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…
Tag: weather
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
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……
What a Memory! (aka Total Solar Eclipse 2017)
Pull out the thesaurus and find some new, descriptive words. Stunning. Gorgeous. Fabulous. Awe-inspiring. Breathtaking. Wondrous. Moving. It was all of those and many more. The 2017 Wyoming Version of the Total Solar Eclipse was GREAT. Oh, sure, there were some glitches in my photography… my GoPro gave me some trouble… which is VERY FRUSTRATING…
Wordless Wednesday – “Blossoms on Ice”
Blossoms on Ice Puzzle
Old-fashioned Storm
We spent most of the day without power… no biggee there, I’m set with a gas stove for cooking and wood stove for heat… it does really impact what you can and can’t do though! First order of business was to save my bushes outside… Reaching high with a garden tool, I could shake the…
Then This
Yard work. Mowing, picking up. Even helping Tess with a project I didn’t get pics of… Then… .77″ of rain overnight. Then this… Five inches of heavy, wet snow pulling down my lilacs and cherry bushes. It’s still snowing! What a spring!