Here We Snow Again
Okay, I rarely post more than once a week anymore, but I can not keep such weather joy to myself. I must share! My drive home from work:
In wood and water, earth and air,
A silence everywhere.
— Loreena McKennitt, “Snow”
Okay, I rarely post more than once a week anymore, but I can not keep such weather joy to myself. I must share! My drive home from work:
During the year of the snowless winter that sucketh, it was difficult for some citizens of the Minnesota kingdom to get excited about skijoring. Those people (like me) who tend to be more into the fun aspect of hooking up to a dog and having her bound down the trail, propelling them on their skis…
Okay. I’ve been rewriting this blog post all week because it keeps sounding too negative and depressing. I think a lot of what I’m thinking and feeling comes from aging and feeling all the possibilities move out of reach in so many areas of my life. It’s hardest at work, where most people are younger…
The weather was good for an outdoor day. By 11:00 it is was in the 20’s with wind, but compared to how cold it was yesterday, it was downright beautiful. I started out by driving out to the stable, with Java as my copilot. I’ve been too busy or the weather’s been too cold for…
It reached the low 70s today.Cloudy and muggy but an event just the same. The warm, humid weather has brought out the gnats already. As I rush around after work each day, it seems like there is too much to do and not nearly enough time. I’m sure no one out there can relate to…
“No dog has ever said a word, but that doesn’t mean they live outside the world of speech. They listen acutely. They wait to hear a term—biscuit, walk—and an inflection they know… To choose to live with a dog is to agree to participate in a long process of interpretation—a mutual agreement, though the human…
Finally! A nice day! Yeh! See Maery doing the happy dance! You know it’s been tough weather-wise when a bit of sun and temps in the 60s make you crazily jubilant! Lots got done today – raking, cutting down some buckthorn, gathering and burning branches, clearing flower beds of leaves and old growth, a couple…
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Good grief! Enough already.
Oh the dogs make it hard not to smile … but warm wishes to YOU.
Yuck! I couldn’t imagine still getting snow!! Hope it warms up for you soon. Although the dogs sure do enjoy it!!
Go away winter! Go away winter! Although the dogs might be disappointed!
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Love the photos of the dogs playing. Someone should enjoy this…shouldn’t they? I love to snow shoe but I am DONE, DONE, DONE…I want to move on to planting a few things (in this shortest of all growing seasons EVER!)and get to biking already.