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The Science of February
There are several things that I really like about the month of February and they do not have anything at all to do with Valentine’s Day! First, it is a short month. Even with leap year this year, it is still much shorter than January. This means fewer days of anticipated cold, snow, and general…
Slice of Life Tuesday: Gray Winter Days
Today has been a day of creating. I finished a necklace, bracelet, and pair of earrings all out of semi-precious gemstones featuring the color gray. It took some work to get the pieces just right but I am now satisfied with how they turned out. There’s labradorite, hematite, imperial jasper, and zebra jasper beads featured,…
A Dogless Day
Do you know of the children’s book, The Five Dog Night? It is a short story of two old people who are neighbors. An old woman in the story worries about another character, an old man, during a harsh winter. She keeps checking on his welfare and is confused by his response. Each time she…
Frozen Lessons with a Color Poem: White
Learning to Snowshoe The thermometer on my phone told me it was seven below zero (-7) as I awoke to drive 40 pairs of snowshoes to a remote terrain in an adjacent county last Saturday morning. This is part of my new job. We had about 40 hikers signed up to join us at a…
Silent Sunday: The Dead of Winter Past and Present
Oh, that Prickly Pear!
This week I prepared a lesson on cacti for my garden club students. It’s a great lesson for the February or anytime in the winter, as it can be conducted inside. So many of our days have been sub-zero this year, it was proactive thinking to have a lesson that didn’t include being out-of-doors. Teaching…
A Week of Records: Bitter Cold Cancels Classes & College Visits, but not a New Job, A Diary Style Post
Dear Diary: This week was really odd. Our school district closed an unprecedented four consecutive days. Colleges canceled classes, and even the YMCA was closed! But, not everything got canceled. Monday: First, it was for a snowstorm in which we accumulated 8 inches in our driveway. We got a text on Sunday evening that school…
Silent Sunday: Thirty Minutes of A Single January Sunrise
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Clumpy to Clear: A Poetry Friday Post About Clouds
For close to two years now I have been watching clouds with concern. In July of 2017, I started a post that went like this, ” I said it again last night. The sky looks like fall. Heavy, billowing, opaque clouds have filled the sky at odd moments or during odd seasons in the last…