A lovely storm cloud rolled in last night, I just had to take photos of it while I was hauling in firewood…
the setting sun made the coming storm a delight to see.
This morning it starting sifting big fluffy flakes down for a short time, leaving us with just a skiff of snow.
The whole experience has been really lovely and the best part is the snow is wet.
However, as I write this it has a melted…giving the earth a nice drink.
Have a good Sunday Everyone!
Linda
It sure seems we have been hang’n at the house lots lately.
Sigh!
BUT Mom has started walking out on the place this week and WE GET TO GO WITH HER!!!!
Sure is fun!
I try….really I do…I, hum, try to stay with Mom and Fuzzy…BUT
THEREISSOMUCHTOSMELLANDDOOUTTHEREITISREALLYHARD!
Mom walks LOTS slower than I do…I mean, heck, I can be clear to the end of the field and BACK by the time she and Fuzzy get just a little ways into the field.
But to be fair, I think Mom walks with Fuzzy so Fuzzy doesn’t get lonely.
I really should also
BUT THERE IS SURE SO MUCH TO SMELL OUT THERE ————————–
We walked over to the equipment hillside, where Fuzzy scared up Robby the Rabbit. Fuzzy and Robby ran every which where, until Robby got tired and hid in the roller. Fuzzy barked at me to join him, but I was over with Mom looking at the old junk which really is homes for the mice.
The mice were not as interesting as the Robby the Rabbit but I was just too far away to be part of the fun. By the time I got there, Robby was tired and sitting in the roller just watching us.
Phooey.
We sat on the hillside and looked at the canyons of the Esclante and Dominguez for a short while….then we all moved over to the little pasture and Mom told us if it were night we could see all the cars coming across the desert from Grand Junction to Delta, but of course it wasn’t night so we couldn’t see the traffic.
Mom assured us it was there.
I headed down to the cattails, but Mom and Fuzzy didn’t they headed over to the little alfalfa field, Mom said half the place was good enough to walk for now.
The cows have made a path in the same spot in the field and in the dirt ditch that they have for over 40 years…Mom says it’s the shortest distance to where ever they are going.
Every time Dad sees the flattened out ditch (just in that one spot) he threatens to lay pipe there and cover it up. But he never does, he just gets out the ditcher in the spring and makes a new ditch.
I think he just likes to talk about the path, he really doesn’t care!
On the way back I joined Mom and Fuzzy, I really needed to be close to Mom because…..
My hurry had sort of vanished!
Because….
Well….
WE
HAD
TO
GO
THROUGH
THE
COWS!!!!!!
I’m really afraid of the cows!
I’ll bark at them if they get too close to the electric fence around the yard, but I don’t want to do more than that.
WHY?!?!?!
Those girls will CHASE YOU!!!
THAT’S WHY!!!
I had them chase me when I first got here, that sort of thrill I didn’t need again in my life!
Mom has to make me go in front of her, but I only go one step in front of her foot…
Mom and Fuzzy laughed at me, but I didn’t care.
As soon as we got through the herd of 70 pregnant females —- you think about that…
SEVENTY
(70)
PREGNANT
FEMALES
I ran right to the house!
Whew!
I enjoyed the walk, I sure did. But getting through all those cows is best!
Boomer
It’s cloudy, grey and chilly again here today.
I’ve been sick.
Well, actually I got sick the week before Christmas and seem to not be able to get well. I have a good day here and there, but nothing that lasts.
I’m taking the day off…resting by the fire.
I hope this finds all of you well.
COME ON SPRING!
Linda
Today is my volunteer day at the Delta County Historical Society and Museum. ( I do the blog from home and other research from home, but today I go in to help.)
I’m entering a year’s worth of Obituaries in the data base for future reference. Last Wednesday was really interesting, while I was there a gentleman came in wanting to know something about a relative who ‘supposedly’ lived in Delta in 1902.
The curator gave me the task of helping solve this little mystery, which was very easy to do through the census. On-line we also found a couple of people who are related to the same person, but the coolest part of all…….
The elusive man on the census had several borders-people who were renting rooms from him at the time of the census. Mr. Wetzel, the curator, knew immediately where the man’s business was located — it wasn’t the El-Dina, a boarding house still in use today, but none other than the Delta House! Delta’s First Hotel! (I will post some photos tomorrow on both blogs.)
The relative was the second owner of the Delta House.
It’s little victories like this that make history, research, and helping others out ever so much fun.
My 4 O’clock photos show that for a small amount of time we had clearing skies and shafts of sunshine then the next storm rolled in out of Utah.
It’s snowing all around us today, but NO WIND! I can handle cold (it is 10* right now) if the wind isn’t blowing.
Almost to February the count down is completing!
Linda
We are having the oddest weather for January. Weather more along the line of July. An unusual warm air mass has funneled itself up from the Gulf of Mexico, giving us RAIN.
Friday we were rather warm with heavy fog, the weatherman was calling an inversion. 
But we never cooled down to below zero, instead we stayed warm…22* all that day, into the night, and even into the next morning.
