February 6, 2019 Brrrrrr!

All is white under snow
& rime.

Monday 2/4. So here I am, finally watching the snow fall while I drink my coffee.  It began falling on the other side of the mountains yesterday afternoon, which is unusual for February.  We received 2-1/2" over night, while friends and family over there have 3" to 9"!

People tend to be amazed by different weather variations during their lifetime, as if all the earth's weather is changing.  But one lifetime is a nanosecond in geological time, and therein lies the pattern, barring some cataclysmic event, such as a meteor slamming into our planet.  Often very warm weather precedes an ice age and very cold weather precedes a warming trend.  Who knows what is really going on.

Meanwhile, it snowed all day Up Here but was very bright day.  The sun even managed to shine through the cloud cover for a few minutes during the afternoon, but that had little effect on the snowfall.  By 5:00 we had another 1-3/4".

JB tried using the snow blower, but the snow was just too deep.

Tuesday 2/5. It is 10/8 this morning and overcast, but there is no valley fog.  We received another 1/4" last night before the snow stopped between 8:00 and 9:00 pm, which made it 4-1/2" in the past 24 hours.

After breakfast, JB and the dogs hiked up to the panels to clean them off.  They  came back down and JB started the generator to pump water into the cistern.  Then they were off again for their morning walk.  On the south ridge, JB spotted our little herd of deer down the slope grazing and moseying to the west.

I was only outside to feed the girls, bring the wood in and go for an afternoon walk, which was really not enjoyable because it was so cold.  Especially with a light breeze over the south ridge.  I did see a sliver of blue sky to the south and a sliver of blue way to the north with sun shining on the mountains up there, but that was the only blue sky for the day.  The thick, low clouds cut off the mountains to the west clear down to the bottom of the foothills.

Our high for the day was just 19.  Brrr!  All I really want to do is sit by the wood stove, drinking hot cocoa with peppermint schnapps, and enjoy a good book.

Wednesday 2/6. It is 10 again this morning with clear skies.  Still more cold days to endure.

Thought for the day: The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and his fellow man.  Robert G. Ingersoll