Archive for December, 2008
Christmas Lights Are Done
Say what? Yes, this past Sunday I put the finishing touches on my outdoor Christmas lights. My daughter wanted more lights, so I gave in and added two hundred more lights to a little bush near the garage.
I started putting lights outside on December 1st and honestly haven’t done much after one week. I put [...]
Cover Up To Avoid the Chill
The wind is blowing today and the temperature has dropped into the 20s. We might get to the mid 30s, but you have heard the saying…’with the wind it feels much colder.’
Wind takes heat away from your body faster than when the weather is calm. The wind chill was developed to give you an idea [...]
Favorite Christmas Specials
I know that they get played every year at this time and they might seem to get old; but I still look forward to watching Christmas specials. Obviously the one’s that I remember as a child are the best. So if I had to list my three favorite specials they would be:
By far and away: #1) A [...]
Tart Cherries Are Sweet
I saw some tart pitted canned cherries on sale at the local grocery store this past weekend. They were $1.50 a can instead of the normal price of over $3 a can. I bought two for future use.
My favorite pie is cherry, but I rarely make it because my family is into chocolate and not [...]
Termites On The House
Noticed a piece of trim next to our garage door that had holes in it! Upon further inspection it was apparent that termites and eaten their way up from a concrete crack that allowed the little buggers to burrow their way from under the driveway slab up the wood siding.
We have a termite company that inspects our [...]
Why I Love The Weather
Yesterday was a great example of why forecasting the weather is fun.
While we had an active day here and thank goodness no one or nothing got hurt. We did set the December 11th daily record for rainfall at 1.4″
The weather was even crazier elsewhere…. Snow in New Orleans, are you kidding? No for the first time [...]
Charging For Waste
I admit, my mom drilled into me that I should clean my plate because… ‘there are a lot of starving people in China’. So to this day, I don’t waste food.
When I go to a buffet, which as I get older is a rarer event; I do like the fact that I can try things that [...]
Pattern Change, Warm Christmas?
Ever since mid November, we have had a weather pattern of below normal temperatures in the east and in the western U.S. it has been above normal.
I have seen this rule of thumb often over the years of forecasting…warm in the west cool in the east and visa-versa. The weather moves in waves and its [...]
Freeze and Eat Later
We made beef stroganoff last spring and it makes twice as much as our family needs. So we cook on casserole and freeze the other.
I surprised some of my co-workers when I told them that we made it in February and it tasted like it was cooked yesterday. They mentioned the dreaded words: FREEZER BURN.
No, [...]
How much snow this year?
Ever since the middle of November we have been mostly below normal for temperatures. The trend looks to continue into the weekend into next week.
Did you realize we have already had 0.4″ of snow this season? Most of it melted on contact when we had that brief snow on Friday Nov. 21 and flurries on [...]
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