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Groundhog Day Finally Explained
Well, by now everybody has heard the official news about what Punxsutawney Phil saw this morning since it’s Groundhog Day. On the other hand, the unofficial news is this: for some reason he saw extraterrestrials instead of his shadow. I know about it only because a drunken official calling me from the Pentagon spilled the…
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A Squall’s a’Comin’!
There’s a 30 percent chance of snow squalls this afternoon.
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Snow Squalls Predicted in Iowa Today!
The National Weather Service predicts “snow squalls” for parts of eastern Iowa today in the afternoon. Sena recognized the guy in the GIF above as W.C. Fields and wondered if there were any other videos of this scene with audio as well. They aren’t hard to find.
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Moon Halo This Morning?
I was picking up our mail at the mailbox pod this morning around 5:45 a.m. and noticed what looked like a faint circle of color around the nearly full moon in the western sky. There were streaky white clouds. Not far from it and to the left was something that looked like a big star-which…
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Sena Double Dog Dared Me to Try the Electric Snow Shovel!
Well, the snow kept coming down. I had to go back out to shovel. I was going to use my plow shovel, but Sena said I was too chicken to try the electric snow shovel. I couldn’t back down. So, I had to go out there, after the wind had changed mind you, and use…
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Sena Gives the Electric Snow Blower the Real Test!
We got a real snowfall starting last night and into this morning. Sena took the Voltask battery-powered 48V 16-inch snow shovel out and put it through its paces. We got about 6 inches of snow and it chewed right through it. It threw the snow into the next county! It took her about 30 minutes…
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Testing the New Snow Removal Tools!
We finally got enough snow to test the new shovels today. Recall we have a cordless electric snow shovel and a snow pusher plow shovel with a 36-inch blade. The battery-powered model is a 48V 16-inch Voltask. I was a little surprised to learn how powerful the electric shovel is. It comes with two batteries.…
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Don’t Shovel Your Heart Out
We’re waiting for the next snowfall. We’ve had a couple of light ones so far and we used shovels to clear our driveway and sidewalk. They didn’t amount to much, but we’ll get a heavy snow here pretty soon. We’ve been using shovels for years. I’m aware of the risks for heart attacks in certain…
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The Flowers Are Doing Well
The Christmas Amaryllis/Hippeastrum flowers are doing well. I’m getting older and often I wake up early in the morning feeling anxious and a little blue. I look at the news headlines about people who die and often they’re my age or even younger. Maybe the Christmas holiday does that. When I get this feeling of…
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CDC Reports Decreasing Respiratory Virus Activity
How about some good news? The CDC Respiratory Virus Data Channel reports decreasing respiratory virus activity as of January 26, 2024.
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