Walking back to the house from farm chores the other day I wondered: What’s better, mud, or perpetual winter? There are certain advantages to not sloshing around in mud–like all the stuff you don’t track into the house. Or the huge ruts you don’t make in the driveway with the truck. Just walking can be […]
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Spring arrived officially yesterday but we’re still frozen here in Upstate New York, with at least six inches of iced-over snow on the ground and overnight temperatures forecast in the teens this weekend. We don’t really see signs of a thaw until late next week when we’ll be creeping up on April. The weatherman says […]
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Finally, it was starting to feel like spring around here. Temperatures had climbed into the 40s. Snow was melting. Birds were singing. We were sloshing around in pools of water and mud when all of a sudden another one of those winter nor’easters showed up. It was, as Yogi Berra would say, deja vu all […]
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