Eliza Daley ~ Wordcraft & Musing on Home & Hope
Well, we still have not had a frost, though tomorrow night temperatures are supposed to "plummet" all up and down the eastern third of the country. We'll see what happens... It may be that we get to have highs in the 60s (°F) rather than in the 80s. Still much higher than what is expected… Continue reading The Daily: 7 October 2025
I got my bi-monthly water bill last week. After a bit of mild cardiac arrest, I decided that it was quite the effective underscore on my water use in July and August. Now, there was another rate increase this summer, but that was small compared to the use increase. With both increases combined, I am… Continue reading The Daily: 8 September 2025
The fifth moon of my solar year is the Sap Moon, which was spectacularly full in full eclipse at 2:55am this morning. The fifth moon is new between 24 February and 24 March, full between 10 March and 7 April. This is a period of rapid change. The Sap Moon rarely sees the same weather from… Continue reading The Daily: 14 March 2025
Last week, during our very brief flirtation with temperatures above freezing, my coworker announced that he could see his solar panels for the first time since December. Late last fall, he bought a house that has rooftop solar. The roof is pitched to shed snow, but there are just enough little raised edges and crevices… Continue reading The Daily: 10 March 2025
It's supposed to snow this week. We have had a few days of flurries, which is sort like flirting with winter; but we've not had Snow yet. That is what is coming. This is one of those forecasts that keeps oscillating between rain and snow, just on the border of freezing. There is no question… Continue reading The Daily: 20 November 2024
We are electing the next President today. I wish we lived in a world where things like Donald Trump did not happen. I wish that we lived in a world in which there was absolutely no question about the outcome of this election now that he has. I wish we lived in a world in… Continue reading The Daily: 5 November 2024
It may snow this week... It's been raining and in the low 40s (°F) since yesterday afternoon. I haven't seen a frost at my house, but there's been ice on the metal mailbox in the morning. Some of my co-workers who live in the boondocks reported frost last week. And we're almost a month beyond… Continue reading The Daily: 14 October 2024
I've been reading Ross Gay for many weeks now. First The Book of Delights and now The Book of (More) Delights. One delight each morning starts my day off right. In the early essays of More Delights, Ross is finding delight in Vermont. (I imagine that he was writing these essays down at Middlebury College… Continue reading The Daily: 26 September 2024
The Daily for 2 April 2024: a bit of weather... again... is it ever going to stop...
Has anyone else noticed the weather forecasting gaslighting? Or whatever is happening... Is this AI? Perhaps a computer generating models based on measured conditions maybe several days in advance and then sticking to it regardless of what actually transpires? Maybe not even based on measured conditions at all but on averages for the date? (Based… Continue reading The Daily: 26 March 2024
By My Solitary Hearth 