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The Fate of Horses
A cloudy, chill day; the rain has stopped for the moment. We may have snow later but it will likely not stick. Last Tuesday I awoke to a brilliant reddish sky; sure enough the old mariner’s saying proved correct and by evening we were in the midst of a storm. Hopefully all this rain will…
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Where Is Winter?
A pleasant afternoon, cool with a smattering of fluffy white and gray clouds scudding across the cerulean blue sky. There is just the hint of a breeze, just enough to move small limbs a tad. We are a third of the way through January and it still seems like November as this winter without a…
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Pushing Large Rocks Uphill
A warm, foggy, dreary sort of day, more like Eliot’s early April than January, somehow fitting given our non-winter. I’m drinking my morning cup of coffee and listening to Vivaldi’s “Summer” from the “Four Seasons”; I wonder what he would make of this. As I wrote in my last post, the Holidays rather got away…
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Awaiting The Turning Year
Today is warmer, in the forties, and cloudy. We had flurries of snow Christmas eve and Day which buoyed our spirits. Both days were cold by local standards. This followed a two day storm of rain and intense wind. There are limbs down everywhere still; after all the storms we have had this year one…
