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Outside My Window ~ 4.04.10
Outside My Window…the sun is setting on my parents house in Catawba, South Carolina. It was a wonderful day….temps were in the mid 80’s, blue skies and sunshine. I am thinking…how I hope everyone had a wonderful day today……and a Happy Easter! I am thankful for…many things come to mind, but right now I’m thankful for the opportunity to be able to come and stay with my parents. There was a time when they lived quite far away (Saudi Arabia being the greatest distance) and I was not able to see them as often as I would have liked. The fact they are living so much closer now is wonderful! 🙂 From the…
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Outside My Window ~ 3.28.10
Outside My Window…the sun is setting and the clouds are building up once again. We have a pretty high chance of thunderstorms this evening with rain continuing throughout the day Monday. Today for the most part was a beautiful day….temps were not as high as last weekend, quite a bit cooler actually. But we did have a lot of sunshine and it was very nice while sitting in the sun. We have another low pressure system that is going to move up the coast tonight and tomorrow…there have been so many since last fall I have lost count. On the plus side, the rain helps keeps the pollen down…..on the…
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Outside My Window ~ 3.21.10
Outside My Window…is a cloudy but warm evening. The clouds are building up with rain forecast for later tonight and tomorrow. We had the most incredible weekend. The first day of spring was beautiful….sunshine, blue skies and a temperature of 76ºF. It couldn’t have been a more perfect way to welcome in the first day of spring. Today was just as wonderful…..again with the sunshine, blue skies and high temperature of 76ºF. The clouds didn’t begin to build up until later in the afternoon. Rain is expected this evening, Monday and Tuesday….the temps won’t be as warm as this past weekend, but they won’t be too bad either. I am…
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Outside My Window ~ 3.14.10
Outside My Window…is a cloudy and dark evening. I’m a bit late today but thought I would change it up some and do one in the evening. I was on a roll this morning, the weather was decent and I took advantage of it to get some things done outside. Of course, we have had rain since Thursday so it was pretty wet but I did manage to get a few weeds pulled. Most of my outside time was spent cleaning out the shed. I had made a note to do that as soon as possible ever since the night I had to go check a breaker and almost couldn’t…
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Outside My Window ~ 3.7.10
Outside My Window…is a wonderful 59ºF with sunshine and blue skies at 2:30 p.m.. A little later post today….I woke up and dove right in to spring cleaning. I took a break to eat some lunch and thought it would be a good time to finish this post. We are at our forecast high for the day but the temperature tomorrow will be in the mid 60’s with lots of sunshine. I have noticed more and more robin redbreasts around the yard…..a sure sign spring is not too far off. I am thinking…I’m not so fond of the raccoon that has been coming into the backyard to snack on the sunflower…
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Outside My Window ~ 2.21.10
Outside My Window…is blue skies, sunshine and 38ºF. And we have had a moisture free weekend…that makes two in a row. Our forecast high is for 57ºF today. Our next chance of rain is Monday afternoon and evening. Our next chance of snow is Thursday with a forecast of a few snow showers. But our high for that day is forecast in the 40ºF range, and because of the previous days of 50ºF plus weather, I doubt it will cause too many problems. I believe we are getting a little late in the season for snow to impact us too much until spring. That doesn’t mean we won’t get a…
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Outside My Window ~ 2.14.10
Outside My Window…is 30ºF, sunshine and clear, blue skies at 9:30 this morning. We currently have a wind chill of 21ºF with a mild breeze outside….enough to make my wind chimes sing to me. Our forecast today is sunshine with a high of 41ºF. Can’t complain too much about that. I did wake up to light snow yesterday morning….that was the third Saturday in a row we have had snow. This was not much of a storm though……very light snow flurries, maybe a half inch accumulation with all traces gone by this morning. The one thing that has struck me as I have driven around is the mountains of snow…
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Outside My Window ~ 2.7.10
Outside My Window…is sunshine and blue skies at 8:15 a.m.. The temperature this morning is 24ºF and a breeze creating a wind chill of 13ºF. Our high today is forecast at 35ºF with sunny skies. Oh, and of course……there is snow and ice. Yes, another fun filled weekend of winter weather. Actually this weekend was different from the last….we got more rain and sleet prior to the snow this time around. The snow was much wetter than last weekend which resulted in more objects being covered either fully or partially with snow. Some of the trees are quite beautiful with the snow and ice stuck to the branches. Fortunately there is…
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Outside My Window ~ 1.31.10
Outside My Window…is sunshine, beautiful blue skies…..and oh yea ~ lots of snow!! I took a ruler out this morning in the front, 6 inches. But I have to agree with neighbor, I think there was more yesterday before the sleet came in the early evening. It did sleet for a little while, then we got maybe another inch on top of that. If you walk out on the roadway, you can hear the ice crunching underneath your feet. Authorities are still recommending everyone to stay off the roadways unless you need to travel. I have no need to travel that badly! Many places were closed yesterday, including the mall…
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Outside My Window ~ 1.24.10
Outside My Window…is a cloudy afternoon around 2:15 pm, and about 65ºF. I believe we have a forecast for rain this evening, rain and wind tomorrow. The temperature is wonderful out, first time in a long time I have been able to go outside without a jacket….comfortably anyway. 🙂 There was sun shine when I woke up, but the clouds quickly took over around noon. I am thinking…about the drive earlier today. I took Cailin out again and happy to report there is good progress. Today we drove for about an hour and a half and approximately 50 miles. We began at Newport News Park and headed north to Williamsburg, drove the Parkway…