Clearing skies and clouds scudding by, chill from all the snow in the mountains.
Tag Archives: Country Livin’
Happy Thanksgiving
From the Mother Lode.
Happy Visitor
One of my neighbor’s cows came down the driveway and set-to munching on the front yard foliage. Apparently the automatic gate has the open/shut interval set too long and that allows a curious bovine the advantage of escape. Eventually Mike the Wrangler came by with a bale of alfalfa in the back of his truck and Bossie followed him out, back to the barn.
Narrow Trough
Monday dawned bright as clouds moving in were lit-up by sunrise.
After the trough moved through we got about a quarter inch of rain on Tuesday, and Wednesday dawned considerably cooler by a good twenty-degrees average daily temp…
77.7°F at 7:00AM
It just never cooled-down much overnight, after yesterday’s high of 108.5°F – but all these morning clouds is a bit weird…
The insulated garage is proving every bit of its worth and value, particularly for the health of the doggie, and the new 7-cu/ft garage freezer holds blocks of ice to cool her little pool. And without the roof insulation the freezer would be overloaded and not even function.
Liberty! And Grillin’!
Happy Birthday American Independence!!
Unusual Cooling
We’re getting a cooling trough with clouds moving fast across the skies. Last year at this time it was in the 90’s and climbing, but today we’ll be lucky to hit a mid 70’s high.
Unsettled Weather in the Sierra
83.1°F – The clouds are up and so is the grill. Chicken thighs and bone-in pork chops in a marinade concoction. I expect the weather will stay up in the High Country and not extend down here…but who knows?
Happy Memorial Day!
We remember the fallen and pray for our country.
Happy New Year – 154.3 % of “Normal”
Starting Thursday night with a couple of inches, the rainfall intensified Friday with three-plus more, until the evening when it really started to come down. Saturday we got over five-and-a-half inches, and at one point my little bridge was nearly submerged. The deluge began to ease-off in the afternoon and evening when we only got a few more inches.
Sunday we were about as relieved as Noah after his forty-day flood, since the drainage did it’s thing overnight!
Others were not so lucky, like my truck-mechanic over the hill to the right, who had six inches of standing water in his business. He gathered a crew of thirty friends, neighbors, and family and spent Sunday and Monday cleaning it out and drying out.
Not Clauswitz 