Dear National Weather Service: This letter concerns the weather forecast product that you issued for Ann Arbor, Michigan, on February 2, 2022.
Culture
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Revenge of the wrong-side mailbox
There are two classes of rural homes: those with a mailbox on the same side of the road, and those with a mailbox on the other. As if in passive resistance to suburban sprawl, even a long-demolished farmhouse can haunt its unwanted descendants by "locking in" the side on which mail delivery occurs.
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Potatoes
“Potatoes are not a vegetable,” my friend declared, when I listed the varieties of produce she could harvest from my vegetable garden. “I will take tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, and onions, but not potatoes.” I could have responded that the first three, being fruits, are not vegetables either.
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Arduous task of pioneer was grubbing stumps
Some one has asked what the pioneer did, how he occupied his time. Grubbing stumps was one of his tasks.
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So, Vincent Van Gogh walks into a bar…
A properly peopled bar feeds the imagination ...
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The practically unobtainable chocolate Nobel medal
There are only a few things left that you can't buy on the Internet. Currently, the chocolate Nobel medal is one of them. ...
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Who is Hilda M?
An unknown Swiss painter, and a discarded painting. Who is Hilda M?
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Should everyone keep a journal?
When the first blogs came about, we were told that blogs are simply journals, and that everyone should keep a journal. ...
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The frost is on the pumpkin
Thoughts about a rural pumpkin patch in the Michigan countryside, early one cold October morning.
