Good Morning

Good Morning

    12/19/25 7:00 35F (1.6C) Overcast. Cold with a slight breeze. Damp and gloomy. Scattered drifts of slushy snow melt into the muddy grass. The rooster crows, forlorn and still locked in the coop. A bird squawks, a dog barks. A disgruntled crow croaks from...
Good Morning

Good Morning

    12/18/25 6:45 38F (3.3C) Dark,  raining. There is no wind. The sky is a uniform , dull gray. It is raining like a cow pissing on a flat rock. By 7:30 I begin to see snow mixed with the rain. Very wet, more like raindrops with texture, a portent of...
Good Morning

Good Morning

    12/17/25 6:15 43F (6.1C) Clouds and ferocious wind gusts. It is dark. No hot tub  this morning.  We woke up at 2:00 and found the power out. It is still out now. There were rain squalls all night.  Terrific blasts of wind pelted  the house with debris....
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Good Morning

  12/16/25 5:45 50F (10C) Dark and rainy, with the wind dropping off. A hard rain is pelting down, rattling in the drain pipe, splashing through the muddy turf. In between the fog and clouds rests a thin band of not quite light, a slightly brighter shade of gray ...
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Good Morning

    12/15/25 6:30 45F (7.2C) Steady rain, little or no wind. We often have snow by now, it is really quite temperate, but after several warm, dry mornings it feels cold and wet.                      ...
Good Morning

Good Morning

  12/14/25 7:30 38F (3.3C) Partially cloudy, cool, calm, with thick fog in the canyon. There was a brief flash of brilliant color as the sun was about to crest the ridge, then it darkened, the sky turned gray and the fog closed in around me. A lonely goose is...