Visibility was very poor.
Then the weather people started telling us about the odd weather pattern we were now in.
Fog is beautiful.
We see very little fog here. As a child I was always fascinated that (for us, here in the high mountain desert) when we have fog it is really a cloud sitting down and surrounding us. Living in a cloud made me feel rather ethereal—light, airy, not earth-bound. It still does.
Then it started to rain…a very wet drizzle, you could walk in it for thirty minutes before getting soaked, but very steady. On and on it rained, all day, all evening, all night, until about 4 in the morning. Then it stopped. But the heavy fog didn’t leave.
Visibility, as I write this is 1/4 of mile. We are surrounded in cloud. It isn’t raining …. yet.
But it could start.
It might snow! The water guys are saying that it is snowing in the San Juan’s and up at Gunnison. That is good news. I hope it dumps FEET of very wet snow! 🙂
For FEET of snow I can enjoy living in a Cloud! 🙂 🙂
Linda
It’s snowing here today.
Last night, I remembered that I hadn’t taken my 4 o’clock photo yet. I usually take it on Wednesday afternoon, but for some reason it slipped my mind.
Our days are growing longer, instead of 9 hours and 30 minutes long, we have reached new lengths of 9 hours and 42 minutes.
We are still cold. Although, three days ago we warmed up to above freezing for about two hours, I did the happy feet dance the whole time.
Our day was darkening down when I got outside, the snow clouds just starting to blow in over the Plateau. Our storms usually come out of eastern Utah, crossing the Uncompahgre, then moving on past us toward the North Fork of Delta county. From there I don’t know where the storms go.
Randomly and very rarely (right where we live) a big storm will roll into Montrose from the Durango area, blow itself around to the Plateau and then land on us. The storms from the San Juan area can lose steam at Montrose and never make it clear on down here to our Mesa.
Even rarer is the storm that comes in from Gunnison, spins onto Montrose, then to us. Usually those storms (the ones from Gunnison head into Peach Valley and the Black Canyon area, then into the town proper of Delta).
I watch the sky a lot……as if you can’t tell. The sky and the weather are major interest and concerns when you farm and have animals that live outside.
But besides those things—I just plain enjoy the magic of the heavens and how they swirl and play upon the land.
Linda
Your Magic THOUGHTS WORKED!!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!
Fuzzy is home“`!!!
I’m so very happy!
He still doesn’t want to play much. He slept all afternoon and night, except when we went for a walk. Mom says we all have to do our ‘business’ outside, that’s the rule.
Fuzzy wanted to go with us, but he didn’t go far. Just Mom and I went far.
He has this funny coat on and it makes him breathe hard. I tried to tell Mom that Fuzzy’s coat is too tight.
Fuzzy talks to Mom all the time about how he is feeling.
Fuzzy never talks; I do all the talking, but now Fuzzy sort of whines and groans and looks at Mom…PLEASE HELP me he says. Mom sits by Fuzzy and pets and pets and pets him until he goes back to sleep.
NOW THAT starts to upset me, so I weasel my way in under her arm and make her pet me also. But if I try to get between her and Fuzzy, Mom says: “Boomer, that’s enough! Sometimes life isn’t about Boomer, sometimes it’s about Fuzzy!”
“HUH!!!”
“WHA”!
“Well I know that`!`! It’s just, geez, Fuzzy is getting ALL THE PETTINGS!!
So I go over and lay on Dad’s feet. Humph.
This morning Fuzzy felt well enough to go do the chores down at Shannon’s house, and to eat and drink a little something. But he is sleeping now as he had to have some pain medicine. I think life is really boring if Fuzzy is not up and doing something with me so I think I’ll go to sleep
Now
YAWN
Boomer
I just love these huge black birds!
While walking the dogs at Confluence Park I just had to take a photo of all the many, many Canada Geese that were enjoying what is left of the open water.
Suddenly I noticed white birds…I had to zoom in…I didn’t want to startled all of them and lose my chance to see what white birds are homing with the Canada’s.
I still really don’t know… domesticated geese that have flown the coop?
Snow Geese?
If anyone knows please leave me a comment…I am very interested.
Linda
We were up this morning at 3 to get our oldest daughter off to Florida for a mini-vacation.
Then at 5:30 we met our second oldest daughter and her husband at Denny’s to take them to breakfast for her 39th birthday! They were heading up to Grand Mesa to snow shoe for the day.
We got home by 7:30 and crashed for an hour…naps sure are nice things.
Linda
We warmed up yesterday just for about thirty minutes…then it dropped rapidly and we froze back up.
But for that short length of time the snow on the carport started to melt and drip off.
(You can see the two tiny drops against the background of the metal building, I hope)
I tried really hard to get a photo or two of the delightful melt, but they didn’t turn out very well…:)
Oh, well…short lived, but very enjoyed.
I hope your Sunday goes pleasantly for everyone. Fuzzy goes in for his operation Thursday morning. I am concerned that I’m doing the right thing…I sure hope so.
Linda
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