January 16, 2017A Flood, Rime & Visitors

Rimed chimes.

Rime on the girls' pen.

Sun shining through the
fog to the south on
Sunday morning.

Friday 1/13. Even as I posted this morning, the fog was obliterating the mountains.  By the time I got back from feeding the girls, it was trying to move in on Rose Camp.  The sun broke through from the south but a light overcast formed and snow flakes began to fall.  Just like the past few days, it was as if an angel was gently sprinkling glitter.  It could fall like that all day and never be more than a trace.  Our high for the day was 10.

I did laundry this morning, but JB had forgotten to put antifreeze in the pea trap and we had a bit of a flood as soon as the washer drained.  He was able to turn the machine off before all the water came out, but we used a lot of towels sopping it all up.  It took about four hours to melt the ice in the trap with hot water, and be able to finish the wash. . .

After lunch JB cleaned off MAX and Miss Kitty, and got the engines running.  Then he did the same thing for my Jeep and moved her a little.  I did more crafting.

Randy says that a lot of people in north Idaho are going through their stack of fire wood too fast.  Too many below zero days.  Randy says he is going through his "like a beaver on crack!"

Last night we started watching the first season of The Flash, one of the DVD's our son gave us for Christmas.  Well done and entertaining.

Saturday 1/14. It was 8 and overcast this morning with high valley fog.  That light snow began falling again around 8:30 am, and was replaced by fog in the afternoon.  Our high for the day was 14.

This morning the laundry consisted of all the towels we had used yesterday. . .

JB moved the snow blower inside the shop so he can work on it.  Gridder told him how to get to the carburetor, which may be the problem.  I baked peanut butter/chocolate chip cookies.

Instead of coming up tomorrow, Gridder drove Larry and Elsie up this evening in Mr. Sixes' tracked side-by-side to bring groceries, mail and one of the tires for Miss Kitty.  Woo hoo!  We had a nice long visit and I sent them all home with cookies.

Sunday 1/16. It was 8 again this morning and clear, with high valley fog.  All day the sun and fog warred over Rose Camp, with the sun pretty much keeping the fog at bay.  It sneaked in a little around 3:00 pm but was again driven off.  Our whole landscape is rimed from yesterday's fog.

We spent a lovely, lazy morning reading mail, magazines and newspapers.  Haven't been able to do that for almost three weeks.  JB received a jury summons for the first week in February.  That won't be happening. . .

After lunch we put the new tire on Miss Kitty, but it was really too cold to do much else outside except for our daily chores.  Our high for the day was 10, but warmer temperatures are in the forecast for this week.  Unfortunately, so is flooding.  At least we don't have to worry about that.

Monday 1/17. It is 10 this morning with mostly clear skies and valley fog.  Overnight fog has added even more rime to everything.

Thought for the day: You can give a person knowledge, but you can't make them think.  Some people want to remain fools, only because the truth requires change.  Intelligence is Sexy, on Facebook