Oh, heavens! You guys made my day leaving all those wonderful comments and stories for me to read! I wish you would leave comments like that all the time… sometimes it feels kind of lonely here… but yesterday! What a crowd! Thank you so, so, So Much! The consensus seems to be… you will read…
Category: Weather
Rude
A few days ago, Winter was still snuggled happily in her blanket of snow. Buried in white, nestled along hills and creek sides, joyfully providing shades of blue and grey on top of her glaring brilliance. Today, Winter’s rude little brother showed up, snatching her blanket back from her bed. Warm wind melted snow, running…
Frozen
It was a tad cool this morning, -7, so when I trudged out to the chicken coop to set up my GoPro, I also brought along a bottle of bubbles. I seem to always have some on hand these days… I wanted to try to freeze bubbles. You see these things on the internet, you…
Awry
One of those days where plans go awry… We were headed to Cody for scheduled car repairs, but a winter storm blew in, so we made it as far as Worland! We made the loop of “fun” places to go… the BLM, the accountant, the bank, and the vet, before turning for home. Sometimes life…
Winter Storm
When you hit the highway and visibility is one and a half delineator posts… When the snowplow must be busy on the mountain because your highway is still unplowed… When your wheels throw up more snow on your rear window than your wiper can handle… When your top speed of 30 mph seems plenty fast……
#TBT: Snow Cowboy
I took this photo a few years ago. I was reminded of it as the snow poured down with this latest storm. I watched as it sifted down six or seven inches in Ten Sleep, while I worked, warm and dry, in the library. I know, though, that there were farmers and ranchers out in…
Big Snow
This photo makes it look like my windmill is entirely buried. It isn’t. We did have 8″ though! Lots of cow work happening today in the neighborhood, but I’m headed to the warm library.
Rain Ridge
Holy buckets. More rain. More work. A puzzle to make up for Wednesday! Rain Ridge Puzzle
Ta-da!
Re-watched videos… Took notes… Ta-da! (note the chickens and the whitetail bucks and raindrops! double-click to see it full sized) Rainclouds from Carol Greet on Vimeo.
Salsa
28 pints of salsa later (plus 3 pints of tomato sauce)… I’m done. Except for all those tomatoes on the vine under the big blue tarp… ugh. I’m almost to the point of letting the frost take them… but I know I will just can some plain ol’ tomatoes when they’re ripe. But not today!…
Enter Freeze Warnings
Blessed by rain… And now enter the cold front and freeze warnings! There is snow on the mountain. My tomatoes are covered, the ripe ones harvested… My windows are steamed from the heat of my salsa making endeavours. My Black Prince tomatoes are delicious, but their black color looks “off” when made into salsa… I…
Rain Days
Finally. Rain. Lots of it. An inch and a half as of this writing… which is great moisture for a dry steppe country like Wyoming. Rain days are vacation days for ranchers… go to town on a rainy day, and you’ll see your neighbors. We were going to be prepping for preg testing on Saturday……