Scene Near Silver Creek YesterdayFLYBY ALERT: Tonight, the International Space Station (ISS) begins a week-long series of bright evening flybys over North America. The busily expanding station is now as bright as Venus even when it doesn't fly directly overhead; some observers report seeing it through clouds. US and Canadian readers, find out when to look using our new Simple Satellite Tracker: http://spaceweather.com/flybys You stick your zip code in and it tells you to the second when and where to look. (8:40 PM tonight here WNW.) Sounds like an exciting thing to see. The constellation Scorpio (that's me) is very beautiful right now as well.
Joe went to town early this morning. He invited me to go as he was putting on his coat and I was standing there still in my pjs and no breakfast yet, but I've been gone enough lately. Woke up 3 a.m. or so, and haven't gone back to sleep so might take a nap. Might not. I'm feeling pretty darn good.
I saw a small flock of meadow larks sitting on the corral today. Surely they are just reconoitering the territory, as I can't imagine they can find food here yet. Maxine saw cranes and also a bluebird, and she still has nearly as much snow as we do. It got to about 34 degrees today with a stiff wind blowing. There are more spots of bare ground beginning to show in the field.
Got the photos downloaded. and guess what, I took photos of that big herd of deer through the windshield and the camera focused on the water drops on the glass and the deer are ALL out of focus. Bummer. Too excited to run the windshield wiper? Kind of like buck fever I suppose. Some I got out the rolled down side windows will be o.k., but sure not as impressive.
A few days ago one special member of Gina and Bob's family passed away. Remember their dog Dell from when I went to spend some time with them. She had a stroke and they put her to sleep. She was 16. I know it has left a big hole in their hearts, and that Garfield also misses her, no one to pester and harass. Gina says: "there's definitely something missing in our house...ie right in front of the door. :) The Cat cries for an hour in the morning wanting to know where she is...in and out, in and out. Then settles down."
Charm said yesterday, "The county plow is clearing the road into their place at Boulder Lake Ranches. But they are having troubles getting through. A wing broke off the county road grader just past the Forest Service cattle guard. Jim helped Bill get it off, the bracket off, and all loaded into the county pickup. Yesterdy they still had the worst of the drifts to clear, not to mention the passage through the trees." Then she said, "They made it the rest of the way today. What a good job the crews did, but with that arsenal they had, it should look good....first the grader that broke; then a big Cat; then a snowblower. Jim and neighbors are in the process of moving vehicles in. As much snow as was pushed way off to the side, it shouldn't even be very muddy for long."
Today I'm did some online shopping for when/if a trip to the desert materializes. Maybe something to wear to Tayler's graduation, and a few nicer pairs of shorts and tops. I ordered a pretty lightweight skirt in Eddie Bauer. And a short sleeve hoodie and crop pants in "petunia" Frency terry. I'll probably wish I'd gotten the long pants, even for our summer.
Sheral, Virginia and Pat called today and had very nice visits with them. Virginia has a cold.
