Wyoming usually has to remind us, quite early, that winter is on the way. In October we had our first snow. The cottonwoods hadn’t even dropped their leaves, or changed color for that matter! In November, the biggest storm magically appears as kids are coming home for Thanksgiving break. December brings storms in stages. January…
Category: Weather
Ah, the Romantic Life…
I’ve heard it many times. Heck, I used to believe it myself. How AWESOME your life must be… you live on a *RANCH*! Well, it is true MOST of the time… It is the small percentage of times when you are doing things like today, that most people wouldn’t enjoy. This is not Bonanza! (though…
Heat
During noontime breaks, when you’ve been working since 4:30 AM, you find the closest shade and take advantage of it! And around here, sometimes trees are scarce. Pickups aren’t! It has been HOT and DRY! We cringe when thunderstorms approach, dreading lightning and the wildfires they bring. The wet spring brought tons of grass, but…
Blizzard
My daughter has completed college and a semester of working as a substitute teacher. She now has applied for various teaching positions around the state, hoping fora small rural school 5th grade position. Since they were almost doubling her rent at the end of this month, she elected to move home and work on the…
So Much to Tell
It has been forever…and there is so much to tell. I guess I can start with some of the latest news and work backwards. It has rained and rained and rained and rained and snowed and snowed and rained here… We’ve had 2 weeks of wet weather, but the last four days have been phenomenal. …
Runoff
A few days ago in the midst of an afternoon walk, I stopped. The hillsides were covered in snow, the road I had walked on was ice. But a different sound was literally underlying the countryside. It took a minute to distinguish it. An unseen river was melting underneath my feet. The snow was melting and running…
Wwwwindsssssday…..
Well, actually it is Monday, but we’ve had Wind the past day and unlike other parts of Wyoming, we don’t always get wind here. We manage to whine like wind through the wires when we get it, too! Barring the drafts that blows through this old house and the creaking of the cottonwoods in my…
Heat Wave
Today was a heat wave…7 degrees above zero… That’s 45 degrees warmer than yesterday! Another soft inch of snow had fallen, just a powdery decoration on top of everything. So many things just seemed easier than they did yesterday…amazing at the change in thought processes that gave this low (still chilly) temperature a reprieve in…
Brrrrrrrrrrrrr
When your digital thermometer won’t show a readout, it is a good morning to not ask the temperature! We rolled outside at the normal time, the full moon sliding down behind the rimrock, the sun not quite up enough to reach down here next to the creek… The moon was bright against the amethyst sky,…
Snow
We haven’t had winter like this in years. It has sifted down all day long, sometimes heavily, sometimes not. In undisturbed places the white blanket is a foot deep, making any travel out of a rut difficult and sweaty! We cheated to move the cows down to the Christopherson place by putting out a hay…