Wowza. Two point two inches of rain in the past day and a half! We’re not very used to that much rain at once. This has definitely been a great year for moisture and it has changed the look of the country with green grass *still* at the base of the dry tops. That moisture…
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Typical for those in the ranching/farming occupation… if it rains… since you can’t work in wet fields or travel on slick muddy roads… you go to town! Vernon and I headed to Buffalo. With all the rain we had yesterday, it wasn’t a shock to wake up to a grey day. But when that fog…
Why Do I Garden in Wyoming?
There’s a smell to it… a smidge of ozone from the lightning, an icy coldness, a mown grass scent multiplied with different leaf and stem scents, wet earth, and muddy water. This morning was spent finishing a new flower bed and planting some last few tomatoes. This is the before photo. Note the gorgeous basket…
Music of the Meadowlark
Though it threatened, no rain fell here today. The wind decided to blow instead and the road is quickly drying from its persistent breath. We helped Brandon with his cows this morning, then took a tour of the Mesa Pasture… back for lunch while we waited for the vet to show up to check something…
Clouds and Swallows
Clear, brilliant blue skies build cloud after cloud, each one darker than the last. At some magical tipping point, the clouds release their darkness and a localized spot will receive lightning, thunder, maybe some hail, and a downpour of rain. It tends to be focused not widespread. The other night with blinding cracks and flashes,…
A Little Rain
I hauled most of my craft items to the Ten Sleep Brewery this morning. I sold a few things… Then a friend and I decided to blow over the mountain to Buffalo and check out their greenhouse and buy some flowers for the library… Mission accomplished. Our idea to eat or shop a bit more…
Rare
I can’t remember the last time I saw one of these. I tried to find my post about it but I had no luck. The rare, spiked snow porcupine. It must be coming out of hibernation.
Impressive
While the snow we had just received is quickly disappearing, Vernon and Daniel decided to zip up the mountain to see what conditions were like. They snowmobiled clear up to our mountain corral. We’re used to seeing it this way. It looks a little different. While pitiful compared to the snow amounts in Utah and…
Calving in a Blizzard Video
I managed to throw together a video for today’s blizzard. We were lucky and haven’t received near the record amounts of snow across the state. We’re counting our blessings!
Brittle Blue
For those of you who don’t know what -39* looks like… this is a pretty good photo of it. The creek, where the ice is out of it, is much warmer than the air… and it creates low lying fog along its banks. While most think snow should only be white, I think the more…
Safe and Warm
The winter storm has hit, bringing us 5” of new snow, light breezes, and closed or warning roads across the Cowboy State. Yesterday, 44 vehicles were in a pileup on Interstate 80. There were no “green” or dry roads on wyoroad.info. Quinlan had a basketball game scheduled in Worland (while statewide, many school activities were…
Ice, Ice, Baby
As most of Wyoming is digging out from a nice dose of snow, the storm, once again, missed us, giving us two inches the past couple of days. Not that I wanted more, but I’d prefer snow any day over ice. The trip to my chicken coop is a hazardous walk twice a day. Thank…