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This blog will also deviate from the usual format because we spent five days travelling to Cincinnati to visit my brother and his family. This involved our first trip on an airplane since the pandemic hit. Before we left, we went to The Stone Church to catch some Irish music during St. Paddy’s Week. BOIDS […]

This week is a special week around here with two significant holidays. So my blog will deviate slightly from my normal postings. PI Day March 14 is a day for Nerds to gather together and celebrate. In the past we used to host a community wide event to observe PI Day. Two years ago we

I have had the pictures uploaded for a couple of days but just haven’t had time to sit down and craft a story. Winter has not given up on us yet. We have been alternating rain and snow with some bitter cold wind thrown into the mix. The Bay ice is largely gone but the

It is the last day of February here and it is still very much winter here. We have snow cover and the low this morning was eleven degrees. I guess the weather dominates this blog cycle. We had another winter storm and this allowed us to deal with more of the wind-scaped trees. All told,

I was planning to finish out February with one more blog. Unfortunately that is not how it is turning out. We had another wind event and decided to do more landscaping by wind. Another way to phrase it is: Natural Tree Selection. We are expecting another foot of snow on Friday and we plan to

Valentines Day is a very important holiday around here as it is an excuse to doll up Cybil and prepare a feast for the family. The weather has been typical February around here, we get hints of spring and then get slammed with more winter. The critters and birds definitely think spring is a possibility.

We did a lot of brush cutting over the past two years and some landscaping by wind, losing a pine and a pear tree. We planned to burn the brush last winter but never had the right weather for it. To burn brush in Newmarket during the day, it is required to have snow cover.

It has truly been winter around here and goings on in the yard have been controlled by the weather. We had another Bomb Cyclone, Nor’easter followed by extreme cold followed by another snowstorm and then alternating freezing and thawing. This is the type of winter weather that tends to keep one trapped indoors and isolated.

I feel like I am spamming you. Taking the pictures I aspire to require specific weather conditions. We had good picture taking weather and I am burdened with over four hundred pictures which is more than enough for another blog. Our workhorse cameras are Nikon super zoom point and shoot cameras. We acquired our first,

I didn’t intend to blog this soon but have enough stuff for a blog and so here we go. Our snow is basically gone, but before it went we had some really cold and windy days and nights. Benji is not a fan of the cold, For awhile he refused to go out and poop.