Wow, today we had a warm-up of -8° F

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After a low last night of -35, the sun came out this morning and it very slowly warmed up. Some. But, with a wind to make the windchill temperatures dangerous, we didn't spend a...

You never saw so many tomatoes in your life!

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Even we are amazed and, I'll admit, somewhat daunted. (In our garden we planted 108 tomato plants.) A few days ago, frost was predicted and we went into hyperdrive. And, because of our little...

It feels like fall

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All of a sudden, a cold front hit us with highs in the low fifties F plus very high wind. Boy was it cold! And, unfortunately, our son, Bill and his family, were scheduled...

We had a good trip down to Mayo Clinic

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Really, I hadn't planned on going as Tom's girlfriend said she was driving out from Michigan to take him down for his surgery. So, I didn't blog on Tuesday as I figured I would...

Snow, snow, snow

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Luckily, Will and I have about gotten everything wrapped up for winter. He did finally get the stone and concrete slip-form wall poured under the house, next to our walk-out-to-be basement and also the...