Category Archives: Outdoors

Slacking on Blogging

7/15/2009 – 4:00 pm

I’ve been a bad blogger lately. It probably correlates to the fact that I can either blog or use my scant free time doing things that actually matter. In a bulleted list, here’s what I’ve been up to:
– Parenting! Grey turned 10 weeks on Monday and things have definitely gotten better. He cries less [...]

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Mulched in the Nick of Time

3/28/2009 – 5:32 pm

Right, so nesting continues apace. This weekend’s agenda? Mulching.
In the summer we have a lovely landscaped backyard. In the fall, we have to cut it down. In the spring, we need to lay down mulch. Lots and lots of mulch.
This year I decided to keep the final count on this space: we bought 45 and [...]

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A Quick Word Before My Trip…

7/24/2008 – 4:52 pm

Right, so the brothers and I are heading off into the woods this weekend to rip off another 30 miles of Wisconsin’s Ice Age Trail and before we go, I would like to say:

The last time we attempted a section of the trail, we actually ended up doing 14 miles in a single day rather [...]

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Things I’m Giving Up On

4/14/2008 – 8:55 am

The Weather

They’re selling t-shirts around town for those of us who survived 100+ inches of snow this winter, a winter which has managed to flatten the affect of the entire city. And it’s been a lousy spring thus far. When it’s warm (and by warm I mean in the mid-40s) it has rained like crazy [...]

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It’s Not the Temperature, It’s the Wind

4/4/2008 – 5:51 pm

I’m glad I’m in Madison today and not Milwaukee.

That, my friends, is one very slow and very cold wind.

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I Am Not Alone

3/22/2008 – 9:11 pm

On the heels of my post about La Concha’s glorious torta cubana comes a Wisconsin State Journal article on…La Concha’s glorious torta cubana.
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Mother Nature is a hoor. Madison got another 8-10 inches of snow yesterday. Previous record for snowfall? 76.1 inches in 1978-79. This year we’ve had 102. Sick of winter? Yes, thanks. [...]

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Winter Whining in Perspective

2/18/2008 – 12:05 pm

Lest ye think I exaggerate or have little recourse for complaint regarding the snowfall this winter, I hope these two pictures suggest that I have good reason.

The above is the car in the driveway. Note that the shovel to the right is about four feet tall. That would make that snow bank pushed against [...]

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Winter is a Drag (or a Pull)

2/18/2008 – 9:45 am

Madison broke the old snowfall record last week. Anybody notice that it’s only mid-February? I had some choice blue language for the weather this Sunday when we got about three inches of slush atop a layer of the snow that iced over on Thursday. Peachy! Oh, and our “flurries” this morning [...]

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Snow Day?

2/6/2008 – 1:15 pm

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Day classes have been (rightly) canceled for UWM; I expect evening classes (those that start after 3:00) to follow suit. My fiction workshop starts at 3:30 and I’m not looking forward to the drive in to town should it go forward. There’s still plenty of snow on the ground and it’s still coming [...]

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Winter Go Away

2/5/2008 – 9:30 am

Erm…can winter go away already?
I don’t mind snow and I don’t mind shoveling but this year has been a bit much. What makes things worse is that the whole “30mph wind and blowing snow” and “sleeting rain/raining sleet that freezes” kind of weather seems to be happening on Tuesdays and Thursdays, the days I drive [...]

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