Good morning!!!!

[jbrumberg]

Low 40F's and fog here this morning. Fog is starting to breakup and lift. The sun is starting to break through the mixed level clouds. It should hit ~60F today high 60F's tomorrow. And then a possible mixed precip event Thursday ending in rain and a wet weekend. Looks like the ice/snow around here will be mostly history by the end of the week.

If it dries up enough I will be messing with firewood today. This will keep me "stockpiled" with the "small" stuff. Winter is not over around here until mid - late April. Only +38" of snow this year; we are "underperforming" from the norm.

I plan to roast a boneless (1/2)leg of lamb in the Big Green Egg tonight + rosemary encrusted baked potatoes. I really need to trim our transplanted now indoor rosemary bush. The oregano that we transplanted did not make it. After tonight the BGE's inner ceramic shell needs some furnace cement to fill some cracks. I can not complain about the repair. I have only replaced the charcoal grate in the BGE's +25 years of regular use.

Randy- That's a nice looking shed. I hope that you fill it up quickly and get many years of use from it.

My + thoughts, wishes, and prayers for all.

 

[Bird]

Drew, I don't think it has much to do with how far north Laramie is. It's the elevation, 7,200 feet.
When we were in Mesa, AZ. in 70ｰ weather it would be snowing in Flagstaff, AZ. 6,900 feet. 150 miles away.

Long ago, we spent the month of January, 1990, in Tucson, AZ, beautiful weather, did a lot of sight seeing in shirt sleeves, played a lot of shuffleboard since the Voyager RV Park had the best courts and equipment I've ever seen. And on January 12, we drove up Mt. Lemon, ate lunch in the ski lodge restaurant, watched the skiers, threw snowballs at each other in the parking lot:laughing:, then went back down to Tucson and played shuffleboard in shirt sleeves that afternoon.

Then we spent February, 1990, in Phoenix; still very nice weather. On February 5, we decided to drive up to Flagstaff and maybe on to the south rim of the Grand Canyon. But the further we went up the highway, the worse the snow and road conditions became, and Margaret kept wanting to turn around and go back. When we came to a Jeep that had slid off the highway and turned over about 30 miles south of Flagstaff, I let Margaret win.:laughing: Never did get to the south rim.:laughing:

 

[CWB Wyo]

It got down to +1*, yesterday was overcast with light snow for most of the day. Looks like today is going to be overcast with a high in the teens and a light breeze. The next few days are going to be cold with below 0 temperature over night.

Got most of the snow moved yesterday. Just need go out and finish it off.

Hope everyone has a nice day.
CWB.

 

[PJSprog]

67°F and rain this morning, going up to 71° today. Radar shows it will probably rain here all day. We'll take it. Unfortunately, the bottom is supposed to fall out again tonight, with temps in the 30s tomorrow. Hoping all that rain doesn't freeze up on us.

We spent a week in the Grand Canyon area back in 2011. We stayed in Flagstaff and drove to The Canyon and other sites every day. It was the first week of June, and it was in the upper 20s and lower 30s every morning when we got up. There was still snow at the top of Mount Elden. By afternoon, it would be around 80° at the South Rim. The 50-60° swing in temperatures every day was quite different for us. We also hiked around Sunset Crater Volcano one day, walked through some ancient Hopi ruins, visited Meteor Crater, and yes ... we even took pictures "standin' on the corner in Winslow Arizona." We really enjoyed our visit there.

 

[daugen]

came in to call the fuel oil folks, no joy at the diesel tank.
$2.29 for farm diesel. 200 gallons, pickup is too high so 50 gallons sits in there.
I should manually pump it out...

got everything watered with the water wagon this morning as the fog burned off and the sun came out.
Now to work on getting water to the garden. 1.5hp sprinkler pump just arrived, putting that inline with the new underground
line to the garden.

 

[Looking4new]

Freezing rain has arrived! It actually got here about 8:30. I am going out now to deal with it.

 

[jbrumberg]

PJS- Nice pictures. Thanks for sharing.

We have never been out West (yet). There is so much to see and so many places to go that it is actually easier to plan traveling in CR. We really should travel around and see it before one of those caldera's blows.

We've never been to CA either.

 

[toppop52]

I was last at the canyon in 1972, I suppose it still looks similar. Flip Wilson was at the rest stop on the south side, we joked about being related.

 

[hawkeye08]

Long ago, we spent the month of January, 1990, in Tucson, AZ, beautiful weather, did a lot of sight seeing in shirt sleeves, played a lot of shuffleboard since the Voyager RV Park had the best courts and equipment I've ever seen. And on January 12, we drove up Mt. Lemon, ate lunch in the ski lodge restaurant, watched the skiers, threw snowballs at each other in the parking lot:laughing:, then went back down to Tucson and played shuffleboard in shirt sleeves that afternoon.

Then we spent February, 1990, in Phoenix; still very nice weather. On February 5, we decided to drive up to Flagstaff and maybe on to the south rim of the Grand Canyon. But the further we went up the highway, the worse the snow and road conditions became, and Margaret kept wanting to turn around and go back. When we came to a Jeep that had slid off the highway and turned over about 30 miles south of Flagstaff, I let Margaret win.:laughing: Never did get to the south rim.:laughing:

Back around 1980, while attending college in Phoenix, a bunch of us went to Tucson for party at the college, then went skiing up at Mt Lemon. I had never skied before so I learned to ski that day. I did very well and only stayed on "bunny hill" for a few runs. We had a blast, had a nice break from school and work and no one was killed.

 

[sodamo]

66°F and no rain

Busy day ahead. Have to drop Kalani at Vet for some lump removal.
Dentist appointments this afternoon.
Back to town to get Kalani from Vet.

Be safe
Have a great day