Our bitter cold is holding tight but the end is in sight
Yeah, we're darned sick of below zero temps, night and day with windchill temperatures of -5 to -60 degrees. (Did you know that your skin can freeze within 5 minutes when it's that cold?)...
Rain, rain, and more rain
We've been dashing around in between raindrops trying to get fall stuff accomplished. No fun when it's in the forties and raining continually. (Will says "welcome to Washington" as it's what he hated when...
All of a sudden, spring has sprung
From lows of -5 degrees F just a few nights ago, today's high is supposed to be in the low 60s! Holy cow, that's warming even our nights to the high 40s. Yep, the...
In between rains, we’re still able to work outside
We're very glad to have been getting rain, as we'd been in drought all winter. I'm hoping this means our drought is done with, so we'll have a "normal" summer. While we've sure dealt...
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...