2022 Weather Data
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2022 Weather Data

The total precipitation for 2022 here was 39.5 inches for the year. The average for where we live is 31.0 inches, so we were higher than the average again this year. The table below shows the temperatures and precipitation by month.
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COVID Is Still With Us
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COVID Is Still With Us

Over two years from my last post about COVID and almost three years since the lockdown, COVID is responsible for 1.1 million deaths.
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2021 Weather Data
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2021 Weather Data

This past year felt wetter to both Rose and me, and indeed it was. We also had the hottest couple of daytime highs since moving to the northwest,
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Felling Six Trees
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Felling Six Trees

In addition to the hemlock tree, there were five alder trees and one maple. The alders grow here like weeds, and as they age, they weaken and break off at the top. The one had already broken and dropped a large piece on my workshop, damaging the roof and ruining the gutter. It had to come done.
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What Bird Is That?
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What Bird Is That?

I am not a bird watcher, but I am interested in what is living and making its home in and around where we live. We routinely see bald eagles (they have a unique call), eagles, and osprey flying overhead.
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I Received My Second Vaccine Shot
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I Received My Second Vaccine Shot

After this second shot, however, I did experience some side effects for a day and a half. I received the shot at 1:30 pm on Wednesday and I was fine that evening as well as the next morning, until about 10:00 am. At that time I was having body aches and was cold.
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COVID Update
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COVID Update

To get a sense of how fast the deaths have increased, when I wrote my first post on March 31st there were much less than 100,000 deaths. In September, only six months later the death count was over 200,000. And now, in March 2021 another six months later that death total is over 520,000.
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2020 Weather Data
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2020 Weather Data

Welcome to my annual weather data post. This year (2020), I installed a new weather station, the WS-2000 from Ambient Weather, in mid January due to the old one dropping offline too often. This new one has done well all this year and stays online recording data much better than the old one. The tota
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