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January 2015

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Get your curl on

On a cold and frosty Monday night in January, you can find a hearty clan of eight or so people out on the Nederland ice rink sliding a round stone towards a target etched into the ice.  Yes, the Nederland curling club is engaged in the yet another robust bout of…

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East Coast Weather Bias?

This is a re-post of an earlier blog entry from a couple of months ago, but given the latest round of snowstorm hysteria surrounding the storm that wasn’t on the east coast from the last two days, it seems strangely appropriate.  I love the names people have come up with…

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Chain up!

When I think of chaining up during winter, I think of chains for the tires of your car or truck.  When I lived in Lake Tahoe, there were many times during winter snow storms, when the local California Transportation agency that  required all 2-wheel drive vehicles to chain up to…

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Home security in the mountains

We got a voice mail yesterday from a sales rep for a home security system.  They proposed an offer to come to our house and present proposal to put in a security system.  I chuckled to myself, and thought, we surely don’t need that!  For more than a few reasons,…

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