in early September, no less.
To dogs’ delight but then disappointments as
the wet snow went
to mud pretty quick
which discouraged UPS deliveries although
within a day it was dry enough to allow binins as usual.
We were blessed with a few days’ blue skies
and even though the snow’d left ash on the windshield it
was back to normal covid weather, snowy peaks and worries,
again, for the Inhabitant of the Dome. Dean was back in the hospital, third visit
this summer, for more torture at the hands of the Medical Establishment, an inexact science.
This time it turned out he’d been prescribed an excess of blood thinners by one doc and though his other felt he should have had none internal bleeding resulted to an alarming degree.
Haze or smoke or whatever it was remained offshore, over the plains
for awhile,
but by Wednesday Dean, having survived yet another ordeal in the Springs, was back, the Huajas were fading and our AQI was not good…
Long thin dogs roamed the woods, as did we…somewhat.
Indigenous Summer is on the way!!
strange meteorology
Wow, I had read about the snow but I sort of thought it was just a dusting. That’s a lot of early snow. I would be glad or thrilled or sorry that you were able to get back to “binins as usual” if only I knew what binins were. BTW, is this the first time the labs have been in snow?
“binins” refers to a sign that used to be out on 69 halfway between Walsenburg and Farisita where an old guy used to resell pop and beer out of his adobe lean-to…when open the sign would say “open for binins” [i.e. business]. The pups [not labs, actually; they are border collie/golden retriever mixes VERY closely resembling flat-coated retrievers [https://www.akc.org/dog-breeds/flat-coated-retriever/]] were in considerable snow last Christmas here. Loved it. Sad to say, we probably won’t [for the first time in three decades] make it back for that this year.
The photo that includes a round (at least from this POV and in plan) grey rock next to the V for victory twin pine tree trunks, and given the dark front edge of the rock and a certain shadow on the ground looks to me astonishingly like it is hovering at an elevation of about 12 to 15 inches. (The photo is the 5th to the last.) Am I the only once who sees it that way? If so, well, that figures. We in NY are getting a light mist layer in the sky which has been attributed to the fires on your side of town. I just scrolled back. It’s still floating, but I had not noticed the laughing frog face on the rock at the bottom, look to the right top. I submit this just as proof that this quarantine etc. has been going on for long already.
I think you may be right about the frog…and the floating rock. Stranger things have happened…