At the time of the American Revolution approximately 90% of New England was open land while today that number is somewhere south of 15%. Even when I was growing up north of Boston in the 1950s the street I lived on was surrounded by fields and woods which were all gone by the time I […]
The Winter Solstice occurs tomorrow around 6:00 pm and today was marked by our first day of full sunlight here North of the Mountains in about two weeks although it was -1 this morning. We are celebrating the change of the seasons with a feast featuring smoked pork butt which went on the Weber at […]
We are fast approaching the shortest day of the year here in Northern New Hampshire. Day length will reach 8 hours and 50 minutes starting tomorrow and will stay there for a few days before we start gaining day light. Six months from now we’ll have days that are 15 1/2 hours long. In addition […]
There have been times in the last 30 + years when we have had bare ground until Christmas and beyond. There have also been years when the snows have come in November and stayed. This is one of those years. We got back down to bare ground once but it was -15 here yesterday and […]