This winter has been brutal with its cold, ice and snow. While each winter has its own personality, this one has been particularly brisk.  W...

 

We've had bad weather now for a while. First, we had an ice storm, followed by two snows. It makes getting in and out rather sketchy. Ho...

 

Yesterday at the grocery store, a somewhat familiar sight from the past greeted me: Yes, the toilet paper was mostly gone. I attributed this...

  We have a forest fire directly across from us, in Stone Coal Gap and/or Broad Run. We saw it when we got up this morning, and I called my ...

  We ended up with about 4 inches of snow. The forecast was for much less, but that's ok. Unfortunately, the winds are supposed to howl ...

We had ice on Saturday, until the afternoon, when it mostly melted. We had a 3/4 inch of rain. We are still in a drought situation, so the r...

Rain and possibly freezing rain, meaning ice, are in the forecast for tomorrow.  Not my favorite kind of weather. One year, some time ago, w...

This was not a pretty snow. A pretty snow has lovely large flakes that dress the trees in dainty white outfits, and then it quickly melts an...

With the forecast calling for "plowable snow," my husband in particular has begun his snow preparations. I went to the grocery sto...

It came from the East, with wild howls and thunder a snow like a blizzard along the Blue Ridge Mountain row A squall with malice as trees fe...

It rained some more! The fields are a lovely green now. The cattle are looking quite content and everything has lost the coating of dust and...