Good Morning

Good Morning

  10/28/26 7:15 44F (6.66C) AQI 29 Overcast with steady rain. A quarter inch is predicted for today. Looks like we will  set up in the rain. The truck is packed and ready to go. Perhaps we will find a fresh bloom of mushrooms. That would go well with our...
Good Morning

Good Morning

  10/27/26 6:15 45F (7.2C) AQI 25 Cloudy. No wind. It is sprinkling.  It’s been raining off and on all night. The full moon ghosts through thin clouds. An owl is hooting softly down by the creek. Coyotes up on Willow Flat have set all the dogs to barking....
Good Morning

Good Morning

  10/26/26 5:45 43F (6.1C) AQI 24 Dark, windless and wet. Walter is quiet. He has probably found a dry nook in which to hide. The rain is tapering off, water tapping through the leaves makes a welcome sound. Low in the west the full moon glows dimly through the...
Good Morning

Good Morning

  10/25/26 7:30 36F (2.2C)  AQI 20 Pink clouds dot the blue morning sky. No wind stirs the trees. The thermometer reads 36F but it feels colder. There has been activity at the vacation farm/distillery across the street. The absentee landlord from Seattle showed...
Good Morning

Good Morning

  10/24/26 5:30 33F (.55C) AQI 19 Full moon, waxing gibbous. The deck boards, shrunken with the dry cold, rattle beneath my feet. I had hoped to bathe in moonlight,  but I missed it by half an hour. The still night sky is filled with stars. No bird calls, no...