Working outside is great during the summer (rain storms excluded), but during the winter it kind of sucks – more some days than others. Blizzard conditions where we get an inch of snow in a half hour and have it[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
My hands can get pretty cold, especially my right when I’m on the computer a lot (the curse of the mouse hand!), but the girls’ hands are frickin’ ICE. Probably wouldn’t even show up on thermal scans. I blame it[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Yep, every time Arwyn went down either the steep slope or even the medium one, the entire area heard nothing but “Oh, gosh! Oh, gosh! AHHHHHH!” and the she’d flop down on her back and lay there at the bottom[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Yeah, so as we head into our first snowpocalypse of 2024, some people are worried about the roads, some are worried about supplies, some… are just wondering why there’s not already more on the ground. Eight inches? Bring it! Says[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Arwyn desperately wants to live in a winter wonderland, but she and I have very different opinions on what constitutes “wonderland.” I swear that we used to get a lot more snow, a lot earlier in the year when I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Full credit to them that it’s held up to some of the high winds we’ve had come through, and if they packed some snow on top of it, it might actually be a decent shelter, but they need to stick[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It was just typical Michigan weather, really. Give us a taste of spring, then as soon as we start to enjoy it, smack us in the face with a snowball. Soooo sick of snow. Of course, the crappy weather is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
On this week’s episode of “I’m too old for this crap…” Honestly, I’ve never been a big fan of sledding – it involves being out in the cold – but it was fun riding down with them. And inevitably crashing[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As much as the girls love tromping around in the snow, having adventures, and building stuff out of snow, they’re both pretty tired of the cold and are ready for some grass to run around on and t-shirt weather and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Yay, snow. Whee. 😛 At least the girls had a great time with the snow in the backyard. Kia’s a little disappointed that her snowgirl fell over, and she wants to know why the squirrels didn’t protect it. I told[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…