I’m so happy, my sinuses are starting to clear up and I’m going off to yoga this morning. What are you all up to?
Our Finny has started to stand up and cruise at the coffee table a little bit this week – no end to the new trouble he can find that way. 🙂 I guess it’s time to finish babyproofing.
I’ll probably be catching up on work missed this week from being in bed off and on with a respiratory infection for 3 days. More importantly, the bird feeder needs refilling.
We have a few purple crocus here too…which I don’t remember seeing before, only daffodils. 🙂
We took Finn to a St. Patrick’s Day parade up in Bethlehem yesterday – he really liked the bagpipes and drums, and was even clapping along. Too cute. One of his triplet friends (Katie) was even dancing her jig!
The kids were too cute. Plus, we had Finn, Katie, Fiona, and Lindsey…pretty much cornering the market on Irish-type names. 🙂
And of course, it feels like the weekend has flown by again. I need to go grocery shopping and make pies with CBtY today – tomorrow is pi day and thy celebrate at school with, of all things – pie!
Is anyone else having a problem with thinking that the news can’t get any worse every day, and then sure enough, it goes ahead and exceeds expectations?
Springtime seems to be arriving, even here: snowmelt, streams flowing, grass & daffodils arising. Soon the geese should appear overhead. Can’t wait ’til we see 40 degrees!
Much as I love these early warm temperatures, the truth that something’s deeply wrong is always at the back of my mind.
That said: last year I heard the first Canada geese heading north overhead on March 15. This year, too: heard them first on March 15!
The turkey vultures are back now, too. Ugly as they are up close, they’re very impressive birds.
We’ve lost most of the snow & ice around the house, too — while I think we’ve gained a stray kitty. It seems to be living under the back porch. No sighting yet, but I’ve seen its little tracks in the old snow.
Various plants are waving hello around the house, too. Amazing how some stay green throughout the winter, beneath the sheltering snow.
I only see them overhead though — I wish they would land at the lake but I guess it’s not big enough for them. Some of them do land at the national wildlife refuge about 40 miles away. Some day I’m going to have to go over there to see if I can get lucky.
Ever tried the wildlife sanctuary at Lake Monroe that’s just off Kent road at the Monroe/Brown line? There’s a nice observation platform to watch and shoot photos from. Let me know if you need a map.
Its on McGowan, just off Kent Rd., less than a mile, IIRC. I don’t remember a Rogers Rd. in that neighborhood. Speaking of mapping, here’s something you might like to explore sometime. Its a project I’ve been working on for several years, finally finished enough and got all the official permissions to put it up live.
Fortunately, I had a lot of help with it. Its based on the first 911 emergency map that we started out with back in the mid 1990s. There have been a few upgrades and changes since that one;-)
I forgot to mention a the special bird food plantings that were done there awhile back to help attract more customers to the refuge area. Its pretty darn busy there at certain times of the year and at others, nada.
Hah, I’m older enough than you to remember when getting lucky meant finding someone selling really cheap pot that hadn’t been cut with something like oregano. 😉
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It’s certainly not as orange as the old site was. Some of the shadings (For example, when a link darkens from a previous click) are difficult for me to see. I have real issues with these shadings that I made known. I doubt that I’m the only one. Apparently it fell on deaf ears.
No campers till June 12 — which just doesn’t feel that close yet. But that’s okay since I don’t want to rush through spring. Mid-April to mid-May is my favorite time of year.
We’re taking CBtY to the Furthur concert tomorrow night – the tickets were his 16th birthday present, I’m hoping the warm weather from today sticks around a little longer…
We’ve got more rain in our forecast — the sun has been showing up so infrequently I’ve begun to consider every time it does, a small miracle — but the temps are going to be in the 60s.
March 16, 2011: Mark your calendar. On March 19th, a full Moon of rare size and beauty will rise in the east at sunset. It’s a super “perigee moon”–the biggest in almost 20 years.
“The last full Moon so big and close to Earth occurred in March of 1993,” says Geoff Chester of the US Naval Observatory in Washington DC. “I’d say it’s worth a look.”
