Mar 17, 2023
What I have been able to confirm is that my Irish Heffernan great-great grandfather was a Civil War general with the 55th Illinois Regiment, fought at Shiloh (Corinth, Mississippi). After the war ende...
Feb 28, 2023
Look at a calendar and picture a February 29th tomorrow. We have all of today (the 28th) to get ready for the 29th, but oops! At midnight it will be March 1st, and we have to wait a whole year for Mar...
Feb 18, 2023
Several spells of sub-zero weather have kept our river mostly frozen over. It is totally silent this time of year, aside from occasional thuds that are the ice cracking. Yes, it looks like a highway.T...
Jan 16, 2023
'The Holidays' which used to mean Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's Eve to me are behind us, and we are in that time that I think of as 'slogging through winter' until Good Friday or Memorial Da...
Nov 26, 2022
Because we have what seems like more than our share of natural disasters around here, our local residents spend a lot of time tracking things online. When we hear an airplane overhead, we can look at ...
Oct 2, 2022
Teal called me tonight to ask that I let you all know they are okay - she said their island is cut off, and they were evacuated by boat. That's all she said - the line went dead. This NOAA website - H...
Sept 19, 2022
Our fall is late this year. Usually we have at least a light frost early in September, sometimes a killing frost by now, and once in a great while snow. This year we're still having days in the low 80...
July 25, 2022
It has been hot weather, but we've been lucky to get some monsoonal rains. Painters are here today, applying stain to the outside of our house and we had to move the hummingbird feeders out of the way...
May 22, 2022
We go from a daytime high of 70 degrees to inches of snow the next day with an overnight low of 20. The forecast said it was going to be 11 degrees, but I don't think it got that low.This is the reaso...
May 6, 2022
Remember the little old lady in Loveland CO who was assaulted by cops in Loveland Colorado? They broke her arm, dislocated her shoulder, and for hours didn't seek medical attention for her, didn't men...
Apr 2, 2022
Many happy returns....
Mar 26, 2022
And many happy returns!!!...
Mar 14, 2022
February 15th a speeding teenager plowed into the back of my truck right outside my gate. My truck:The damage doesn't look too bad, but she was going 60 mph, and had started to turn into oncoming traf...
Feb 23, 2022
CNN ran a story about a scientific study performed at the University of California San Diego, published in the Journal of the American Heart Association, that measured the physical activity of over 5,...
Feb 20, 2022
The Big Thompson River, upstream from my bridge.All of a sudden more of the month is behind us than ahead, and we're heading into the time to start seeds indoors, getting ready for summer. This has be...
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