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The Siberian Arctic blast is moving on. Kids are back in school. Chickens are feeling upbeat.        Cats are once again willing to stay out...

Well of course all the schools closed today. It's just too damn cold. I feed the huddled chickens when the thermometer tells me it's...

Of course you think I'm glued to the TV today, right? Watching a performance like no other? Doing my daily mile walk to the sound of pom...

I'm not really a numbers freak, but 2025 has always seemed very awesome to me, purely from the numerical standpoint. For reasons that ma...

Nothing like having your own words thrown back at you. Unintentionally, but still... Every once in a while, Ed and I need a reset. I suspect...

I'm pretending it's spring and that I am train hopping on some complicated trip. That is my morning. The season deceit is easy -- we...

We get this teaser -- a day, two days actually, when for the first time in many weeks the temps will creep up to just above freezing. It...

People up north tend to hate this month. (Then we move on to February and they hate that one even more.) It rarely pleases. In years when we...

I feel this winter like I'm on a bobsled rushing toward the great unknown and every time I think I've reached an stable surface, it ...

Well it's about time: I'm Covid negative, Ed has finally shed his fever (though he does still have a faint positive line).  On the o...