toward the 18th, my mood sobers a bit. Perhaps not as bad as last year, but the date hasn't gotten... Sign in to see full entry.
Wednesday, April 8, 2020
Well, I've made the trip to the Soo and back quite uneventfully. The car ran and handled much better than it has done in the past three months. While I really didn't want to spend that kind of cash to fix that car, it's nice to not think you are riding on a time bomb. It still needs a wheel bearing... Sign in to see full entry.
With a mix bag of heavy rain and temps in the 40's, 2020 has done something that I've not seen done since I moved up here - my backyard is devoid of snow in early April. I still have huge (but melting) piles of snow in my front yard, but the back yard is empty. It is also a huge series of land mines... Sign in to see full entry.