Full Moons vary in size because of the oval shape of the Moon’s orbit. It is an ellipse with one side (perigee) about 50,000 km closer to Earth than the other (apogee): diagram. Nearby perigee moons are about 14% bigger and 30% brighter than lesser moons that occur on the apogee side of the Moon’s orbit.
A propitious night to see Bob Weir and Phil Lesh play. Although they’ll probably play crappy songs like Picasso Moon and Standing on the Moon. But a good Mountains of the Moon would be kewl.
It was just a small weed popping up but it made my heart happy to see it. And then yesterday I saw that the maple trees have started to bud which made me even happier.
Yuck. Yuck. Yuck. Why don’t the weather gods let spring be spring?
I hope it warms up soon but if we’re are a forecast for you, it doesn’t look good — we’re going from a high of 72 on Wednesday to a high of 44 on Thursday.
Looks like I got back just in time! maybe I won’t have to wait 10 months for a new snow cave after all (just kidding!). (sounds like rain so far though) And good morning, all!
Areas of blowing and drifting snow in the evening. Snow. Snow may be heavy at times in the evening. Snow accumulation of 5 to 7 inches. Lows 15 to 20. Windy. Northeast winds 20 to 30 mph. Chance of snow near 100 percent.
Wednesday
Cloudy. Light snow likely in the morning…then slight chance of light snow in the afternoon. Snow accumulation up to 1 inch. Total snow accumulation 6 to 12 inches. Highs 20 to 25. Northeast winds 15 to 25 mph. Chance of snow 70 percent.
Yesterday, on return to the country I had to drive around a “road closed” barrier to get home. The bull dozer they used to move all of the last blizzard’s snow full messes up the road so bad they’re not letting any traffic through.
And tonight we’ve got thunder and lightning along with this blizzard.
I was getting ready to complain about the traditional spring ants that appeared around the kitchen sink yesterday, but after NDD’s weather report, they don’t seem like much of a nuisance in comparison.
Oh, you mean like, “Up in Smoke”… ha ha! Those whipper snappers were just in Fargo recently. At $56 per ticket, I passed. Saw them before anyway, only tickets were probably $10 C, since it was Winnipeg.
Snow on deck averaged over 9″.
Time to shovel off the upper deck and feed the birdies. I’m betting the hungry this morning.
Good morning!
Spring is definitely here, little wildflowers (don’t know their names) popping up on every lawn and elsewhere.
Cool morning s – around freezing, but low 60s and sunny days in the forecast.
Planning a trip for young asklet to come visit me in Geneva next week. He has a 2-week spring break coming up and will take one of them here.
Freezing rain and slush yesterday evening, waiting to see what today brings. I could do with some traditional spring ants, a crocus even more. Hope FSM is sending better weather to ND and IN.
I’m so happy, my sinuses are starting to clear up and I’m going off to yoga this morning. What are you all up to?
Our Finny has started to stand up and cruise at the coffee table a little bit this week – no end to the new trouble he can find that way. 🙂 I guess it’s time to finish babyproofing.
I’ll probably be catching up on work missed this week from being in bed off and on with a respiratory infection for 3 days. More importantly, the bird feeder needs refilling.
Sorry you’ve been sick – I hope the spring weather helps you feel a little better.
Speaking of birds, we had a bluebird out on the tree outside the kitchen window yesterday. Definitely spring here!
Feeling much better today and there was a purple crocus open in our yard this afternoon!
We have a few purple crocus here too…which I don’t remember seeing before, only daffodils. 🙂
We took Finn to a St. Patrick’s Day parade up in Bethlehem yesterday – he really liked the bagpipes and drums, and was even clapping along. Too cute. One of his triplet friends (Katie) was even dancing her jig!
I’m jealous of people having blooming flowers. I’m am so ready for some color.
But the image of the kids at the parade puts a smile on my face.
Your flowers should be coming soon!
The kids were too cute. Plus, we had Finn, Katie, Fiona, and Lindsey…pretty much cornering the market on Irish-type names. 🙂
And of course, it feels like the weekend has flown by again. I need to go grocery shopping and make pies with CBtY today – tomorrow is pi day and thy celebrate at school with, of all things – pie!
