Susan's Pendulum

Winter's coming.  (Shhhh.  Did I really say that?  Right out loud?  [shudder]  I should have my mouth washed out with soap.) Leaves ...

Now, THIS is the way to do schoolwork!  (Although her chair was in the shade, mine was in the sunshine.) But, ... but, ... but ... ho...

Driving home from a visit to Mom, we watched the storms passing behind us or to the south of us. Certainly an interesting weather lesson! ...

That was last weekend.  This weekend we're back to closed windows, jackets outdoors, and the furnace turned on. My friend Jenny...

Snow-mixed-with-rain every day this week.  But we've comforted ourselves with "At least it's not sticking."  And this mo...

So I think this was the first Easter Vigil ever where I sang the Song of the Three Young Men (including the lines "You frost and cold, ...

On those days before Christmas when it was raining, how often did I thankfully say, "At least we don't have to shovel it"? W...

I guess we'll be buying them this year instead of eating delectable homegrown ones.   After that warm spell in early March, the weathe...

The last week I've been freezing. It had been especially warm, so why the chills? I'm suspicious that the warmth at work might be ...

In past years, reading history to the kids, I remember my shock at the reaction of people when toilets were invented. "What? You'...

Short days. Long nights. If there are too many dark, cloudy days in a row, a person with Seasonal Affective Disorder will become sad. A few...

A couple of weeks ago, Maggie couldn't exercise. It was too hot, you see. It was, oh, maybe 80° out. So today we talk about whether sh...

It's that season of the year when I can't ever find a clean glass. We're not often using plates right now. Lunch might be a pie...

Just when you could use a run of sunny days to help a newborn overcome her slight [and perfectly normal] jaundice, the forecast has days an...

No getting out the front door this morning. It wouldn't budge. We raised the garage door, made a narrow path, and started moving snow....

Three dig-outs and counting. This stuff is WAY lighter and easier to shovel than the Snow of Good Friday '08 . (That was overwhelming: ...

Drank three-and-a-half quarts of iced tea on Monday. Mmmmm. Maggie went to Leah's to swim. Monday was the hottest it's been since...

Give me spring, lots of spring, under sunny skies above -- don't fence me in. Let me be in the wide open spaces that I love [in summery ...

Some say that this frigid weather is proof of global warming. Others say this frigid weather is just part of climate patterns that fluctuat...

Ten days straight without sun. (Well, there were a couple of minutes on Sunday morning during church when a beam peeked through the stained...