Tag: climate change
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August Rain
The morning’s heavy rain ebbs and flows. There are flash flood warnings for our area, yet again, the summer rains finally challenging the drought, but also, often bringing too much water at once. Still, it seems all the earth welcomes this life sustaining wet. The piles of boxes in the house and garage are much…
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Smoke
A dark, smoke choaked, Tolkienesque day. The air quality is “Very Harmful” and getting worse so, given my asthma and post-polio, I am in the house with the air conditioning going. As happens a few times each summer, smoke from Canadian wildfires has traveled great distances to reach, and settle over us. As Canada warms…
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A Cold Day
Today is a cold, bright, snow covered day, following Saturday’s storm that brought the birds to the feeder in mass. Yesterday morning we were meeting friend’s early, for a long delayed cup of coffee, and were exultant to discover that “the guys” had cleared our driveway. We have now managed a healthy winter, certainly ending…
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Monday Morning
It’s a mostly cloudy morning after a rainy weekend. There is a distinct chill to the air and house, although it is not really cold. In fact, the weather seems to be on the mild side of seasonal norms. I imagine this past weekend was difficult for many of us. The government seems intent on…
