Ok! So apparently, people do comment on my posts. I was feeling a bit unloved because I had received zero comments on my last two posts. Actually I had received several comments, but for some reason am not receiving the email notifications. So I just thought everyone was hating and turning up their noses. Additionally, [...]
I tweeted a similar article today; here’s the Grand Forks version. Grand Forks is the Coldest City in the Lower 48. The article says anyone who survives a winter in ND deserves an award, haha. I think a lot of people equate coldness to having a lot of snow. Did you know that isn’t true? [...]
Continue reading about saturday brain dump: brown Christmas edition
Sometimes guests come to visit you because they want to. Other times, they come because they need a place to hide. That was the case for our second set of (very short-term) Memorial Day guests last night! I told you a little about our exhausting weekend. My friends arrived Thursday afternoon and left very early [...]
Well well well, it appears that I had a birthday over the weekend. What follows are a lot of photos. This really ought to be about 3 posts, but oh well. I’m giving them to you all at once. Because I truly had the best birthday yet (at least, of my adult life), and I [...]
Many of our winters end with minor, moderate, or major flooding. The worst of such flooding (in Grand Forks) happened in 1997. During that flood (known creatively as “The Flood of ’97″), the river water rose to 54.75′, flowed over the embankments, and wiped out much of downtown Grand Forks and its neighboring city, East [...]
Sometime, I’ll get a better picture of one of these. But for now, here you go. I shot this picture about a month ago, while driving to work. This is one quarter of a sun dog. A sun dog is basically a circular rainbow that forms around the sun on very very cold days. (We’re [...]
Thanks to twitter pal and fellow ND-resident ajthompson6 for the title. My Better Homes and Gardens magazine, March issue–the subscription for which came free with a cookbook–says: “Spring has sprung! In every region, it’s time to hit the ground running with these early season garden tasks.” Every region, eh? Okaaaay*. For the midwest it says: [...]
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I know I’ve written about this before, but mainly about the lack of stores here. Now here’s something else I tend to notice. Do you ever go on sites like Rue La La* or Gilt*? One of the things they sometimes sell on these sites are deals on hotels, spas and restaurants. These are never [...]
That’s what I heard our neighbor shout to us earlier today as Mr. N was teetering over our roof with a big broom and a sack of calcium chloride tablets. See, on Friday night I happened to look up in our kitchen and noticed this. That was not there before. Hmm. Our house is what’s [...]
It’s time for something fun from the photo archives. By the time January rolls around in ND, we’ve mostly forgotten what the ground looks like without snow. So this’ll be a nice reminder. I waited so long to post these mainly because I hadn’t found the time to edit them… they’re from a variety of [...]
Continue reading about looking back to a time before there was snow…
Late-20s yuppie, professional techie, terminal student. I probably live farther north than you do. (