Before :: on:: after:: Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving Wednesday preparation day snow started at 11AM.  As I plowed with the tractor blade at 7PM I ended up wet from the mixed precipitation.  In that eight hours of snowfall I was pushing five inches of heavy snow.  The final near nine inches.

Look lower right - weather

From this BLOG weeklyabcxyz.blogspot.com,   I point to my weekly weather blog.

If you look at stormpages.com/wxmaine  you will see a one week maximum and minimum temperature image and three other display options.  The options include recent weeks, a two month display and a calendar year format.

Stormpages seems to say that that site is weather related, it is not. The stormpages.com hosting site was a free site back in 2007.  It has no direct connection with my posting weekly Westbrook, Maine temperatures.

To build the weekly image, I have an EXCELL spreadsheet for each calendar year. I extract each weekly image and the same data in text column form every week.  As a graph I let EXCELL plot the  nine day running mean of both the maximum and minimum temperatures.  A running mean blends the previous four, current day and next four daily temperatures.  I enjoy observing this graph as it shows the summer nine day running mean flirt with 80F and the winter minimum do the same near zero fahrenheit.

Veterans Day - 111114

I'm frustrated when offspring or extended offspring whine.  Oh I want this, oh I want that.

BUT (am I any different?)

I would whine at a boss about no holiday pay, no vacation pay.  Many many Veteran's Day I would work and whine.  Quiet whining but still whining.  I wrote at least one obscure email hinting at finally taking a Veteran's Day off but actually getting holiday pay.

Well, today is Veteran's Day, I am retired but I still scheduled myself to work (teach). Two in my new community for over two hours.  One has a road test in a week. 

To fellow Veterans who paid a price many fold above anything I did, I say, We all say "...........!!"

And by the way, as I write various weekly blogs I enjoy special number sequences. Today 111114.

TO DO LIST

Summer is here and then winter.  Too quick

Summer projects are now impossible, therefore time to move on.

Winter 2014-2015

 - - Install snowplow blade on the tractor.
 - - Test the snow blower engine.
 - - Store garden hose, ladder and gifted mini pool above the garage.
 - - Organize the kindling toward the front of the shed with the mower
 deck and push mower in the rear.
 - - Gather and check the roof rake, shovels and cold weather clothing.
 - - Pray for a plan as each storm approaches, strikes and departs.