The daffs should be out in a week or so but the rest of the wildflowers won’t show until some time in April.
The next time you’ve got all the the kids together, I hope you’ll have some pics (or video).
Is anyone else having a problem with thinking that the news can’t get any worse every day, and then sure enough, it goes ahead and exceeds expectations?
And then there are burning questions such as, which is the greater disaster, the nuclear accident in Japan or Scott Walker? Ack!
Tough choice, there. 🙂
Hopefully the recall effort will succeed.
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Good morning Andi! Either I’m going blind or the evil overlords are still at work.
Good (next) morning. Well much as I don’t wish evil overlords on you, that does seems preferable to being blind. 😉
Sadly, I didn’t check the photo when I was outside their sphere of influence.
Well it’s just rocks — though you could probably use a few of them to throw at the evil overlords.
Beautiful photo, Andi! Terrific patterns.
Springtime seems to be arriving, even here: snowmelt, streams flowing, grass & daffodils arising. Soon the geese should appear overhead. Can’t wait ’til we see 40 degrees!
Later, everyone!
Yay for spring!
It’s getting milder and milder here too. Makes up for the whole clock change disaster…
It is fine to see the change begin but what I want is to see some leaf buds — I need the promise of green.
OTOH, it’s going to be 70 tomorrow! Maybe that will encourage the daffs to pop out and give the brown and gray world some color.
70? Dang! Is that normal?
Much as I love these early warm temperatures, the truth that something’s deeply wrong is always at the back of my mind.
That said: last year I heard the first Canada geese heading north overhead on March 15. This year, too: heard them first on March 15!
The turkey vultures are back now, too. Ugly as they are up close, they’re very impressive birds.
We’ve lost most of the snow & ice around the house, too — while I think we’ve gained a stray kitty. It seems to be living under the back porch. No sighting yet, but I’ve seen its little tracks in the old snow.
Various plants are waving hello around the house, too. Amazing how some stay green throughout the winter, beneath the sheltering snow.
The pansys are here ~ just delivered to the shop across the street.
Wow! It’s really happening. Thanks so much for sharing these images, ID. With no jackets! Holy cow.
(Forgive me, but the winter’s been so long up here.)
I thought everyone could use a little color right about now;-)
Think the temp made it to the mid 60s this afternoon.
A little color is heartening indeed!
So far the most colorful thing around here is our cat Sadie ..
That is just way too early. The weather won’t be ready for planting for another 2 months.
Hi WW,
70° temps in March are not unknown. Neither are snows in April or killing frosts in May. Indiana doesn’t have a climate; it only has weather.
Hoping you have only light snows and a sweet spring.
What a sweet sentiment. Thank you, Jim!
Just before dusk I saw our first robin — tugging away at a worm in the wet soil.
No, it’s not normal — 50s are normal — but it does happen every now and then.
The geese and vultures stay here all winter but when I start seeing lots of the cranes overhead, I’ll know we’re getting close to spring.
Cranes! They must be great to see. Lucky you!
I only see them overhead though — I wish they would land at the lake but I guess it’s not big enough for them. Some of them do land at the national wildlife refuge about 40 miles away. Some day I’m going to have to go over there to see if I can get lucky.
Ever tried the wildlife sanctuary at Lake Monroe that’s just off Kent road at the Monroe/Brown line? There’s a nice observation platform to watch and shoot photos from. Let me know if you need a map.
No, I didn’t even know it existed.
I found it (North Fork State Wildlife Refuge) on Google Maps. It looks like you go from Kent Road to McGowan Rd to Rogers Rd. Is that right?
Its on McGowan, just off Kent Rd., less than a mile, IIRC. I don’t remember a Rogers Rd. in that neighborhood. Speaking of mapping, here’s something you might like to explore sometime. Its a project I’ve been working on for several years, finally finished enough and got all the official permissions to put it up live.
That’s pretty cool. It must have taken a lot of work.
