There’s beauty outside even when the high is -18 degrees
Sure it's cold, but the sun's out and it looks beautiful today. We had 40 mph winds with snow yesterday and there's lots of drifts. I noticed how pretty they were when I drove...
We had 30 degrees F for an hour
As we had a very long window of preparation, we were able to do a lot to be prepared for the frost we felt was inevitable. We picked tomatoes for three days, ending up...
Is Spring ever going to come?
We got 18 inches of blowing and drifting snow just recently, and winds up to 40 mph! And that was on top of the foot or so of snow that hadn't melted. On the...
Winter came…in October
Thinking back to Laura Ingalls Wilder's book, The Long Winter, we looked outside to five inches of new snow and nighttime temperatures in the low teens. And it's not Halloween yet. Yuck! We still...
We rushed to get ahead of the monsoon
We listen to the weather radio every morning. And last week they started warning of very heavy rains headed this way. We needed rain, but several inches? Will wanted to get a spot on...