The O-Zone

Normally when the weather forecast calls for ‘x’ amount of snow, we get less than predicted. And we were actually hoping that pattern would hold true for the current weather forecast. Alas. And not a lack of snow! The prediction was for a foot of snow this week.  Since our driveway is barely navigable as […]

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Since last Saturday we’ve had a foot of new snow fall, and temperatures in way below zero range. The lowest we saw was -16F and then it warmed up to -14F. That gave us hope. A bluebird!!  Well, bluebirds are one of the earliest spring migrants, so even though we still had well over a […]

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Spectacular sunset last night. The snow WAS melting, but then the temperatures went into the single digits overnight, and that put a screeching halt to any melting that was going on.  Nature was just letting us know that winter isn’t over, yet, and don’t let us forget who is in charge around here.

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It just makes for somewhat boring pictures. It has been a very snowy winter this year, but never a huge amount at any one time, just four inches here, five inches there, enough to lull us into a false sense of not needing to plow the driveway.  Again. Got another four inches of snow again […]

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Not much in the way of sunny skies around here, which means the solar panels don’t have a lot of work today.  Right now they are completely covered with snow, in any event, so the fact it’s completely foggy/cloudy is somewhat irrelevant. Last fall the plum tree held up several hundred pounds of rowdy black […]

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Snowing today, and clear skies are promised for this afternoon.  That will be nice.  We’ll need to clear the solar panels and give them a chance to do some work.  Also the satellite dishes need to be brushed off. I was trying to catch the snowflakes on the camera but they were a bit too […]

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Well, I guess that depends on what level of technology it is you’re talking about, so need to qualify this subject. New technology is great, except when you rely on it. Fortunately we have contingency plans since you can really only count on new technology to fail when it most inconvenient. First example. Our gas […]

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Need to get this out of the house so I stop playing with it. I decided Santa needed a doll, so I made a princess doll from Frozen. Then I decided he needed a sack. Next he’ll need a sled and twelve tiny reindeer. I need help!

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Finally finished. Yay!  

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I had an idea in my  head for this ornament, and it kind of worked out the way I thought it would.

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