Joe Beernink

Remember that ice storm we had back in January? Well, some of the neighbors are still cleaning up from it. On Thursday, they brought in some folks to top the poplar...

My wife and I are making a yearly thing of getting away for a weekend in May to celebrate our wedding anniversary. We drop the kids off at Grandma’s house, and...

Today is the 7th anniversary of our move into this house, so I decided to celebrate it by getting hitched. What’s that? I’m already married? Yes, of course I am. But...

It’s not exactly summer here, but with 78 degrees, it’s close enough for the kids to ask for the sprinklers. So on the sunniest, warmest day so far in 2012, we...

After my rant earlier this week about spring never really coming, well, it arrived. And apparently, the bees came with it.

The weather here is getting ridiculous. While most of the country is suffering with 80 degree days, we have sideways snow, hail and rain mix. This is not spring. This is...

This weekend we’ve had snow, sleet, hail, drizzle, rain, sun, heavy rain, cloudbursts, and now, this: Oh yeah, we’ve had dark too.

In March of 2000, I bought a brand-new Nissan XTerra. In the last almost-12 years, I’ve put on just over 104,000 miles, driving mainly back and forth to work. For a...

I wandered around the neighborhood this afternoon in the rain, and took some more pictures of yesterday’s ice storm.  We also drove though the older part of town, and trees two...

The ice wins.