Category: Stories
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Late Mid-Summer
A hot, humid late mid-summer day. After weeks of off and on rain, this week is forecast to be mostly dry. We had little rain last week, although rain had been forecast, so this week’s dry spell inevitably reminds of of the drought of recent years. A couple of weeks ago Jennie and I traveled…
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Beaver People
Today dawned overcast and warm, the humidity palpable. The wind is now whipping the trees in gusts. We just took a look at the radar; it looks as though things will soon get stormy. Certainly we need the rain. While trees are predominantly green, some leaves are beginning to put on fall color; the Japanese…
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Mid-September Check In
This morning is very cool and crystalline. We’ve had some rain and the vegetation has responded nicely, giving rise to a green landscape with hits of autumn. Sadly, we remain in serious drought and what rain we receive is too little and too late to help farmers salvage this growing season. Hopefully, we will receive…
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A Stormy Day
This morning is blustery and wet, gusts of leaves flying past my window. Increasingly, the landscape takes on the hue of late autumn. My last post was truncated by WordPress. The culprit appears to have been a page break. If you only read a paragraph you missed most of the post. Yesterday I was having…
