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Maple Season

Posted on March 20, 2012 by newenglandkiwi

While Massachusetts isn’t as well-known a producer of maple syrup as Vermont, say, there is a fair bit of the stuff produced here. I don’t know why I missed maple season last year – the weather stayed cold enough long … Continue reading →

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New York: Part Two

Posted on March 5, 2012 by newenglandkiwi

The first time we came to New York, we didn’t have a lot of time to take in the general ambiance of the city, as it were, since we spent most of our 22 hours sleeping, talking to people in … Continue reading →

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Te Ao Nui

Posted on January 15, 2012 by newenglandkiwi

The non-graduate-student members of the department are gradually starting to drift back in from their winter holidays (the university shuts down for a month, but most grad students take about a week off, if that) to a slightly-more-snowy-but-not-really Massachusetts. Our … Continue reading →

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Reverse Psychology And Weather Systems

Posted on January 9, 2012 by newenglandkiwi

As far as I can tell from the Stuff and NZ Herald websites, it’s been so wet in New Zealand that you should all be thinking of ark-building. Sounds like business as usual for a New Zealand summer, then. Massachusetts, … Continue reading →

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Recovery

Posted on November 7, 2011 by newenglandkiwi

We got power back last Tuesday evening, just as I was eating a cold dinner by candlelight (the combination of the noises I made when the power returned and the sudden appearance of light everywhere sent the cat under the … Continue reading →

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Powerless

Posted on November 1, 2011 by newenglandkiwi

Last winter was a record-setter for the northeastern United States – winter snowfall records were broken just about everywhere – so when the forecast indicated we’d be getting six to ten inches of snow on Saturday evening, even though it … Continue reading →

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Fall

Posted on October 3, 2011 by newenglandkiwi

It’s officially fall autumn dammit autumn here in New England, now the autumn equinox has been and gone. I was interested to discover the other day that I am not the only one who thinks the American season-marking system is a … Continue reading →

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After The Storm

Posted on September 5, 2011 by newenglandkiwi

Irene turned out to be something of a bust for large parts of the Pioneer Valley, and especially for us – we woke up last Sunday morning to heavy rain and occasionally gusty wind, but that was it. By the … Continue reading →

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Irene

Posted on August 26, 2011 by newenglandkiwi

I feel like I talk about the weather a lot on this blog, but then again, the weather in Western Massachusetts has been doing some pretty strange things this year. You may recall that we’ve had record snowstorms, tornadoes, a … Continue reading →

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Not In Kansas

Posted on June 2, 2011 by newenglandkiwi

It’s been summer-hot and dry here this last week, the sort of weather that never lasted for more than two or three days at a time back home, and it was the same yesterday morning, twenty degrees by the time … Continue reading →

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