Storm Warnings

Posted on January 2, 2010 by Mark Zeiger

Yesterday the New Year came in with a 50-knot storm from the north. The “wind drought” is now in reverse—we’re working off the batteries without wind charging, as we don’t want to run our generator on those wind speeds. Continue reading →

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Planning the Coming Year – A New Year’s Day Project

Posted on January 1, 2010 by Mark Zeiger

Today, New Year’s Day, I indulge in a very pleasant activity: updating my Franklin Planner.

This task occurs the first day of every month throughout the year. On the morning of each first day, I remove the pages for the month before the one just past from my planner and place them in a storage binder. At the same time, I place next month’s pages in the binder.

The difference today is that I commonly spend some time on the first day of the year to update the whole planner. Continue reading →

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