Posts Tagged ‘cold’
Dock Rescue
April 12 is now officially the earliest date that I have physically entered a body of water in the state of Massachusetts. It is a personal record that I hope will never be broken. It was a perfect spring day for yard work, warm and dry. That’s exactly what I was – warm and dry […]
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Tags: April, cold, dock, lake, Massachusetts, pond, rescue, spring, water
Cabin Fever Notebook
You’ve probably heard that Mark Twain once observed, “Everybody talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it.” The quote was intended to humorously illustrate the obvious point that humans can’t control the weather – or at least they couldn’t in the time of Mark Twain. Nowadays, scientists tell us that human activity not […]
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Tags: blizzard, Climate Change, cold, Daily Item, frozen, Global Warming, ice, Mark Sardella, Mark Twain, NOAA, snow, snow storms, snowfall, snowstorms, storm, storms, Wakefield Daily Item, Wakefield Item, winter
Rating Summer’s Performance
Season Fails to Meet Expectations Welcome, Summer. Thanks for finally putting in an appearance here in the northeastern United States. Now that you’ve deigned to show up, step into my office. As you know, it’s time for your annual performance review. And you might want to loosen that tie, because things are going to get […]
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