Maria Blogs

I thought the roof would be blown off last night, what with the wind howling and barreling down the neighborhood. But we’re still lucky, our part of the cape came out relatively unscathed.
Long Island [New York] seems to have had it worse than we did. And the southern plains caught the brunt of it, flood, [...]

No, not the religious kind you have to attend every Sunday after church service, but the kind that people religiously go to to pick up some of the best ice cream and sundaes in Massachusetts, if not the continental US.
I discovered the Sundae School while living in Dennisport, MA. The beach is a block away [...]

Clocks were adjusted over the weekend, three weeks earlier than usual, as we try to maximize daylight now that spring has arrived. Daylight savings time usually happens around the first week of April, and it has been so for the past 20 years.
Ahh spring … cool, wet, and frankly, miserable … unless it’s almost Summer [...]

If only my gums aren’t swollen and I don’t have to go to the pharmacist to pick up my antibiotic. Gaaah. I complain too much. I wonder what Mr. chipmunk is up to.

Not there (that’s his “fort”)

Not there either ((that’s where he usually forage for more food)
Isn’t it strange, just when it snows, the temperature [...]

Man, when I thought I would never see snow sticking on the ground this year (Spring IS just around the corner), I woke up to a white panorama this morning. The ground is covered in two inches of snow, tree branches are well-covered … no wonder Mr. chipmunk was busy patrolling his stash under the [...]