Thursday, 10/8/09

Today's weather certainly wasn't what we expected it to be. We had a 100% chance of rain and thundershowers were supposed to start early this morning, but rain never happened. The morning was overcast, but there was a fair amount of blue sky around this afternoon. The photo above was taken up by the gate on our afternoon walk.

Since we'd already gotten the van mostly loaded in anticipation of the rain, today was pretty much of a piddly sort of day.

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Thursday, 10/8/09

A Beautiful Saturday

We're on a roll: Two beautiful fall days in a row.

Our skies clouded up some during the middle of the afternoon, but cleared again by sunset. Jo did some weeding in our fall garden bed in addition to unloading her kiln, glazing pots and getting the kiln loaded for a glaze firing. I cranked up the lawnmower. Mowing was slow going out in the garden due to the tall grass that was still damp. I had to set my mower up to cut as high as it would cut and make one pass -- then, lower to the normal level and mow again. Having to use that method meant I didn't nearly get finished mowing the garden. I did also mow the clothesline area where the grass was neither as tall nor as damp.

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A Beautiful Saturday

Journal: Friday, 11/28/08

►  Out of the shop on onto the computer. (Cloudy, calm and 50ºF/10ºC @ midnight)

►  One eye open and working on the second. (Mostly cloudy, light north wind and 51ºF/10ºC @ 10:00 AM)

►  Had I remembered to open the damper on the wood stove before lighting a fire the house would not now be full of smoke. Doh! (Overcast, calm and 51ºF/10ºC @ 1:00 PM)


►  Gray skies prevail.  The sun made a couple of feeble attempts at breaking through the clouds, but never really came close.  (50ºF/10ºC @ 4:30 PM)

►  No more bulldozer work done today, but we are not yet completely safe.  The dozer is still parked up by the gate.

►  A couple of days worth of funky weather in our forecast.  At least the temp is supposed to remain above freezing.  (46ºF/7ºC @ 7 PM)

►  Overcast, calm and 43ºF/6ºC @ midnight.



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Journal: Friday, 11/28/08

Bear Creek Valley

Low clouds filled Bear Creek Valley when we left for Fayetteville last Friday. We were above the clouds up here on the ridge of Star Mountain. Too bad we couldn't find a place without a fence from which to photograph the valley. (Photo by Jo.)

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Bear Creek Valley