April 8, 2019 Man Plans, God Laughs

My hummingbird light holding
some of the new snow.

After Sunday's snow
melted.

Friday 4/5. The day remained overcast and rain began to fall around 1:00 pm, and fog moved in and out.  In other words, just a dreary Seattle day.  The wind popped up and our high was 46.

I started crocheting a basket out of a sheet with orange, blue and yellow stripes.  Just had the urge again after a couple years.

Saturday 4/6. It is 33 and snowing this morning.  We took our morning walk in the falling snow and it was quite pleasant.  As the temperature warmed to 40, the snow began to let up around 1:00 pm, leaving about an inch.  Shortly thereafter it was raining, and shortly after that we were encased in a thick fog.

By 3:00 pm, wind had chased the fog away and we had sunshine and some blue sky for our afternoon walk.  The new snow had disappeared by mid-afternoon, and our high for the day was 43.

When I talked to Elsie on the radio this evening, she said they were going to try to drive up tomorrow afternoon.  Woo Hoo!

Sunday 4/7. It is 32 and mostly cloudy this morning with 4” of new snow!!  Very wet and heavy snow that is already slipping off the roof and trees.  I called Elsie and told them not to try and drive up.  They only received less than 1/2".  So much for getting Down There on Tuesday.  Man plans, God laughs.

We were bombarded by rain and snow bombs falling off the trees on our morning walk.  And the sky was already beginning to clear.  We were amazed that any of the snow that fell on the ground or a surface other than snow was gone – melted – by 1:00 pm.  Lots of mud though.

We have juncos, nuthatches and sparrows Up Here now, although they may be having a change of mind about staying.  We haven’t heard the wren for a few weeks, but he’ll be back.

Knowing that I won’t be going Down There for at least a few more days, I got the urge to make snacks.  I roasted some chick peas and shook a mixture of garlic and herbs on them.  Very good, but the recipe called for them to be in the oven way too long, so a lot of them were burnt.  Then I baked a spinach dip.  That turned out pretty good.  Tomorrow I will try to make some crackers.

We had afternoon blue sky and sunshine with a high of 50, but the sky was mostly cloudy by sunset.

Monday 4/8. It is 36 and just started snowing again at 6:45 am.  A half an hour later the ground is all white. . .

Thought for the day: Sometimes you’re the windshield and sometimes you’re the bug.