January 16, 2015 More Rime & An Antler Shed

Rime on the lantern. . .

Rime on the chicken wire. . .

Rime on the branches and clothes lines.

Wednesday 1/14. One of the perks about being retired is being able to say: "Oh, look - it's 11:00 am!  I guess I better get dressed!"  The morning after bringing up five newspapers and a stack of magazines is usually the day when I say it.

JB has spent the last couple months reading almost all the books written by Brad Thor.  And I found at least half of them at the Salvation Army thrift store.  Love that place!

By the time I did get dressed, our fog had given way to a high cloud ceiling, although the fog did stay in the valleys for the day.  And the ceiling kept going up and down, as it has been for the past few days.

Our world is completely rimed.  A fragile white that lets more color show through of whatever object it is on than snow does.  A seemingly weightless web of crystal.

It didn't even occur to me this New Year's Day to make any resolutions.  So that was obviously my resolution - not to make any.  Works for me.  I never like to disappoint myself anyway. . .

Betty gave us another egg today.  She kicked most of the straw and shavings out of the nesting boxes, then made three little nests in the straw underneath, and that is where she is laying the eggs.  So today I had to re-line the boxes with straw and shavings, and put a little more straw on their floor.

Our high for the day was 25 and the sun is still hiding.

Thursday 1/15. It was 24 and we were still in the clouds this morning.  The rime continues to grow its crystals, some almost 2" long now.  Everything outside is white.

Dinga found a perfect shed antler and brought it into the yard.  I had to coax her with a treat to get it from her.  Must be fairly new as there are still spots of blood on the end.  Almost looks like an elk antler.  Will show it to Larry and see what he thinks.  It is beautiful!

We put the plow back on Miss Kitty as there is snow in the forecast for tonight.  It began falling fairly heavily just before 3:00 pm for a little more than a half an hour.  From then on it was just in fits and spurts.

Last time he was Down There, JB traded his hockey gift certificate from Larry and Elsie for four tickets to this Saturday's Wenatchee Wild game.  We will drive down to their place and go in their pickup together.  They have never been to a hockey game before!  Looking forward to it.

Friday 1/16. It is 25 and windy with clear skies.  JB is getting dressed to go clear the panels and measure the snowfall.  It looks like we got about 3" over night.  But the sun is back!

Thought for the day: Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice? Lillian Helman