It’s definitely shorts and t-shirts weather around here.
For some reason, we’re getting high temperatures in the upper 80s and low 90s, a good fifteen to twenty degrees above normal.   It feels a lot more like late July or August than early June.
And therein lies the rub — nobody around here is used to the […]

Well, here we are, just a couple of days away from spring (YAY!), and the weather woes continue.
This time it’s rain.  Lots of it.  We’re expecting about three inches of the stuff by midnight tomorrow.
The problem, aside from the obviously huge amount in the forecast, is that we haven’t exactly been experiencing a drought around […]

If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you’ve no doubt learned that I am officially sick of this winter.  Well, here we go again.
There’s a big low pressure system over top of us right now, and it’s dumping snow all over the place.  But believe it or not, that’s the GOOD news!
I took BJ […]

Autumn is my favorite season.
I love the fall — the cool, crisp air is always a lot less humid than the summertime conditions, and that means I can breathe more easily.  The trees put on their annual magnificent display.  I break out my mother’s recipe and have my favorite, pumpkin pie.  Football rules.
Still, I know […]

We’ve had an unusually dry summer so far, and while drought has never been an issue (it was a really wet winter and spring), some area gardeners have been hoping for some rain to spring those veggies, flowers, and lawns back to green from brown.  Be careful what you wish for; you just might get […]

I just can’t stand it any longer.
For 20 years now, the Discovery Channel has put on “Shark Week” each August, with all sharks, all the time.  24-7.  For an entire week.
I don’t know about you, but I can only take so much of a guy swimming around a shipwreck with a plasma cutter waiting for […]

Have you been following the high temperatures being reported this week?  My friend Julie lives near Las Vegas, where today’s predicted high is 106 degrees!  It’s triple digits in Montana, too, an area I tend to associate with snow and wind.
Then there are the forest fires.  I guess they call it “dry lightning” — thunderstorms […]

My blog buddy Tony over at BlogCatalog has asked that I write a post today to help raise global awareness about organ donation.  I couldn’t be happier about honoring that request.
Why?  Because organ donation has saved the life of one of my family members.
My niece Mischelle has had kidney problems for most of her life.  […]

We’ve been having an unusually high number of bear sightings around here over the past couple of weeks.
While we expect to find the occasional black bear out in the woods, folks around here are reporting black bears in their back yards.  The guess is that they’re young males looking for territory after being chased out […]

When I was in high school, one of my favorite classes was astronomy. We had an awesome planetarium, complete with all the stars, constellations, and planets. It was really neat to learn about all of those heavenly bodies, then go out at night and find the real thing all by myself.
It’s been awhile […]