It hasn’t just been hot–temperates flirting in the triple digits–recently. No, it’s been positively sultry, too, in North Carolina. Heat on its own is fine. Humidity on its own isn’t fine, but it’s tolerable. Combine the two? Downright miserable. It’s bad enough that you need air conditioning in the car. I’m a roll-the-windows down kindContinue reading “On Summer”
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On St. Patrick's Day
Overall, yesterday was dismal. Snow and sleet in the morning, changing over to rain by the afternoon. Precipitation fell all day. I wrote 2500 words yesterday, finishing up a story that had been in a stuck position for a few weeks. Surprisingly, the writing came easily, and after dinner I finished the writing. Then IContinue reading “On St. Patrick's Day”
On the Morning's Reflections
Rain, not snow, is the order for the day. North of Raleigh there might be a “wintry mix”–how I love that term, one I never heard living in Pennsylvania–but here temperatures will stay well above freezing all day. Roads today will be wet, not wild. Yesterday I stopped by Suncoast Video at the mall downContinue reading “On the Morning's Reflections”
More on pains
The kidney doesn’t ache today. I actually find this worrisome. Has the kidney stone moved? Lose one pain, gain another. My right hand hurts like hell. I worked the yard Sunday trying to clear off leaves from last fall, and a massive blister formed on the palm between thumb and index finger, only to drain,Continue reading “More on pains”
On Strange Weather
Yesterday was beautiful. Sunny, warm with temperatures flirting with seventy. It rained through the night. Temperatures fell into the forties. But the rain ended before the alarm clock went off, and while the world looked dreary on the way into work, I thought the worst of the weather was behind us. Hardly. The clouds wereContinue reading “On Strange Weather”
On Sneezing
I wouldn’t feel quite so bad were I not sneezing all the time. If I’m not sneezing, I feel as though I’m about to sneeze. If I don’t feel as though I’m about to sneeze, I feel like I have something squishy stuck in my nose. And then I sneeze. And sneeze. And sneeze. AndContinue reading “On Sneezing”
More Snow
Thursday was warm, temperatures in the low forties. What was left of the ice and snow from the day previous melted off. More snow was in the forecast, though. Snow showers, starting after midnight. At midnight it began to rain. At one it had changed to a mix, rain and snow. Now, at four, it’sContinue reading “More Snow”
Snow Day
It snowed in Raleigh today. A week ago the temperatures were in the seventies. Two days ago the high was twenty-five. Today was slightly warmer, and for three hours this morning snow fell. The snow hadn’t started when I arrived at the store at nine. Half past ten the flurries started. By one-thirty it wasContinue reading “Snow Day”
That crazy weather
The past week in Raleigh the weather has been absolutely beautiful. Blue skies, high temperatures in the mid-70s. Yesterday saw spring showers off and on all day, but it stayed warm, and at night I needed the ceiling fan because the house was downright stuffy. This morning the temperature was in the mid-50s and falling.Continue reading “That crazy weather”