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Please, enough snow already!

Hey its March 8 (2018) and, well, i for one am pretty tired of the snow.

 

No, wait that happened on the last storm.  Last week.  The march snow is stupid heavy wet stuff.

 

  

Hey look its trying to slide off the solar panels and it kinda stuck.  I used the snow rake to remove the lower section manually becuz it lands on the walk by the door and makes a glacier.  anyway i want spring, spring spring.

Thank you for listening .  It made me feel better that u care.  Right? u care?  well if you live near here u may.  Soon the weather will turn and melt the junk.  Skiiers and Boarders have at it for now.

Till next time then – keep going , love ur family, etc.

Busy Busy

I must apologize for my lack of entertainment lately.

There is so much to do when u are recovering from a sucky too long winter and prepping for a busy summer in the middle of still earning a living by trading your hours for pay and wishing u could be done with that and trying to get the yard ready for building a garage while being slightly jealous of two-thirds of your offspring who already have one at the same time as watching Netflix too much becuz u love scifi and fantasy and then weeding out some of your cue as it seems too long a list even though the stuff u got rid of would likely b entertaining if only i could stay up 24 hours straight maybe i could get more things done.

hey who says long sentences r bad, confusing, fragmented unclear etc?

i just found this cool parable for writing, i like it take a look.

Look Here

 

 

April Morning

Well it truly is spring.  earlier this week it was close to 80 degrees (i think 77 one day and 78 the next.  Then the cold front came thru yesterday.  in about 1.5  hours the temp dropped from 64 to 44.  after another hour  it went down to 34.

Here’s what else came through with the cold front:

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When i cleaned off the car i discovered we had gotten about 4 inches of snow. April snow is not really expected here.  but not unheard of either.  A friend got married April 16th about 30 years ago, and they were blessed(?) with a storm of 18 inches of snow.

So i guess this isn’t too bad.  at least i didn’t have to go to work last night or today.

 

Tick Tock Tick Tock

Tick Tock goes the body clock.  The way its supposed to work is, u have a schedule, your biology adapts to that schedule.  After a while u don’t need an alarm clock.  u sleep and wake up, look over at the clock and its like 5 min before the alarm goes off.

(insert normal daily routine, fast forward to bedtime)

Now at your normal time your body (brain) naturally takes a chill pill and drops out of impulse drive (u spent your day at various numbers of warp drive!) and sleep happens without much effort.  The thing is so effective that if u stay up past your “normal bedtime” u may fall asleep almost on your feet. without wanting to. yawn.

Now lets take a visit to my sick and twisted schedule.  First there’s the days of work:  2 on, 2 off, 3 on, 2 off, 2 on, 3 off. repeat.  btw 12 hour shifts.  add a good sized dose of commute, 60 minutes.  top off with night shift, 6 pm to 6 am.  So basically the days i work i have a 14 hour plus work commitment. Overnight.  now i don’t mind the overnight thing, my ‘natural’ awake time.

and i have sort of adapted to it. but there r complications.  like i like to sleep with my wife when on my days off.  so i try to just nap when i get home around 7am after my work instead of ‘regular sleep’. just a few hours on the couch and then theoretically when we go to bed i sleep at night instead of work at night.  Sometimes it works.

and other times my body just naps and i wake up at say 12:35 am and the body is telling me – “hey why r u in bed, its the middle of the day?”  I can force it back to sleep by staying in bed until boredom shuts off the mind, but that can take hours and i risk waking up my lovely normal schedule wife with my tossing around.

so usually i get up, and now i can blog in the wee hours when in theory i should b sawing virtual wood.  zzzzzzzzzz  zzzzzzzzzz zzzzzzzzz

this may b shaving years off my life.  really hope not.

p.s.  –  I DO NOT RECOMMEND THIS SORT OF SCHEDULE TO ANYONE

thanks for listening, i feel a little better.

 

Seasonal appreciation

Hey just about everybody i know is longing for the end of winter and the start of spring. Ok not just about, EVERYBODY.

but look at what we all want. The end of winter and start of spring. Kind of like if a tree falls in the forest and no ones there does it make any noise?

If we weren’t sick of winter would we really welcome spring so heartily?  Would we notice?  Would it actually be spring without winter to contrast it to? Would u b thinking about all this if i were not asking u? I’m not sure what u would b thinking, but THERE CAN B NO SPRING WITHOUT WINTER.

Sap Shortfall

Well u have already heard me whine about this long cold winter. Heres another issue with the weather: The maple sap that is boiled down to make maple syrup isn’t flowing well at all. A fraction of normal. So it may turn out to be a shortage of Maple Syrup this year.  Can u say price increase?  And despite higher prices the syrup producers will still not made much. Bummer on all sides.

 

 

Clear Sky Morning

Here is a shot of the sun coming up i took on my way home:

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Note the clear cloudless sky!  only one thing wrong when u have a clear cloudless sky in winter:

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Stinkin cold!  An end to this I say!!  Lets get spring in here ASAP.

Thanks for listening.

 

Wood is good 02 – Dry Wood

So here’s the most basic principle about using firewood for heat – r u ready? DRY WOOD. Yeah about right now ur saying to yourself “is this guy for real?” Well just hold on a minute. Its true this is rather obvious but – you’d never know it by the way lots of people store their fuel. Firewood should be cut & split the year before u use it. This is a minimum. At LEAST a year. But as i drive around it is common to see firewood piled with no cover. Guess what, this aint a desert climate. Rain happens. Snow too and both will dampen that uncovered wood. If u leave it on the ground it soaks up moisture from that as well. Hey, there’s no reason for that. Grab any of the trillion or so waste pallets lying around and keep ur wood off the ground. And put something over it even if its just a tarp. Lets remember to use some common sense.

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