Lets Jump Together

I know it is a couple days early, but I want to send holiday greetings to all my readers and friends.
The house is filled with the scent of warm pumpkin pie and homemade chocolate fudge.
The ham will go in the oven tomorrow for a big dinner on Christmas Eve to share with the family.
I wish [...]

Those Holiday Songs

It happens every year
The need to hear those tunes.
Not in the bright and warm
Sunny month of June.
Nor is it in October

When the leaves begin to fall.
Not even when the little feet
Of ghosts and goblins call.
Perhaps it is the snow
Or the shortness of the days.
The joy that fills the heart
When Christmas music plays.
The voices [...]

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On the way into town yesterday we had the radio on the NPR station.
It was just in time for their Science Friday program.
They were having a segment on how to grow and create snowflakes from a plastic bottle and dry ice.
Since it is the radio, one can only imagine what they look like as they [...]

Last winter season I wrote about a Himalayan Salt Crystal lamp that I had picked up.
I used it all season, and I found it really helped with the static electricity in the air.
It is also used to neutralize the ions in the air to make it more refreshing and the orange glow from it was [...]

One more post about ice, and then I will give it a break.
I don’t usually insert video into my blog - mainly because I have no idea how to do it.
Hopefully this one will come through.
It is a video from the Extreme Ice program on PBS.
What you are viewing is a compilation of slides over [...]

Even though the calendar says that winter doesn’t arrive for another 10 days, we are well entrenched in it here in New England.
Even the biting cold that doesn’t usually come until January has settled in.
It turned the foot of snow we received Wednesday into hardpack that is very unmovable.
And the driveway - it is quite [...]

I was most intrigued when I first saw this beautiful hotel on TV this past winter.
The whole building and everything in it is completely made of ice - the tables, chairs, beds, sculptures, walls, and even the chandeliers.
The one pictured above was built in Sweden, and they started building it in mid November.
By the [...]