Arbitrary date

Air temperature 36 F, wind near calm, cloudy. Outside of the solstices and equinoxes, few dates on the modern calendar have a reliable connection to the natural world. Constantine declared this date in 336 CE, without any scriptural basis. Celebrate it in whatever fashion your heritage has chosen, an ye harm none.

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For a few people who know . . .

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Observing odd stuff

A number of trees are dripping on the sidewalks and roads, broken twigs leaking. The weird weather has stirred up sap flow. If we have a sudden dive to subzero temperatures, some of those trees may split.