Tag: winter
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Nosebleeds
The house is warm and dry. That is a good thing now that Wisconsin is heading into winter. But furnace air has the side effect of occasionally giving me nosebleeds. Today I got a nosebleed. It wasn’t entirely the air’s fault though. I was trolling trolls on Facebook. That made me dysregulated and edgy. I…
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Final Harvest 25
Winter is coming to Wisconsin. The garden is empty and this is the result. The carrots and tomatoes did well. Stephanie got one squash. The corn and beans were lost. Our lives as a piece of art.
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40 Degrees is Paradise
For the past two months it has been cold enough that I haven’t wanted to walk around outside. Today it was 40 degrees in the afternoon and we didn’t get rain like yesterday. So the whole family went for a walk to the convenience store about half a mile from the house. It wasn’t a…
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Christmas Snow
We got our first real snow of the winter and just in time for Christmas. I don’t know if it’ll last five days but what we got has stuck so far. Of course that means I had to shovel. It wasn’t very thick but it seemed like someone rode over the unshovelled sidewalk on a…
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Cold Days Ahead
I got dressed and walked to the local gas station with my youngest son. It was cold and dark. It is only going to get colder and darker. Christmas lights are going up in earnest and we should have snow pretty soon. Winter isn’t my favorite season, but I choose to live where the cold…
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Does the Furnace Need to Be ON?
It’s that time of year in Wisconsin that the windows can still be open during the day to have cool fresh air circulate through the house. But the nights are getting too cold to leave them open. So I play a little game at night after I close the windows where I try to guess…
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First Snow
It is snowing for the first time this season in south central Wisconsin. It’s not sticking to the sidewalks or the roads, but all our foliage is covered in white. Winter is coming I just wish it wasn’t coming so fast. But this area is home. It has been good for my kids. The air…
Latter Day Sinner 