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2025-01-05 14:53

Posted on 2025-01-05
by Philip Brewer

Roxie and Ashley romping in the snow, at the dog park. 🐕

A brown dog and a black dog romping in the snow
Posted in News, Photography | Tagged Ashley, dog, Photography, snow

2024-01-23 18:55

Posted on 2024-01-23
by Philip Brewer

Street lights on the ice glaze left by freezing rain.

Street lights shine on snow and ice, with a swing set in the foreground.
Posted in Local, News, Photography | Tagged freezing rain, ice, Photography, snow, street lights, winfield village, winter

2024-01-16 09:26

Posted on 2024-01-16
by Philip Brewer

“Now that the Tesla cybertruck is finally out in the wild, it’s being forced to contend with a hazard no one could have foreseen: Snow.”

Source: Tesla Cybertrucks Keep Getting Stuck In Snow

And by “no one,” I assume they mean “anyone who is not a moron.”

Posted on 2024-01-16
by Philip Brewer
in News | Tagged allegedly funny, cars, snow

2024-01-06 09:01

Posted on 2024-01-06
by Philip Brewer

After yesterday’s brightly colored dawn, a dramatic change: Today’s rather somber snow on the sycamore tree.

Courtyard lamp post in front of the snow-covered branches and twigs of a sycamore tree.
Posted in Local, News, Photography | Tagged Photography, snow, sycamore, winfield village

2022-12-28 17:52

Posted on 2022-12-28
by Philip Brewer

Dunno whether the self-storage place next door plows their own parking lot or hires it done, but either way I bet they’re not thrilled.

Posted in Local, News, Photography | Tagged Photography, snow, snow removal, snow shoveling

2022-02-05 15:05

Posted on 2022-02-05
by Philip Brewer

I’m not sure who ought to clear the sidewalk on Route 45 near Curtis, but somebody should. I’m fit enough to clamber over three-foot snow walls blocking crosswalks, but hundreds of my neighbors are not. @Applebees @cvspharmacy @SchnuckMarkets

Posted in Local, News, Photography, Policy | Tagged Applebee's, CVS, Photography, public policy, Savoy, Schnuck's, snow, snow removal, snow shoveling, walking

2022-02-05 14:42

Posted on 2022-02-05
by Philip Brewer

I’m not sure who ought to clear the sidewalk on Curtis Road next to the U of I Solar Farm, but somebody should. I’m fit enough to trudge through the 12-inch snow, but hundreds of my neighbors are not. @UofIllinois

Posted in News, Photography, Policy | Tagged Photography, public policy, Savoy, sidewalk clearing, sidewalks, snow, snow removal, snow shoveling, solar farm, walking, winfield village

2022-02-02 13:58

Posted on 2022-02-02
by Philip Brewer

I have rewarded myself for all my hard work with a mug of hot cocoa. (I have shoveled the walk, put down salt, taken out a bag of trash, dropped the outgoing mail in the mail slot, and checked for today’s mail (which had not yet arrived).)

Posted on 2022-02-02
by Philip Brewer
in News, Photography | Tagged doing hard things, hot cocoa, post office, snow, snow shoveling, work

2021-01-06 06:47

Posted on 2021-01-06
by Philip Brewer

Imminent sudden stratospheric warming to occur, bringing increased risk of snow over coming weeks

today’s SSW is potentially the most dangerous kind, where the polar vortex splits into two smaller ‘child’ vortices.”

I’ll omit the otherwise irresistibly tempting joke about “child vortices.”

Posted on 2021-01-06
by Philip Brewer
in News | Tagged cold, polar vortex, snow, weather, winter

2021-01-03 14:21

Posted on 2021-01-03
by Philip Brewer

Daily gratitude: Today I’m grateful that the snow on the sidewalk melted before I had to shovel it.

Posted in News, Photography | Tagged gratitude, Photography, snow, snow shoveling

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I write science fiction and fantasy stories.

I speak Esperanto, and use it to communicate internationally. Esperantistoj, legu mian esperantan hejmpaĝon.

For a while I taught Taiji.

For eleven years I was a senior writer at Wise Bread, writing about personal finance and frugality.

Before that I spent a quarter-century as a software engineer.

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