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Day Sixteen; Footnotes; As This Day Winds Down
Well, this was a day. I awoke to a world covered in white. I watched as winter fell all day long. From snow to sleet to once again snow falling as I write this. The farthest I went outside was … Continue reading
January Fourteenth; Stay Home, Stay Safe, For Yourself and Your Loved Ones
The sky is an amazing clear blue. The temperature outside is warmer this morning than yesterday. It is difficult to believe we are moving closer to the arrival of a winter storm predicted to be bad. I’ve seen articles, I’ve … Continue reading
January Thirteenth; The Most Important Preparation
Smoke from the wood stove is drifting low through the woods out back while the sun tries to shine through the cloud covering. The temperature is just above freezing according to the computer so the dogs are curled up in … Continue reading
Day Forty-eight; Footnotes of Preparing for What May Come
The warnings keep coming. Rain, sleet and freezing rain are supposedly headed this way. While we do deal with a little more of the freezing / frozen stuff than Texas, we still don’t deal with a lot. It rarely snows … Continue reading
Day Forty-seven; Footnotes of a Glorious Day, Not so Glorious Elsewhere
When my son came in from work this evening he finished pulling my wagon of wood onto the front porch. I had loaded it and moved it most of the way, but with how much I had loaded into … Continue reading
We are not invincible
I know better but I did it anyway. I just watched video of the bad vehicle pile up in Fort Worth Texas. One article I read said over a hundred vehicles were involved. One update does have it currently at … Continue reading
For the Sake of Comfort
I made an excuse not to go to the in person church service this morning because I was concerned over the potential for difficulties caused by other drivers. And while it was partly true, there was also the fact that … Continue reading
Words from The Dirt Road 