Nice day a-coming
5/23/06 5:16 am.
44 º F, Clean air and sky, S wind 3 mph.
Good morning,
it looks like a stretch of nice weather coming. The weatherman has raised the temperature predictions to about 90º F for Monday and Tuesday. That is a bit warm for us, but not a bunch we can do about it. I suspect those are the highs farther inland, as the lake should keep us some cooler, I hope. We really had a nice day yesterday.
I did get a bit of the lawn cut yesterday. Really more of a hay field than lawn at this point though. There is so much water in the soil for most of it though. Still very squishy to walk on in many places. The frogs are sure having a good time - singing all of the time. I can see my kids, when they were younger, having a ball here trying to catch them. Thor was most intrigued with frogs and worms. He was forever turning boards and wood over to catch the worms.
The area really has turned green! The wild strawberries are blooming everywhere. Unfortunately, a great number of them are being cut off by the lawnmower. There are many wild flowers also in bloom and more to come. The pine trees are also in bloom, the wind causing their pollen to blow around like yellow clouds every once in a while. The van has a coating of yellow dust on it, as does everything else. The pines are finally showing signs of new growth, but much less than other years. Guess the weather conditions were not that good for them.
We are heading to Green Bay for a supply run today. We didn’t pick up everything on our shopping list I guess. Well actually we are finding we have more needs than we had put on the list. Don’t think we will need to pick up any cream of tartar. With the season changing, our food use changes too. Not so much “heavy” cooking until the cold weather really returns again. Still ... a good homemade soup or stew is hard to beat is a good meal.
Found out why we were having such a hard time with the net on Saturday. It happened again yesterday afternoon. This time ITOL’s office was open for business. Apparently they were having an electrical power problem with the Kewaunee office, which more or less shut everything down. At least as far as this part of their system was concerned. About half an hour after talking to the tech, the system came back up, just as he said it probably would. Glad it wasn’t this machine causing the problem.
Late Sunday afternoon, the printer decided it didn’t want to work. Being that new, I was some grumpy. Don’t know what the problem was yet, but after plugging it in and disconnecting it several times without result, I got out the volt meter and checked the connections. The power was getting to the printer, so plugged it in one more time - it worked. Must have had my tongue in the right cheek or some such, which I didn’t do before. I have no idea what the problem was.
It is interesting to watch the webcam from Enschede and compare the weather with here. Seems when we have rain, most often it is sunny there and vice versa. The green of their trees is ahead of the green here too. There were a few umbrellas in view today and it looks to be a sunny day here. Folks there are also wearing light jackets there and here it will be a shirt sleeve day for sure. Warming up enough here for us to put all of the winter clothing away and the summer clothing out again. Also put some into the “Goodwill bag” and will drop it off today along the way.
Time to get the day a-going
In Christ My Saviour,
Chris <><
44 º F, Clean air and sky, S wind 3 mph.
Good morning,
it looks like a stretch of nice weather coming. The weatherman has raised the temperature predictions to about 90º F for Monday and Tuesday. That is a bit warm for us, but not a bunch we can do about it. I suspect those are the highs farther inland, as the lake should keep us some cooler, I hope. We really had a nice day yesterday.
I did get a bit of the lawn cut yesterday. Really more of a hay field than lawn at this point though. There is so much water in the soil for most of it though. Still very squishy to walk on in many places. The frogs are sure having a good time - singing all of the time. I can see my kids, when they were younger, having a ball here trying to catch them. Thor was most intrigued with frogs and worms. He was forever turning boards and wood over to catch the worms.
The area really has turned green! The wild strawberries are blooming everywhere. Unfortunately, a great number of them are being cut off by the lawnmower. There are many wild flowers also in bloom and more to come. The pine trees are also in bloom, the wind causing their pollen to blow around like yellow clouds every once in a while. The van has a coating of yellow dust on it, as does everything else. The pines are finally showing signs of new growth, but much less than other years. Guess the weather conditions were not that good for them.
We are heading to Green Bay for a supply run today. We didn’t pick up everything on our shopping list I guess. Well actually we are finding we have more needs than we had put on the list. Don’t think we will need to pick up any cream of tartar. With the season changing, our food use changes too. Not so much “heavy” cooking until the cold weather really returns again. Still ... a good homemade soup or stew is hard to beat is a good meal.
Found out why we were having such a hard time with the net on Saturday. It happened again yesterday afternoon. This time ITOL’s office was open for business. Apparently they were having an electrical power problem with the Kewaunee office, which more or less shut everything down. At least as far as this part of their system was concerned. About half an hour after talking to the tech, the system came back up, just as he said it probably would. Glad it wasn’t this machine causing the problem.
Late Sunday afternoon, the printer decided it didn’t want to work. Being that new, I was some grumpy. Don’t know what the problem was yet, but after plugging it in and disconnecting it several times without result, I got out the volt meter and checked the connections. The power was getting to the printer, so plugged it in one more time - it worked. Must have had my tongue in the right cheek or some such, which I didn’t do before. I have no idea what the problem was.
It is interesting to watch the webcam from Enschede and compare the weather with here. Seems when we have rain, most often it is sunny there and vice versa. The green of their trees is ahead of the green here too. There were a few umbrellas in view today and it looks to be a sunny day here. Folks there are also wearing light jackets there and here it will be a shirt sleeve day for sure. Warming up enough here for us to put all of the winter clothing away and the summer clothing out again. Also put some into the “Goodwill bag” and will drop it off today along the way.
Time to get the day a-going
In Christ My Saviour,
Chris <><
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