Does your big toe ache when a storm is approaching? Does your cat lick its paws excessively? Does your dog pace the floor and stick close by your side? Do you feel the urge to lose yourself in a cozy mystery? For some strange and unknown reason, mysteries and weather somehow go together. For example, […]
Mar 20, 2023
Has Spring Sprung?
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Happy first day of Spring! Sometime in the late afternoon, winter will pack its bags and creep out the back door while spring bustles in the front. Here in NW Arkansas, winter is hanging on. It’s cold this morning! Known as the vernal equinox, this is the time day and night are most nearly equal. […]
Feb 16, 2023
A Little of Everything
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Yesterday was sunny and warm. The Boston fern went onto the front porch to enjoy the sunshine. But, after hearing what the weather would be today, I brought it in before sunset. Then, last night, Nemo and I woke up to thunder and something that sounded suspiciously like hail. We had some wind and hard […]
Jan 30, 2023
Frozen
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Trees, grass, all are frozen this morning. This is treacherous ice, silent and invisible. But, it’s there. Roads are coated and schools are closed. There is no walking or driving on it. Try it and one misstep and it’s a sudden meeting with the ground. The only living things stirring are squirrels and birds, picking […]
Jan 29, 2023
Whatever the Weather
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Remember the children’s story about the sun and the cold wind and the bet they had? An old man was trudging down the road in the wintertime and the wind, boisterous and braggy, bet the sun that he could blow the old man’s coat off whereas the sun didn’t have that power. So, he blew […]