Fortunately, I had a lot of help with it. Its based on the first 911 emergency map that we started out with back in the mid 1990s. There have been a few upgrades and changes since that one;-)
I forgot to mention a the special bird food plantings that were done there awhile back to help attract more customers to the refuge area. Its pretty darn busy there at certain times of the year and at others, nada.
I’m old enough to remember when ‘get lucky’ had a certain meaning.
This might not apply to you at the refuge unless you’re really wild.
🙂
Oh, those wild migratory birds:)
P.S. I hear cabin fever does that to people.
That could explain why the refuge traffic waxes & wanes ..
Hah, I’m older enough than you to remember when getting lucky meant finding someone selling really cheap pot that hadn’t been cut with something like oregano. 😉
Also too, do you remember ‘catnip’ as a verb?
🙂
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has anyone else found the new Daily Kos to be more effort to figure out than you want to expend?
What’s a nice girl like you doing at a place like that? 😉
I just wandered into the wrong neighborhood, I guess. 🙂
DK4 is teh sux. There, I’ve said it.
I wonder if we’re the only ones who know…
I’m sorry, but what is ‘Daily Kos’ .. ?
It’s some orange place. But then I’m color blind. 😉
So, you must see it as kinda medium-dark. That’s how I see it, too.
I can see the orange but probably not as others see it.
Interesting thought! I’ve always assumed there was just one way to see orange. What color is the orange you see?
</Zen koan moment>
It’s certainly not as orange as the old site was. Some of the shadings (For example, when a link darkens from a previous click) are difficult for me to see. I have real issues with these shadings that I made known. I doubt that I’m the only one. Apparently it fell on deaf ears.
Not surprising. Iirc, that’s a strictly top-down outfit.
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A lovely, tranquil scene, soon to be populated with your young and numerous summer neighbors;-)
I saw your comment before Andi’s pic loaded & expected to see a dog’s belly.
🙂
No campers till June 12 — which just doesn’t feel that close yet. But that’s okay since I don’t want to rush through spring. Mid-April to mid-May is my favorite time of year.
This is a gorgeous shot, Andi. Just love it.
Thanks. Sometimes things just don’t line up right … and make the shot. 🙂
Absolutely! Just like life.
😛
Good morning, everyone!
Beautiful day here – a bit cool (mid-40s), but sunny and great forecast for the weekend. Certainly spring now.
Good morning ask! Mid 60s this morning in south-central Indiana, a very pleasant change.
Hi, id.
It’s actually getting much warmer. Just back from French classes and lunch and we’re now in the mid 50s.
TGIF and past the day’s hump.
Hi ask!
We’re having a beautiful morning here – going up to 72 today. I better head off to the office so I can come home early and enjoy it…
Hope everyone has a great day!
It’s going to be low 60s here, but not quite as warm as by you. Winter does not easily give up its grip. It will be cold again next week.
I hear snow is in our forecast for next week. ergh.
Oh no! I thought it was spring now ~ sorry:(
Yeah, that’s what I thought too. 🙂
How are things out your way?
We’re taking CBtY to the Furthur concert tomorrow night – the tickets were his 16th birthday present, I’m hoping the warm weather from today sticks around a little longer…
What a great gift! Hope you all enjoy.
Have a great time!
For us it’s Tax Day, the day when we finally do our returns. I’ll be glad to have it done.
So sorry. 🙁
We’ve got more rain in our forecast — the sun has been showing up so infrequently I’ve begun to consider every time it does, a small miracle — but the temps are going to be in the 60s.
I hope our nice temps will head your way.
I’m having images of beautiful mountain meadows full of wildflower — but I suppose there’s a long time to go for that.
Not quite there yet…
… look up tonight.
“Good night moon”…
A propitious night to see Bob Weir and Phil Lesh play. Although they’ll probably play crappy songs like Picasso Moon and Standing on the Moon. But a good Mountains of the Moon would be kewl.
It was an amazing sight here last night viewed over our reservoir.
At one time our neighborhood was called ‘Moon Hill’. The reason why was crystal clear last night. Big golden lovely.
It was hazy here but still impressively large and bright.
Not last night, but it was pretty big on Friday as well.
Bleh. What am I doing in the office at this time?
