Weather Reporting: January 1

There’s a reason small talk often centers around the weather: Everyone has it and everyone knows something about it. That means you have no excuses for not participating in this month’s bloggy theme, which is weather.

In much of the world, January is a month of weather extremes, and I think it’d be fun to hear a little about yours. If you live where it’s temperate year round, I like to hear about that, too. Post something weather related during the month of January and send me the link and I’ll link to your post in a collection of weather related posts.

I can think of several possibilities for weather reporting.

• Post your highs and lows for the day.
• Post a photo that shows your weather.
• Describe your weather.
• Get scientific and explain a weather phenomen.

The sky’s the limit. If it has anything to do with weather, I’ll link to it, as long as you send me the link.

And that’s where this year’s themed months will differ from the previous ones. You must send me the link. In the past I spent way too much time searching for a post I remembered reading but lost track of, and I’m not going to do that this time around. Even if you are my very best bloggy friend in the whole wide world, don’t count on me linking to your post if you didn’t send me the link. So make good use of the contact button under my photo in the sidebar and we’ll all be happy.

Expect to see the weather reports posted on Tuesday and Friday of each week. You are welcome to contribute more than one post to each collection of reports.

If you don’t have a blog, that doesn’t mean I don’t want to know about your weather. Go right ahead and tell me what it’s like outside your home in the comments of any Tuesday or Friday weather report.

Any questions?

And, as long as we’re on the subject, here’s what the weather’s like outside my house right now. 

 

I guess I can’t expect to get a suntan, but all in all, it’s not too bad for January in the Yukon.

How does your weather compare? (If you send me your weather post link in the next 24 hours, I’ll add it to this post.)

Update on Wednesday, January 2, 2008 at 8:04AM by rebecca

The updated weather reports from around the world and close to home:

• Fellow Yukoner Murry contributes a post with a photo of Lake Bennett that shows both ice fog and a sun dog, two fascinating weather features we see around here.
• Meanwhile, in Australia, Missmellifluous has beach weather….sort of.
• Leslie reports a winter chill even in Alabama, with her low temp not all that different from mine.
• Lindsey comments that it’s “REEEEEEEEELLLLLYYY cold here in NC. It was 75 at the beach on Saturday, and 22 today.”
• There’s a wind chill advisory in Illinois, so Kim posts a cold weather recipe.
  
• Carla is happy for the opportunity to tell us about her weather geekness and January in Ontario.
• Mark in Lemont, Illinois is colder than I am.
• Added on Wednesday evening: Island Sparrow is hunkered down in PEI with “plenty of food, wood for the fire  and a new Christmas book to read.” It’s the fourth storm, she says, this week. She’s posted some lovely photos of the snow.
• My sister-in-law Karen, who lives in southern California, writes that her latest local weather report says that “we will have more rain in the nest 8 days than in Noah’s time…”.
  

See what fun weather can be!

Bloggy New Year's Resolutions

 

I did a year end blog review yesterday and that led me to make two resolutions concerning this blog in 2008.

1. I’m going to do more just for fun posts. I used to do more lighthearted pieces, but somewhere during last year I got a little too earnest, I think. So expect a little more fluff in the future.
2. The second resolution should help me keep the first. I’m going to restore the monthly themes and invite you to participate in them. Last year only January, February, March and November had themes. I stopped doing the themed months because they are so much work.  But they are also a whole lot of fun and I miss that. I’ve decided to give them another go, but cut back on how many themed posts I do during each month. Instead of doing them daily, I’ll do a couple  a week.
   

Are you wondering what this month’s them is going to be? I’ll take up that subject in my next post.

Favorites of 2007

Excuse me while I indulge myself in a little year end blog review, with links to my favorite posts for each month.

January
January was a month for lists, including one with books on theology suitable for the lay person. Favorite post? The coyote one, hands down.

February
It was children’s poetry month, with lots and lots of participation from other bloggers. I also wrote a little about what propitation means. But my favorite post during February was one of the Saturday’s Old Photo posts.

 

March
This is the month I moved over here to the new blog. It was also the Irish themed month, and that was a whole lot of fun. During March, I worked hard on a couple of posts on redemption: What Does It Mean? and From What Are Sinners Delivered? Still, my favorite post was one I wrote on the spur of the moment after an incident in the supermarket, Doing Our Job.

April
During April, I was still in my William Cowper, William Wilberforce and John Newton phase, so this month’s favorites are a couple of Sunday’s Hymn posts that included a bit on the life or William Cowper: There Is A Fountain and God Moves In A Mysterious Way.

May
In May I started the series from Hebrews 1 called Seven Statements About the Son, and those posts are undoubtedly that month’s most substantive post, but my favorite post has to be the one on Mike the Headless Chicken.

June
I graduated the youngest and finished up the Seven Statements about the Son posts with Seated at God’s Right Hand.

 

July
July was the month for justification. You’ll find

•  A quiz on justification, with answers here, here, here, and here.
  
• Christ’s Active and Passive Obedience in our Justification
  

August
I didn’t have all that much to say in August because I was making jam, canning peaches, harvesting the garden and painting the deck. I did manage to put together a quiz on the biblical and historical doctrine of the Trinity along with answers.

September
Let’s see. I posted instructions for canning peaches, and started posting the Theological Term of the Week with a post on the perspicuity of scripture.

October
I continued on with the theological terms posts and put together a biographical sketch of Jan Hus.

 

November

November was a  month of thanksgiving and I managed to post thankful thoughts every day until I went on a two week holiday. 

December
This month my biggest undertaking was hosting the Recipe Round Up, but my very favorite posts were the ones with scripture about Christ and light.