The Hogsty

Morning. 69 degrees, sunny, breezy, then tonight its going to drop down in the 20s, snow, kill everything for a few days, then be back in the 70s on Monday.

In today's Cowboy State Daily News:

"After a Laramie man totaled his car colliding with a moose in the dark early morning hours Monday, he and his fiancée hoped that they could at least claim the meat. But then somebody else came along and stole their roadkill."

Morning. 46 degrees and windy. Friday we're supposed to plummet down to 19 degrees. Sigh. I don't even want to think about it. A ruined spring in Wyoming is completely expected, especially when spring comes a month too early. It is just as completely unwelcome.

Morning. 56 degrees and some air movement. Humidity gauge says 35% but my skin says way less than that indoors. While in Washington, I enjoyed not needing to slather myself in moisturizer every morning.

Natchitoches: NAk uh tuhsh, all run together with the t closer to a d than a crisp t. I called the local library to make sure. Had family there for about thirty years, all gone now.

Appalachia in the southern end of the region: ap pa LATCH ah. In the upper end (according to a friend in PA) ap pa ...

Just into afternoon. Spent all morning recording word pronunciations and locating accent and dialect examples for the three folks doing the audio recording for Days of Sun and Shadow . These are the same three who did the first book. Mostly they did a beautiful job, but tripped up on some of the ...

Windy morning, clouds, 58 degrees. We'll see if those thunderstorms materialize.

Morning. Partly cloudy, 39 degrees, if there is air movement, I can't detect it from here.

Morning. Came home to an already overgrown garden and plants that usually don't leaf out until May. On top of no water, we're probably going to get a reset of spring when Earl the Wyoming weather god suddenly decides to revert to normal conditions in about three weeks.

Currently sunny, 49 degrees ...

(Stumbles in at 5:30 p.m., bleary-eyed and fresh off the road.) Sunshine and lollypops everywhere. Good to be home.

Morning. Fifty degrees and sunny in Coeur d'Alene. Yes, I left yesterday morning and quickly discovered someone had tried to make a purchase on my credit card and credit card company had blocked it. Not convenient when one is 1400 miles from home, but I'm managing. Highway 12 across the Cascades is ...

Morning. Last day with daughter and family on this trip. 43 degrees, high of 66 predicted. Low tide at 2:37 p.m. Hoping for a chance to make one more trip down to the beach. Tomorrow's goal is Couer d'Alene, Livingston the next day, home after that.

Stitches? Poor Tom. What did I miss? Or forgotten. My memory is not so good.

Got my days mixed up. Thought yesterday was Saturday since the easter egg hunt is today. That kinda means I have an extra day before I leave.

Morning. It is raining and 44 degrees.

I'm in the process of deciding how to get back home. Things are kind of a mess over Montana today, but Monday and Tuesday look hopeful.

Now it has quit raining and the sky is brightening a bit.

Sigh. Weather.

Sunshine today. Nice.

McDonalds to use internet to work or McD's something and internet access.

Didn't need internet, just a place to sit and write while daughter and granddaughter were in the hospital. It was too early for the library to be open.

Afternoon. Spent the morning working at a table in McDonalds while daughter and baby granddaughter had appointments. Various tests have been suggested for Baby, so they'll go off to Children's Hospital in Tacoma on Monday. I'm leaving for home on Monday, though I'll stay if daughter decides she'd ...

My inappropriate attempt at humor.

Completely appropriate!

Morning. Still in the low forties here. The early sunshine lied, but I may still walk down to the beach.

They say it's God's country, but I think he only takes his showers there.

And takes his dirt baths in Wyoming? Like the buffalo?

Assuming nothing changes and the roads are clear, I'm heading ...

Morning. Sunshine on one side of the house, clouds on the other. 42 degrees. I feel like I'm mildewing. Guess that and the moss in my hair will dissapate once I cross back into Wyoming next week. I hate to leave my daughter and family, but I've had enough of not being able to see through the trees.

Morning. 43 degrees, Cloudy. I haven't walked nearly enough since I've been here, between rain, baby, 4-year-old, and left knee. i can tell the difference, too.

Morning. Partly cloudy, 47 degrees.

Granddaughter seems much less severely affected by hyperx than her mother was. With luck, she'll grow out of most of it.

Ah, poor Tom. Not just pain, but inconvenience.

Daughter and family headed for the doctor first thing this morning. Baby girl had some blood in a couple of poopy diapers. Hoping it is nothing, but still very worrisome.

Today is my 71st birthday. Some how I thought the physical deterioration would ...

Morning. The vehicles were all iced over when I went out this morning about 7:30. Sun coming in the window right now, but I can see more rain clouds.

There is a weird glow comin in the windows this morning. I seem to recall a similar phenomenon long, long ago in a state very far away. 48 degrees.

I plant perennials in the fall and they overwinter well. All I have in the yard are perennials, biennials, and some self-seeding annuals. Annuals are ...

Afternoon- actually well toward evening. Been playing catch-up on things delayed by travel and arrival of baby. Still raining. Still chilly.

...as it probably won't get into the minus range any more this year...

Well, maybe no more negative temperatures, but you remember why first responders ...

Morning. 36 degrees and cloudy. Momma and baby girl come home this afternoon.

It's night, but here I am anyway. Baby Girl arrived shortly before 6:00 last night, weighing in at 9 and a half pounds. Had her 24 hour check an hour or so ago and all turned out normal. She did inherit hyperekplexia, a genetic thing that my daughter, other granddaughter, and I have. Not what we ...

Morning. 41 degrees, and look at that: it's raining. What a surprise.

Daughter and husband just left for the hospital for baby having. Hoping everything goes well for her.