Yuck. Working on the weekend is the pits. Working on the weekend at the office makes the pits look good.
Beyond the pits, indeed. Managed to limit it at about 3 hours.
xkcd puts radiation in perspective.
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That great green. I can almost smell the chlorophyll through the screen.
Morning ask.
It was just a small weed popping up but it made my heart happy to see it. And then yesterday I saw that the maple trees have started to bud which made me even happier.
It’s snowing heavily here. And yesterday I was outside playing soccer with the b2 boy. Sigh.
Yuck. Yuck. Yuck. Why don’t the weather gods let spring be spring?
I hope it warms up soon but if we’re are a forecast for you, it doesn’t look good — we’re going from a high of 72 on Wednesday to a high of 44 on Thursday.
Up to 8 inches of snow tomorrow. Yikes!
Nooooooooooooo!!!
Eek!
I hope it melts fast.
Looks like I got back just in time! maybe I won’t have to wait 10 months for a new snow cave after all (just kidding!). (sounds like rain so far though) And good morning, all!
Tonight (Tuesday)
Areas of blowing and drifting snow in the evening. Snow. Snow may be heavy at times in the evening. Snow accumulation of 5 to 7 inches. Lows 15 to 20. Windy. Northeast winds 20 to 30 mph. Chance of snow near 100 percent.
Wednesday
Cloudy. Light snow likely in the morning…then slight chance of light snow in the afternoon. Snow accumulation up to 1 inch. Total snow accumulation 6 to 12 inches. Highs 20 to 25. Northeast winds 15 to 25 mph. Chance of snow 70 percent.
Yesterday, on return to the country I had to drive around a “road closed” barrier to get home. The bull dozer they used to move all of the last blizzard’s snow full messes up the road so bad they’re not letting any traffic through.
And tonight we’ve got thunder and lightning along with this blizzard.
Wow! Stay warm, NDD. Hope more pleasant weather is in your near future.
Thanks Indianadem,
I’ve got plenty of firewood stored indoors, so I’ll remain toasty even if we should lose power.
As of 10:40 PM we’ve got 7″ on the front and back decks, so the screen doors are pushing snow now.
Ah, so that where all trees went!
I was getting ready to complain about the traditional spring ants that appeared around the kitchen sink yesterday, but after NDD’s weather report, they don’t seem like much of a nuisance in comparison.
Oh, you mean like, “Up in Smoke”… ha ha! Those whipper snappers were just in Fargo recently. At $56 per ticket, I passed. Saw them before anyway, only tickets were probably $10 C, since it was Winnipeg.
Snow on deck averaged over 9″.
Time to shovel off the upper deck and feed the birdies. I’m betting the hungry this morning.
You and olivia should get together and commiserate. They’ve still got plenty of snow in Ottawa too.
Good morning!
Spring is definitely here, little wildflowers (don’t know their names) popping up on every lawn and elsewhere.
Cool morning s – around freezing, but low 60s and sunny days in the forecast.
Planning a trip for young asklet to come visit me in Geneva next week. He has a 2-week spring break coming up and will take one of them here.
I hope you’re going to take him hiking … so I get to see lots of beautiful mountain pictures. 🙂
That is a distinct possibility, we’ll see what his preferences and priorities are.
This one kind of plateaued but it’s just a short drop to the end.
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Love those little waterfalls! They make happy sounds.
That’s a drop of about 10 inches. I think calling it a waterfall might be a little grandiose. 🙂
Mighty purty one ya got there, AndiF.
I can hear it gurgling too.
Snow on the crocus. (a couple of inches right now) Film at 11:00. Will winter ever end?
Poor flowers. Poor you.
It’s spring here — we’re going from a high of 72 today to a low of 32 tonight. Yep, that’s definitely typical early spring weather in Indiana.
Well we had our 40 degree temperature drop which was accompanied by howling winds but thankfully no snow.
Hope the weather gods are treating boran2 and NDD much nicer today.
Freezing rain and slush yesterday evening, waiting to see what today brings. I could do with some traditional spring ants, a crocus even more. Hope FSM is sending better weather to ND and IN.