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WALK THIS WAY …
Well, I had planned on going to the Zoo today to take a walk with the penguins. It’s something they do every Sunday at 2:00 from December 2 until February 3. Unfortunately, the walk today was cancelled...
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BLOW WINDS … AND CRACK YOUR CHEEKS! RAGE! BLOW!
You could say Thursday was a King Lear kind of day! It started with thunderstorms at midnight. That was followed by a rapping and a tapping at my chamber door. No Raven, it was Mlle. Renee seeking...
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Just In Case You Were Wondering … It Was A HIT!
Thursday’s WINTER STORM actually arrived ahead of schedule with sleet beginning to fall a little before nine in the morning. That was followed by a heavy snow fall coupled with strong winds that...
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FROM DROUGHT TO DELUGE … RAINY DAYS AND SOGGY LAWNS!
Last summer the heartland of the country suffered from a drought. This year we are becoming totally waterlogged. Locally we are in the midst of a week or two of wet and rainy weather. Actually it has...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Unexpected
IN A NEW POST CREATED SPECIFICALLY FOR THIS CHALLENGE, SHARE A PHOTO THAT MEANS UNEXPECTED TO YOU.UNEXPECTED to me is walking outside in the middle of the afternoon to discover that everything more...
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NINE DAYS INTO THE NEW YEAR … AND MY MIND’S A BLANK!
Surely, it’s not a return of the brain freeze earlier in the week. No, I just realized that I no longer had a calendar on the desk to prod me into doing something each and every day on this blog. Then...
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YET ANOTHER ARCTIC MONDAY! NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH THE ARCTIC MONKEYS!
Well, today’s high temp of 27F was recorded at 12:ooAM and we didn’t reach the predicted morning low of 6F. But never say never, because who knows what will happen before the day ends. Don’t know...
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THE NIGHT I TOOK FLIGHT!
Well, here we are in the last hours of the last day in January. Yesterday we had a bright and sunny day where the afternoon temps reached 47F. Today the weather took a turn for the worse with the temps...
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SPRING HAS SPRUNG A LEAK, AND WINTER IS LEAKING BACK IN!
ORCHID FOR THE FOURTH DAY OF SPRING: Yes, the temps dropped back into the 20s overnight, and the predictions for the next week range from dismal to bleak. For history geeks the latest date for a...
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Weather or not, I’m still here!
The storms with the thunder, lightning, hail and high winds apparently decided to bypass the local area. And all we were given were some light showers. That’s the way it goes with weather. ORCHIDS FOR...
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WELL, IT IS THE 15TH DAY OF SPRING!
And it was a day filled with thunder, lightning, rain, hail and tornadoes … from midnight to midnight. Two tornadoes one in early warning and the other in the dark of night, and they both followed the...
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SPRING’S TULIPS … ENJOY THEM WHILE YOU CAN!
Well, the weather forecasts for Sunday through Thursday are really rather dire! Locally, they say we can expect strong thunder storms with anywhere from one to three inches of rain over the five-day...
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SUMER IS ICUMEN IN, or the not so sunny side up of yesterday’s summer solstice.
And to borrow a phrase from an old Scotsman … the best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men gang aft agley! In other words, while our summer solstice was supposed to be the longest day of sunlight, we had no...
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INTO THE WOODS … A TALE OF TWO SEASONS IN TWO DAYS!
There’s a saying in West Walnut Manor … if you don’t like the weather today, just come back tomorrow! And that’s the way the weekend started on Saturday morning. The sun was out, and it was a picture...
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Weird Storm Clouds Moving In
Since Today was the Ides Of March, I was really expecting some weird weather to move into the area. Ok, the temperatures did climb into the eighties. And our neighbor state Illinois was under several...
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