The temp was a little better at dog-walking time (30 degrees) and a great horned owl was sounding off nearby for most of the walk. S'pose he was saying how much he'd like to taste a hot little dog?
We work at Artisans this morning, and tomorrow morning, too, due to a swap. Plus, we have a Mancos On the Move meeting this afternoon to review the Mancos Melt, start getting our act together for Spring Into Mancos and do some long-range planning for Mancos Days.
No new pics today. Haven't been taking many and the laptop, which we download into, went to the hospital for several days. Just had a new topcase installed and it was apparently faulty ... the cursor would freeze, or it became magnetic, picking up file icons and carrying them around the desktop, dropping them wherever it chose. Great way to totally disorganize your files!
Between "work" and some meetings and a couple of social events, we hope we'll get time to get to the Ag Expo, maybe Saturday afternoon. It's always fun to see the booths, chat with friends and neighbors and see the critters and the tractors ... I always still get a kick out of seeing the latest farm equipment. I guess it's the old farm boy in me; tractors today are sure a far cry from the butt-busting Case and Allis Chalmers I used to drive on Uncle Dick's farm!
By the end of yesterday, the driveway had mostly dried up and birds were picking around in the bare grass in the front yard. Still, there's lots of snow over much of the land, and it's not over yet! I recently realized I posted a picture taken on April 16 last year with about two inches of fresh snow covering everything!
Ice has formed on the Propanel roof like I've never seen in the 15 years since the house was built. We hear rumbling crashes as multi-hundred-pound slabs of ice slide off the north side; there's still a 3 1/2-foot Propanel pile obscuring the bottom half of the bathroom window. I tried yesterday to knock down what must be a 500-pound layer of ice and snow hanging off a NE-facing trough in the roof over the apartment, couldn't budge it. Hope it doesn't damage anything when it finally drops.
Light begins to tinge the east ... not adjusted to Daylight Savings Time yet! tv
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