My husband and kids all enjoyed eating raw stalks (sans leaves) of rhubard out in the garden. Just the thought sets my teeth ...

Morning. 52 degrees and (surprise!) raining.

Wilted salad at our house was salad greens, tomato, and crumbled bacon, lightly drizzled with melted bacon grease. No milk. We lived in beef country, not dairy. The first time (and last time) I saw milk used as salad dressing was when Roy's North Dakota ...

Bacon drippings improve almost anything. Did you ever have wilted salad?

48 degrees and precipitating that weird small-droplet stuff they have here. Have boots and raincoat, shall go outside later.

Morning. 50 degrees, raining, flood warning. At home, there's a red flag fire warning. Gonna be a long summer in Wyoming.

Thanks for the dvd suggestions. I'll try them all when I get home.

Three-quarters of my ancestors came from Ireland, either because they were native or because they stopped ...

Fifty degrees and raining on Harstine Island. 63 degrees in Natrona County, but is supposed to hit 80 by the weekend- in mid-March. Yep, move along, no climate change to be seen here.

I bought a small dvd player a while back but neither of my computers support it. Do either of y'all know if it ...

Morning. 43 degrees on Harstine Island, no wind, and some kind of wet stuff falling from a gray sky. White stuff is gone except in protected spots. My raincoat is, naturally, in the trunk of my car. I need to go for a walk today, wet stuff or no.

My sixteen-year-old grandson bowled a 300 game (or do I mean series?) yesterday. Three. Hundred. No pins left standing. By the time he bowled the last square, most of the people at the bowling alley stopped their own games to watch. The bowling alley owners gave him a card for a free dinner at a ...

Well, it's morning in Wyoming, anyway. Only 11:03 p.m. here in the PNW. Gorgeous drive along the north side of the Columbia River today, then a long wait in line on a sideroad after a landslide blocked both lanes of northbound I-5. I don't have a GPS or a detailed map, but cut off the freeway at the ...

Morning from Pocatello. 44 degrees and air movement not worth mentioning, unlike yesterday's trip across the southwestern quadrant of Wyoming. Holy cats. South Pass was especially envigorating.

I don't get much in the field anymore, but all the sheepherders I met back in the day were Mexican. Ran ...

Morning. Checking the weather and then I'm off to Pocatello. 45 degrees and a steady 50 mph wind that I'm going to be driving straight into. So much for gas mileage.

Tom, we'll do it one of these days, and if Mike can get up from AZ and Fearless Leader from Texas, we'll have a grand time. It's dumb ...

Morning. 27 degrees, air moving at less than 20 mph (translation for non-Wyoming people: still). A big winter storm moving into Montana and Idaho is fouling my plans for leaving for Washington on Sunday. Checked out the map, decided I can leave tomorrow morning, go south through Kemmerer then up to ...

Morning. Overcast, 66 degrees (SIXTY SIX), and looks like the wind has worn itself out for the time being. It's moving, but not much.

Javelinas ain't scared of no cactus spines- or much of anything else.

Morning. 52 degrees, 35 mph wind. Looks kinda clear, kinda not.

We had lunch with everyone in Yellowstone, then headed down the road to Clark. I recall folks talking about blowing snow/rain. But I've slept since them. You, Mr. Iron Butt, probably wouldn't notice a little thing like a summer ...

Morning. 48 degrees, sunny, wind around 40 mph.

My son cowboyed and worked for volunteer fire in Clark for several years. He said he watched one 100+ mph gust pick up a fifth-wheel horse trailer and set it down a few feet away. He and his family were living there when we had the rally in Red Lodge ...

Morning. 36 degrees, sunny, and the wind is howling.

Morning. Cloudy, 32 degrees, skiff of snow, and not much air movement.

Ha! Clever ostrich farmers. In the San Luis Valley of Colorado is a reptile rescue and bird sanctuary called Colorado Gators Reptile Park. Started out as a tilapia farm and opened to the public around 1990. Alligators and crocs ...

Morning. 50 degrees, sunny, 20 mph wind, more or less. Probably more. Wind is rarely less in Wyoming in March.

One wonders what makes a guy get up in the morning and say, "I think I'll belly flop onto a cactus today."

:-P A sunny morning in central Wyoming with 50 degrees and some gentle air movement.

That's interesting, Mike. I've eaten prickly pear fruit, but I'd have to be mighty hungry to snack on mesquite beans. Both proliferated around our house in Kingsville, TX.

In college, my graduate ecology class ...

Morning. 37 degrees, cloudy, no air movement. There are freaking jonquils blooming in the yard. In 48 years in Wyoming, I have never anything bloom this early.

Yeah, they're technically pronghorn, and buffalo are technically bison, but mostly people just say antelope/goats and buffalo.

Roy said ...

Morning. 48 degrees and a promise of rain, which I will believe when I see it.

We've had goats, the domestic kind. I'm not a big fan.

Morning, and a happy March to everyone. 54 degrees, air is moving gently, partly cloudy.

Mike, I am not even going to think about how your pygmy goat managed that particular feat.

I am, however, going to use the rattlesnake/goat analogy at some point. The antelope in question were two does. They ...

Morning. 42 degrees, wind about 20 mph, looks like it might be sunny out there. Sure doesn't seem much like the last day of February.

Are you talking about goat goats or speed goats? We once watched a couple of the former stomp the daylights out of a rattler.

Just noticed we're moving in on a two ...

Morning, gentlemen. 44 degrees. Wind is blowing, sun is shining, supposed to reach 44 later today. Yesterday was my husband's 77th birthday. I got him the Complete Calvin and Hobbs Collection. It arrived just as we were leaving the house to go out to my son's place for dinner. Perfect timing ...

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