We finally received a snow worthy of winter around Valentine’s Day. It still is fairly pathetic compared to what a real winter should have (100+ inches is respectable). I set out to shovel the driveway and my daughters pleaded with me to shovel the entire contents of the driveway onto the already significant pile that had been created by the ( Read more... )

Damn it is cold up here! The thermometer got down to minus 10 degrees last night and with the wind it felt MUCH colder. It barely broke out of the single digits for a high temperature yesterday. There was a story on the radio this morning about a worm digger who literally froze into his boots out on a mudflat. It was a considerable amount of ( Read more... )

A few months ago my company installed water coolers for our use. There is one directly outside my office. During each use it makes the requisite “glug, glug” as water is dispensed and large air bubbles make their way towards the water’s surface inside the bottle. Every time I hear that sound I think of my grandfather. He passed away ( Read more... )

Happy New Year to my LJ friends ( Read more... )

I am sure that I am not unique in having songs that, when played, remind me of a very specific moment in my life. I have many such songs that remind me of memories so vividly that I can literally smell the surroundings of the memory. I have a whole series of songs from my childhood that used to play on the radio in our barn that make me smell ( Read more... )

Alright, it has been more than a month since I posted and your patience will not be rewarded with a good post.......sorry ( Read more... )

I know I should not complain about the rainy weather as there are plenty of you who have suffered through much worse wet weather recently, and also those of you that desperately need the rain. Nevertheless, I am growing weary of my lawn resembling a rice paddy. It is almost made worse by the fact that we are occasionally teased with a sunny and ( Read more... )

I am sitting here at my desk waiting for the day to end. Despite the fact that I have a tremendous amount of work to do, I feel terribly unmotivated to accomplish any of it. It does not help that the sounds of dozens of small children playing in the yard of the daycare center directly behind our building are filling my office. Some days it gets ( Read more... )

Today is my 38th birthday ( Read more... )

I want to thank sarahshevett for letting me know about a show that is on PBS about cows, and more specifically showing cows at the Fryeburg Fair. As you might deduce from my user icons I adore cows, especially Guernseys. I grew up in New Hampshire on a small farm where my family “played” farmer for a number of years, raising Guernsey dairy cows as well as ( Read more... )