December 23, 2022, storm surge on top of 11.6 Tide. — Things I find on the beach-reblog via Things I Find on the Beach…Digression…

It was a long day on Friday, December 23, 2022, as Boston Harbor paid us a pre-Christmas visit, about a foot and half of water in the front part of our cellar. Luckily the furnace is up on blocks, as our the washer/dryer we replaced from the last flood in 2018. With climate change and […]

Snow in April — April 18, 2020.

There is something strange about all this…this time and uncertainty.  Overnight it did snow so perhaps it is just as well they are not running the Marathon this year. Yesterday it was bright and sunny, the winds still high.  People on the beach with their children and dogs, all different combinations.  Looked out the window,

Literary references and random thoughts: gray icing and blue roses.

There seems to be a lull in our winter right now.  It’s February without snow on the ground, at least not yet.  February tends historically to be the month of “big snow” with blizzards that bring snow in feet and not inches.  And sub zero temperatures that permanently seal ice to the ground. Silent fear

Digression: Acorns in August.

Today, it was a day you could not order on demand.  The sun was shining and there was no humidity and a good breeze to cool you but not knock you over.  The perfect day to work outside and so I did some work cleaning up debris by our cellar stairs and also tiding up