Weather, random thoughts

We dodged a big weather bullet last night– but communities to the south and east of us weren’t so fortunate. Today the Weather Channel called last night’s tornadoes and severe weather ‘historic’ because there were so many tornadoes and deaths for the month of February. My heart goes out to those who lost family and friends [...]

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Spring is in the air

It was warm enough today to make me start wishing it was spring. The excitement of spring is like a jack-in-the box I must keep the lid on or it will pop out. It takes all my strength to stuff it back in, as cold weather is forecast to follow the warm and stormy weather expected [...]

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Back to winter

We went from spring weather back to winter weather this evening, all in a matter of hours. A strong cold front came through; now the wind is roaring in behind it. I don’t think I’ve heard such sustained fierceness before. The house groans and sighs as icy air is pressed through the cracks around the [...]

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Crutches are gone!

I got good news from my sports doctor today. I’m done with crutches–finally! I’ve had them since Dec. 7 so I could heal a stress fracture in my hip. Overzealous marathon training caused the stress fracture, which was on the inside curve of the femur, towards the top of the bone. It felt like a persistent [...]

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