The last showed up bright and breezy through buggy windows, days to pump water – two feet in four hours on Friday but after six a full tank on the 31st,
a last late lunch on the porch, a breezy bright walk…
and eight for New Year’s Eve dinner and vids.
Following goose soup and Linda’s “My Misspent Youth Proved To Be a Good Investment” Christine showed videos in progress from her Santa Fe residency after which the crowds dispersed
and with a last glass of champagne we actually lasted past midnight to welcome 2017, wherever ye may lead, ulp, ulp. Ulp.
Rising late, the First Day accommodated a leisurely lunch interspersed with small collapses to alleviate the lingering effects of the Night Before as well as the malingering KC Cold all of which conspired to preclude further partying in favor of a more moderate and interior afternoon,
with time in the studio, for observing, mostly.
So the sun sets on the First Day;
…to rise, as might have been foreseen, on the Second;
…a day ending in a rather raucous dinner for ten [not shown] of Christine’s astounding chili
making the Third, which came up icy in the valley,
yet again rather dim, -inished and quiet into the night.
Well, such is the New Year, so far, really…
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Big rains, wet snows are lashing the Sierra while Libre just looks darn cold. I like those contemplative studio shots and it sounds like art projects and delicious chili are seeing you through. Happy 2017 (at least for now, ulp!).
Twenty feet predicted for Mammoth! Whoa…here it’s snowing tiny, minus four at nine a.m….nothing like up north.
….and quite cold up in the Near North too- my car thermo measured -20 in Cranbrook yesterday morn. yikes.
well if everyone’s talking about weather, we’ve got minus temperatures too
meanwhile.
interesting assortment of lamps looking out at the view
Interesting lamps? You ain’t seen the half…the quarter, the tenth of them! C’mon over and see us sometime…
I am not sure about the 20′, but I have been shoveling the 5′ we got last night. It is a beautiful sight though. Mammoth has amazing snow removal capabilities. All roads cleared overnight. There will be water for all next spring.
The 20′ was being predicted for the duration; do you mean 5′ at your new lowland home? Anyway, water for spring, yes! Even Gerlach’s getting some, first time in years they’ve had any snow at all.
No, lowland home is bright sunny with only a little rain. We still have Mammoth until it sells or is ravaged by floods and pestilence.
Yee ha! we just had a near life-threatening pickup of new woodstove in near whiteout conditions down here…subsequently to be documented. Stay cozy; we’ll be trying to cross those Sierra mountains in a mere week…