Lest you doubted my story of rain yesterday… which continued throughout the night and morning and has recently restarted… We’re almost to 2″ of rain… which, by Wyoming terms, is 1/7 of our yearly moisture! When the clouds lifted this afternoon… Yup. No surprise there. Boy, I’m glad we’re not riding today! My opinion on…
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One of the Holes in Our Lives
Hiking along a few weeks ago… technically it was May 3rd… I snapped a quick shot of the newly worked field next to the creek… the red bank above was catching the sunset light… and I liked the brown/blue/red combination. Not a great photo. I take tons of *notgreatphotos*. I just don’t usually share them!…
Infrastructure
A Lesson On Infrastructure. “Infrastructure is the basic physical and organizational structures needed for the operation of a society or enterprise.” Even to me, it was very obvious that this bridge had sustained damage in the floodwaters of a few days ago. Where before this had spanned a sweet little stream… It’s now an island…
Still Watching and Waiting
To everyone that sent your concerns, well-wishes, and prayers… thank you so much! It means a great deal that people across this country care what happens to us. We’re healthy, the cows are ok, and all this causes for us is WORK. Please keep the people that have lost their homes, belongings, family members, and…
Flood
We knew it was coming… and it’s a long ways from being over. We’re hoping it’s crested for the night, another 6-8 inches and Daniel’s basement will be in serious trouble. As it was, we managed to keep up with the inflow with a wet/dry vac and we hauled 90% of my stuff out of…
Here It Comes
Another day of rain. This time, the creeks have decided it’s finally time to come up. That’s Canyon Creek. This is the Nowood River close to the highway. And finally, further north… Here’s Otter Creek. Ten Sleep Creek hasn’t come up, at least in town. But for those of you north of here (and downstream)……
Not Even
Tonight the library hosted Glenda Bell aka Calamity Jane. Her performance/discussion was lively, interesting, and enlightening. However, since we’re on Day 349,710 of RAIN… only 11 people showed up. We had originally planned an ice cream social on the lawn outside the library. Monday, we were smart enough to figure out that was probably NOT…
Fickle Wyoming
Hard to believe, being the 19th of May and all… but the Highway between Ten Sleep and Buffalo is closed due to snowfall. Not just Powder River Pass, but the entire distance. Of course, I do recall Victoria and I coming over the hill in a snowstorm in May… 1-3 FEET, yes, FEET of snow…
Stay Tuned
So after our 2 day run to Laramie and back, it was back to farming. With the late spring and plentiful moisture, the guys have been squeezing in any farming they could do anywhere! I’ve been trying to finish painting the basement, and since we know how boring that is… I took my doggies for…
Wordless Wednesday – “Ice Falling”
The ice is beginning to fall out of the creek… or as they called it in Alaska… “breakup”. **** February 23, 2010 Elsa, Dear February 23, 2009 Cousin Robb 4 February 23, 2008 My Guys
Delicate Poo
Compared to the greyness of yesterday… intensified by my use of black and white photography… today was almost a painful blue… The first shot, I was really looking at Daniel in the rearview… the second, at our shadow on the creek ice. They are almost exactly in the same spot… pretty good for a moving…
Wordless Wednesday – “What A Paintbrush!”
For this week… Jack Frost decorates the scenery, and boy! what a paintbrush! Keep those Questions coming for the Q&A session! **** February 2, 2010 No entry. February 2, 2009 Eggs February 2, 2008 No entry.