OK. I can tell this halfway living in two houses at once is gonna get difficult. My computer’s here, but I was there, and when I WAS here, I was busy. Got it? That’s my Excuse For The Day and I’m sticking with it. Plus… A frozen bale and a loose grass bale with a…
Tag: weather
Fair Weather Cowgirl
We’ve received 10″ of snow with this storm, more than we’ve had for quite a while! 4″-5″ were predicted, so when it dumped this on us, we were surprised! It is very light and fluffy… even my snowshoes yesterday didn’t make much of a difference! Since we were due to bring our cows in from…
Due To The Weather
Let’s just say it snowed a tad here last night and today. Enough that I took my snowshoes when I walked my dogs! My usual trail to the dam and beyond was more than I could stand, I barely made it to the dam! The dogs were exercised as well as I was. Elsa, being…
Happy New Year!
We had planned to have our New Year/Birthday Bonfire again… and I had planned to use some fantastic firelight photos tonight. The pile we are setting on fire this time is HUGE… and the snow around it will help prevent it from spreading! The only minor problem we had… It’s COLD. -28 this morning on…
Icy Coolness!
We’ve managed to get 6 inches of snow out of this storm… and it’s currently 2 degrees… with predicted winds. When those winds hit, it’ll be NASTY! Yesterday high winds were hitting all over the state, blowing semis over and off the roads… drifting snow over the roads and turning them to ice. Wind gusts…
Panic and White Knuckles
I don’t know if I should title this entry, “Panic” or “White Knuckles”. After falling asleep while trying to watch the National Finals Rodeo… I awoke to a dog’s snuffling nose at my bedside. Grabbing ten more seconds of warmth, I tossed back the covers and glanced at my windows. No rim of frost. Good….
Sunset Angles
The first rain we’ve had in a Long Time started about 2 am… and the wind blew… and I laid in bed thinking I’d wake to a snowy blanket over my leaves. Nope. It was cool and damp and still windy, but no snow down here. Now on the mountaintops, yes! Rumor has it there…
Fame and …
For those of you who don’t Tweet… or follow me on Twitter… or read the little update in the left hand sidebar… I gotta brag (again). My photo of the storm cloud that hit Ten Sleep made the front page of the local paper. Of course, I sent it to them… and the National Weather Service…
Storm
We were headed to the Mills place about two this afternoon, it had rained a bit and we couldn’t cut hay… and I’ve been working on the bathroom up there quite a bit on my own. Today, the guys were going to lend a hand. As I headed out my door, part of a ominous…
Rain Is a Good Thing
Rain is a good thing… honestly… in Wyoming’s dry climate, water is scarce. On Wyoming ranches everything is based on limited water. Reservoirs and pipelines to water cattle. Irrigation for crops and hay. Wells for drinking. Snow runoff captured to help through the ‘dry’ summer heat. Well. Actually. We haven’t hit that ‘dry’ heat spell…
Dirt Slick
YESYESYES! FINALLY! A gorgeous day… not a cloud in the sky. Snow on the mountain, yes, but VERY nice here. Plus the creek DIDN’T flood the way the National Weather Service predicted! All good news. The bad news… I spent practically all day inside cooking a birthday cake, macaroni salad, and then lunch and then…
Cats and Dogs, Foxes and Dogs
.53 inches That’s the precipitation for the past 24 hours as of 7 am this morning. It doesn’t sound like *anything*, I know, but in Wyoming it is. It has continued to rain all day, so by morning again… perhaps another .5 is possible. That’s 1/12 of our entire precip for the year. Duck jokes,…