Rainy Craneys in the field
This storm swept up Irish Canyon so fast the other day - it went the 15 or so miles I could watch it in a couple of minutes. No wonder there was a tornado touched down in eastern Wyoming yesterday. Not sure I've ever seen anything go by that quickly before. From the looks of it, it must have been hail or snow or both. Was only going to put on a couple of photos but I tried these three out to see which ones I liked better and decided to just leave them there.
O this darn word processor in the blog! It is pretty inferior, and won't let me format the way I want to. Maybe I just down know enough to know how to make it work. Anyway I want to switch to the "normal" text color for the body of the blog. Nope. The formatting also often doesn't stick, arbitrarily putting in spaces where I don't want them, sometimes many spaces. See how I like the paragraphs justified (even on both sides)? It won't hold that either, always wants to center the paragraphs like I do under the photos. Maybe there's a shortcut key I don't know about. The spell check isn't so great either.
It's been raining all morning So nice. The dogs are denned up again, and every time I ask if they want out the answer is NO. They look at me with something between "Are you crazy, woman?" and fear in their eyes that I'll actually make them go out, like praying "Just let me disappear".
I got the bathroom cleaned this morning. Joe has about got the new faucet installed on the utility room sink. It looks real pretty compared to the old one which is likely more than 50 years old and just now started to go bad. They don't make things like they used to. (Later:) BTW the new utility room faucet doesn't work there, so he'll have to take it back. But he did get the old one not to leak. He pulled out the washer and dryer and we got it pretty well cleaned under those and wiped down the walls. Probably they haven't been moved for ten years!! After Joe got done with his faucet work in the utility room I went ahead and cleaned and mopped there and the kitchen. And then he vacuumed the living room and did a nice job. I dusted, so together we're getting things caught up.
There are a lot of birds around the yard this morning. Mostly a flock of some kind of fly catcher. I haven't been interested enough in identifying them, (flycatchers are difficult), just enjoying seeing them. Also some white crowned sparrows and doves plus another Western Tanager. The cranes were also just outside the yard so will put a picture of them on. They are sure wet and bedraggled.
Kay asked me to make a map of the route and roads with mileages to Round Hill for our retreat at the end of the month. I said I could do it, but so far have not found good enough reference to do anything but draw the roads ... sort of. No mileage and not all the county road numbers we will need for it. But I'll keep looking. I have a few more maps in the file drawer to go through. After that, the next idea is to take a ride over there and measure the mileage on those roads, check the road markers. They are all dirt so will have to wait until the rain quits. (Later): I called Kay to tell her the trouble I was having finding the distances, and she said she made a map and was having the same trouble. I told her I wished she had let me know because I wouldn't have spent all that time trying to do it. Anyway, she's going to drive in there and measure it on her way to Big Piney in a day or so.
Bonnie has still been really sick. Yesterday I made a big batch of hamburger, cheese, tomato sauce and macaroni and split it with them, and added a veggie and salad, so dashed over there with that about dinner time. Out of curiosity I measured the distance and it is just about 15 miles between us.
