An Overnight Snow Storm

We've been experiencing some really warm days lately, temps were in the high 50's and high 60's even.  Everyone was thinking of Spring and gardens when in came a brief snowstorm overnight.  We do need the moisture so it's nice to see some 8 inches of snow.

The dogs have fun in it and hopefully the dry ground will soak it up. We have had a very dry winter here. Just another case of anomalous weather patterns.

Regardless of the conditions, Tuffy the Border Collie insists on me throwing her some balls. So I did thinking she wouldn't be able to find them.  She did.  :)

She is holding a tennis ball in this first picture.  She really had to dig for it, too. 

They tell us to expect another inch or two today then tomorrow it should be up to 56 degrees again.

Believe me, you don't want to be underneath those trees when the snow start falling off.  It's quite a wet surprise.

Not so easy to find those balls out there.  heh

Magnificent Sunrises

This is such an amazing area of our country to be in - high in the northern New Mexico mountains.  At just over 7500 feet elevation, the deep blue of the daytime sky, the millions of stars at night.  Due to our altitude and to the clean, clear atmosphere we see a lot more than those in the coastal cities and foothills.  I used to go to the mountains west of San Diego to the San Diego Astronomy Association observing site.  It was beautiful there and at 4000 feet it was clear.  At least I thought so until moving to Mora, NM!  Wow, the clarity and clearness and beauty of the skies here far surpasses anything I noticed when living in SoCal.

Yesterday's and today's pre-sunrises were awesome.  The whole sky was red and other colors; the whole trailer was shaded in colors as the sunrise started to cast it's beauty in our skies.

Splitting Wood

Figured I had better post something so you wouldn't think I'd kicked the bucket... :)

As I get older [I'm 71 now]  I need more exercise.  Living in the mountains there are always opportunities for exercise. Soon it will be planting and gardening times.  Right now it's splitting wood for the wood stoves.  However, we are splitting next years wood, not this years wood.

This years wood is stacked in the background and the new piles of split wood waiting to be stacked in the foreground.

Large and knotty

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Lots more to do yet.