Hello and Welcome! Come on in. It is frigid out there and the wind is howling something fierce. Here, I’ll get you a large mug of super strong dark roast, a piping cuppa tea or some hot cocoa to warm you up. Better? Oh, where are we? Some of you may recognize the Edward Gory mug as being close to his house on Cape Cod.

So I drove down here Thursday evening. It rained all day Friday (Cape Cod was the only place on the East Coast to get rain, and it was pouring when I got up at 5:30 and was still raining when I checked at 8 PM in the evening (I could hear the wind after that, but didn’t check the rain situation). It was 25 degrees (F) cooler at 8 PM than it was at 5:30 AM – the temps just fell all day and then all night.

It was a cold week up in New Hampshire and will be a colder weekend. It has thrown my exercise routine off, and I feel it. I did walk the dogs a little, and played with them. I did some strength/weight exercise, but no cardio. Besides that, last week was a super busy week at work. I had massage on Wednesday. I read a little. I played music, though not as much as I would have liked.

Hello and Welcome! Come on in and I’ll get you a large mug of super strong dark roast, a piping cuppa tea or some hot cocoa. We’ll need a warm beverage after being out! It is a bit chilly, and we’ll see some very frigid weather later in the week. And what do you think of the snow? Not a huge amount, but enough to look like winter. Oh, were are we? Some of you may recognize the photo at the top as being from New Hampshire.

Wow, a couple of weeks of no coffee post! Were do I start? Not just that, I blogged very little in the last month – I had less hits in December, 2021 than any month since April of 2014, which was my sixth month of blogging! In fact, I received as many views on Wednesday as I did the entire month of December. That isn’t very fair, since most of the views were people looking at my owl photos – Wednesday almost doubled my previous highest single day hit count.

Hi all! Come on in and I’ll get you large, steaming mug of super strong dark roast, a piping cuppa tea, some hot cocoa or other warm beverage. It is not really frigid out, but with the very moist air, it feels cold! And you may notice a few flakes. Yeah, we are getting snow, and I’ve seen estimates for my town up to 9 in/23 cm. Not a huge amount, but enough! And it is strange since the week was so unseasonably warm. Oh, and where are we? Some of you may recognize that “getting ready for the snow” photo at the top as coming from New Hampshire. (forecast is for more than twice that amount of snow…)

It was an odd week! Work was super busy. I was in meetings pretty much all week, many security meetings, some going up as high as you get… Let’s just say that we are being ultra-aggressive in our response. Enough said. And then there are about four projects we are trying to finish before everyone goes away on holiday leave. And then just stuff in general, like a huge outage last night. Ugh.

Hello and Welcome! Come on in and I will get you a very strong dark roast, a cuppa tea or a cup of cocoa. It is wet and cold out there, so a hot beverage is a must. To expand on that, it is raining right now, though it is supposed to warm up today. That is fine. It will most likely melt the last of the snow. Were are we? Some of you may recognize that photo at the top as coming from New Hampshire.

I missed last week’s coffee share because I was traveling. I was in southern New Jersey, Stone Harbor to be exact, visiting my brother, who has a condo down there. My sister drove in from Ohio, so we had a little “reunion”. (My brother actually lives in the Philadelphia area and my sister drove to his house, letting him drive to the beach.) We spend a lot of time on the beach, exploring Cape May, watching movies, eating and just family things in general (i.e., this was a sibling “meeting”.) It was a nice get-together/getaway and made the 6 to 7 hour drive each direction worth it.

Hello and Welcome! Come on over and I will get you a nice, super strong dark roast, a cuppa tea or hot cocoa. It is a little chilly, but the sun feels great. Oh, were are we? Some of you may recognize the photo at the top as being from Cape Cod.

I drove down to the Cape on Sunday evening, two kittens in the car with me. We were greeted by the pups, who had been down since Thursday evening. The pups acted like it had been years…

I was able to do a few Cape Cod type of things this week, like long walks on the beach and such. Besides that, I ran, I walked (besides those couple of beach walks, mostly in the neighborhood, which means to the two landings), I did a little work and puttered around the yard, I exercised, and I ate. Hey, it was Thanksgiving week, what do you expect? Yes, we ate out twice and had a big, turkey-less dinner for T-day – turkey makes me very ill….

Hello and welcome! Come on over and I will get you a very strong dark roast, a cuppa tea or other beverage. It is sunny, though a bit cool, outside. I have been out walking and such pretty much all day, which is one reason why I am so late for this coffee share! Oh, where are we? Some of you may recognize the photo at the top as being from New Hampshire.

It was kind of an odd week. It was pretty warm on Thursday (up to about 56 F/ 19 C), but chilly the rest of the week. It felt like late November! Yesterday we even had some quick snow sowers blow through! OK, there was more rain and sleet in the mix, but it was nasty (I was outside both times they came through). Today is pretty cool, but at least it is sunny, and the sun feels great!

Work was busy…

I spent a lot of time working on music this week, so little time writing or blogging. I did a few posts, but.

I ran, walked, walked dogs (and cat ;) ), played with dogs (and cats!), exercised, read, etc. I had to make a few runs out and had massage. In other words, pretty much a typical week. Only it wasn’t… Nothing strange, just that I spent so much more time playing music and less doing things on the computer.

Anyway, I still have a busy afternoon planned :) Thanks for stopping by! If you have a coffee share, I will try to join, but this weekend is packed (as was last – sorry I didn’t visit more), so it is possible I may not be able to stop in…

Natalie the Explorer is now the host of the weekend coffee share and she is doing a wonderful job. Stop in at this week’s main share page or go to the InLinkz-Linkup to see all of the other shares!

Hello and Welcome! Come on over and I’ll get you a large mug of steaming, super strong dark roast, a piping cuppa tea or a thick hot cocoa. Notice that all of the beverages are warm? That is because it is cold! Actually, it is now above freezing, the sun is shining and there is no breeze, so it feels great out here. As long as you have that hot beverage, at least ;) Oh, where are we? Some of you may recognize the photo as being from New Hampshire.

This was an odd week. On the plus side, it was (for the most part) dry, which was great after such a wet October. I did try to spend a lot of time outside, from walking dogs (and cat) to running. Work was busy, but not as bad as it has been recently. I had a lot going on in other areas from Lions Club to massage to a doctor’s appointment. Sunday was my birthday :)

Hello and Welcome. Come on in and I’ll get you a nice mug of super strong dark roast, a cuppa tea or some hot cocoa. It is wet and cold outside, but what is new? Actually, we had some dry weather on Thursday and Friday, which was great. It was cool, but it is late October, so… Oh, where are we? Some of you may recognize the photo at the top as being from New Hampshire.

I guess the big thing this week was my return to blogging. I had four posts this week, five including this one. That is up from one or two a week over the last two or three months. More than that, I actually was able to read some blog posts. I still don’t feel like I have time to turn around, but…