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Ice Cream Eating Woodchuck

You may understandably have some disappointment with Punxsutawney Phil’s forecasting ability this year (over 81% of FW poll respondents said he was criminally liable for bad forecasting). Well, groundhogs and woodchucks are the same animal (Marmota monax), and you might want to see how contrite this groundhog/woodchuck is about his erroneous prediction from February. He’s…

Daily Bread for 3.30.13

Good morning. Saturday brings a chance of showers and a high of fifty-three. We’ll have 12h 37m of sunlight, 13h 35m of daylight, and tomorrow have three minutes more. On this day in 1981, “President Reagan was shot and seriously injured outside a Washington, D.C., hotel by John W. Hinckley Jr. Also wounded were White…

Daily Bread for 3.29.13

Good morning. Good Friday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of forty-nine. Dogs are supposed to be man’s best friend, but sometimes a dog is dog’s best friend: On this day in 1929, a desk phone: …President Herbert Hoover has a phone installed at his desk in the Oval Office of the White…

Daily Bread for 3.27.13

Good morning. The middle of our week will be mostly cloudy but with a high of forty, and northwest winds 5 to 10 MPH. Downtown Whitewater’s board meets this morning at 8 AM. Dogs are said to be man’s best friend, but they’re dog’s best friend sometimes, too: On this day in 1912, Japanese cherry…

Daily Bread for 3.23.13

Good morning. Saturday will be mostly sunny with a high of thirty-five. There will be 12h 17m of sunlight, 13h 13m of daylight, and tomorrow will offer three minutes more. From the east coast, video of a presumed meteor streaking across the sky: On this day in 1839, O.K. makes an appearance in print (it…

Daily Bread for 3.20.12

Good morning. Spring arrives in Whitewater, on a day with chance of snow showers and a high of nineteen. (Monday, March 18th is the most recent day to have a snowfall accumulation of at least an inch.) Whitewater’s Tech Park Board meets today at 8 AM. CNN asks if this is the best golf shot…

Daily Bread for 3.17.13

Good morning. Sunday in Whitewater: mostly sunny, a high of thirty-one, with 12 hours of sunlight, and 12h 56m of daylight. From the deepest place in my heart, loving advice: avoid the Greyhound bus from Atlantic City to New York. On this day in 1776, the British retreat from Boston: …British forces are forced to…

Daily Bread for 3.16.13

Good morning. It’s a ‘wintry mix’ for Whitewater before 1 PM, and a few flurries thereafter. Weather reporting has descended into base scare tactics and attention-grabbing alerts, all designed to induce fretting over even ordinary conditions, and through fretting to encourage repeat viewers for the Weather Channel or local news. One would think that the…