Monday, May 21, 2012
The potential for a run at 90 degrees sometime during the Memorial Day Weekend is real...but we'll first have to deal with a really slow moving coastal trough over the coming week.
Last week's article talked about the potential for a coastal low to develop and wreak havoc on our weather this week. The potential doth yield reality in this case as a coastal trough is aligned off of the Carolina coast and will slowly push northward into our area for the start of the new week. The good news? It won't rain all of the time. The bad news? It might take until Memorial Day Weekend for it to clear out of here. This trough's slow movement isn't unusual for May systems that develop and like to linger off of the Atlantic coastline. As the Bermuda High and the Southeastern US "heat high" develop, frontal boundaries tend to stall out along the East Coast, sometimes hanging out for a period of days before they finally get pushed …
Sunday, May 20, 2012
Meet the "Ethel" to our Lucy, Michele Buono.
I saw this on Facebook: A friend is someone who’ll raise bail money to get you out of jail. A best friend will be sitting next to you in the cell. From my experience, men can go for years without venturing from their homes for anything other than beer or a football game. If it can be brought into their homes via post, dropped from a helicopter or delivered on horseback, they’ll live happily in their caves. Women, on the other hand, need outside contact. More than that, we crave friends. But nothing in this world beats a best friend. A best friend knows you for all your charms and warts and pretends you have more charm than warts. I’ve been fortunate to have many friends. I’ve also been blessed to have a best friend. In fact, people call my…
Saturday, May 19, 2012
Bright, low maintenance annual plants will give your garden a color boost from summer until frost. Annuals are the icing on your garden "cake."
Each year I resolve to plant fewer annuals and save time—and then something happens. The weather warms up and I crave color. But I like to plant annuals I can plant and fuggedabout. Perennials add fabulous texture, color and variety to the garden, but they bloom for a short period each year. A backbone of trees, shrubs and perennials comprise the best-planned gardens, with some colorful annuals added for punctuation. Annuals brighten up a bare patch of ground. Want an instant focal point? Pot up some annuals in interesting pots and you're done. Group containers together for your own unique design and color variations. For a low-maintenance approach, re-use self-watering containers year after year. You'll find them at garden centers and …
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Our Montco Mommy talks about her son's recent gift – a self-written tome dedicated to her skills as a mom.
What do your children think of you? I don’t often think of what kind of “legacy” I’m leaving, but one of the most important things I know I leave behind in this world someday when I’m gone is what kind of people my children are. While I may not dwell on it daily, it is likely a motivating factor for much of the way I parent. What life skills do they need to have forever? What ways can I best benefit them? When I’m long gone, what will they remember me for? At ages 4 and 6, that is sometimes hard to gauge, but I have a fairly vocal and thoughtful son so I know what he thinks most of the time as he thinks it. I’m not sure my daughter is old enough to think of it at all, but on Mother’s Day I was given a great description of exactly what my …
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
The role-playing adventure for Xbox 360 and PS3 was inspired by author George R. R. Martin's bestselling "A Song of Ice and Fire" fantasy series.
George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire fantasy series is one of the hottest media properties out there. With five books (plus a sixth being written and a seventh planned) and the white hot Emmy-winning HBO adaptation Game of Thrones in its second season, its popularity shows little sign of waning. With a superb setting, great characters, and lots of fantasy tropes to borrow from, adapting Martin's worlds and unique storytelling style to a role-playing video game seems like a no-brainer. Teaming with both Japanese game publisher Atlus and Martin himself to do so makes that decision even smarter. Atlus brings a wealth of RPG experience to the table; Martin ensures that the game retains the feel of his books and makes sure everything …
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Monday, May 14, 2012
The weather week will start damp, possibly end damp, but feature a very nice stretch in between.
May is one of those months that can bring us summery heat, cool mornings, and sometimes frontal boundaries that like to hang out over the region as they lose their punch and run into the developing summertime Bermuda high in the Atlantic. We've had a few "slow moving fronts" through the region the past three weeks and this week promises yet another front and another slow track through the region between Monday and Wednesday. It won't rain at all times on Monday or Tuesday but when it does, rain could be potentially heavy and some spots could pick up a couple of inches of rain in the next couple of days. The best chances for heavier rain will reside in the Monday night and Tuesday morning timeframe before the main rain axis shifts into New …
Sunday, May 13, 2012
Lucy shares her journey with breast cancer.
“I’ll love you forever, I’ll like you for always, As long as I’m living, my baby you’ll be.” Robert Munsch Mother’s Day is today, and I’d like to say a very sincere “Happy Mother’s Day” to all the moms out there. Our job is sometimes tough, yet rewarding. And as Munsch pointed out in his much loved book, “Love You Forever,” no matter how big they get, they’re always our babies. But sometimes, Mother’s Day isn’t about us entirely, it’s about the children that we’ve raised. For me, this Mother’s Day is a tribute to my children Aubrie, Elyse and Dakota and the three years that they’ve taken care of me. You see, in October of 2009, I was diagnosed with breast cancer. My doctor, Dr. Roderick Quiros, gave me the news. I took to calling it “When …
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
This Montco Mommy took a staycation with her hunny to celebrate their fifth wedding anniversary.
It has been half a decade. It doesn’t sound long, but it’s a wide variety of peaks and valleys. This past week, I celebrated my fifth wedding anniversary with my husband. When you have two young children, getting a date in at all is pretty tough. We aspire to get out at least every other week, but that ends up to be more like once a month, at best. Between nailing down a babysitter, timing our work schedules and the cost of going out, we seldom take the time to do it. But, relationships take a lot of work. We try to remember, though it isn’t always easy, that time together can be the best way to “work” on it. Thankfully we have my college-aged sister in town for a few more days, so we took advantage of a free Aunt to get away for an entire…
Monday, May 7, 2012
Another week, another slow moving front, and a chance for more needed rains ahead!
Last week's forecast blew up in many a forecaster's (including my own) face as a slow moving warm front moved slower than antcipated, resulting in a couple of days of clouds and drear during the middle of the week. The warm front had finally cleared but then after thunderstorms along a cool front slid south through the region on Friday night another round of clouds from the Atlantic took over. Frontal boundaries slow as they try to slip south of our latitude at this time of the year, thanks to the developing subtropical high pressure ridge of the Southeast. That ridge prevents colder air from sinking too far south and as the influence of colder airmasses weakens with each passing day due to longer days, the pattern can stagnate many times …
Sunday, May 6, 2012
Lucy scours the web and finds some interesting Mother's Day gifts.
Like all things in life, change is inevitable, no matter how much we resist. Mother’s Day is no different. When the kids were little, I got the cutest gifts. Macaroni pictures on paper plates, homemade cards, or a gift certificate book that promised things like “I’ll clean my room,” or “good for 10 hugs.” All were produced with huge smiles and anxious faces. They watched my face to be sure I loved it; boy, did I. Now that they’re older, I think I’d be a little concerned if they presented me with a necklace made of buttons. Not totally surprised, but a little nervous about what type of human I’d unleashed on an unsuspecting world. After hearing that according to the National Retail Federation, Americans spend just shy of $19 billion (yes…
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12:34 pm on Monday, May 21, 2012
LOL @ Michele! That story was too funny! I'm blessed to have more than one best friend like that.... finishing each other sentences, going on road trips on a whim, picking the direction out of a hat! That was in the days before smart phones, Garmins, anything like that... we actually used that strange looking piece of paper with lines and curves on it... I think it's called a map. And did we ever… more ›