Tuesday April 14 2007

Honeymoon Cabin

24x30 Oil

by Lynn Thomas

Puulleeeezze Don't Make Me Go Out There

Hail ! ?- I thought it was worse than this

when it was happening

It's 8 p.m. and I haven't had anything interesting to write about on the blog. So will just see what I can come up with. It was snowing when I first woke up this morning and very dark dreary clouds around. About an inch or so fell, could be more since it was melting all along, and then in an hour or so it began to rain. It rained off and on all day. At 5 p.m. there was lightning and the thunder began rolling. The dogs, especially Sparky, don't like thunder. This time Raven was hiding her eyes between my knees. They don't want out, and I don't know how Raven is holding "potty" so long but she is. Sparky finally went out before dinner, and it was prodigious. The clouds were about as dark as I've ever seen them as this front went over. We got a hail storm for a while and more rain. The hail was about the size of large peas. This all prompted me to look up the weather forecast, and it sounds ominous, especially for the country east of the divide - WRs are the continental divide. It says 3 or 4 FEET of snow over on the other side tomorrow. I'm assuming that's in the mountains. I wish it would dump that on our side, just so there would be more water in the rivers and streams this summer. It will be interesting to see what happens by morning and tomorrow when it's about 90% chance of snow.

You can always check our weather here by going to wyoming.com and on the bottom right click the city you want the report for. It's one of the best I can find.

The power went out a couple of times, several short ones and a longer time. Anyway it did a couple of things to the laptop - lost the external hardrive. I unplugged and that seems to have come back on. I hope it didn't loose stuff. And there's been something trying to install itself that won't get off the screen. Maybe I have them both resolved.

I hear James has had stormy weather and I'm waiting to hear he got back from Georgia o.k. He went to his brother-in-laws funeral there and should be back about now. I never found out if Kathy went too or not. Anyway the TV says there have been terrible storms down there, looks like he couldn't possibly have gone at a worse time.

I felt sleepy after lunch so took a nap for a few hours and felt very refreshed afterwards. When I woke up there were a couple of painting shows on the TV so enjoyed them. Didn't know until now they were on. I'm going to one of them online Gary Spetz watercolors http://www.paintingwildplaces.com/ and check him out. Betty called me and we mostly just said hi how are you. She said the wind was bad down there. There's only one place I know of where the wind blows worse than Wyoming and that's Nevada. Just maybe not as often.

Time to get some dinner and warmed up our Easter leftovers. Beverly called and we talked for a while. I had ordered the DVD Marley & Me from Amazon and it came today, so I'll have to take some time to watch it. I guess right now the only way is in the player on the laptop. I haven't tried that yet, so will see how that works. Will get a comfortable chair first.

I've been hearing cranes and meadowlarks. That made me realize how much I was missing being at the ranch to see them arrive. I always love to see the cranes come to the field, and hear the meadowlarks there and see their bright feathers. I'd like to think about learning how to make a few bluebird houses to put out on our property here. It should be quite easy and bet I could go right to something with that info online. Just thinking, mind you.

Maybe I'll get my down coat on and go stand out in the front yard with the dogs for a little potty break before bedtime. Reduced to monitoring .... Well ..... they asked and went out in the back yard all on their own and got their business done without getting muddy feet. Yeaaaaaa......

Wellllll ..... that's about enough of my "nothing happening" blog.