It's that time of year! We have our first Pineapple Express going on right now. All of those warm winds from Hawaii swing up here for a visit to our beautiful state and they come with a vengeance! You can hear it coming, roaring down the mountains and when it hits the house, it sounds exactly like a freight train passing. Right now, we have a steady wind of about 25-30mph gusting to 75 mph or so and it went on most of the night. Our huge, ~300 pound, 'we can feed and army', stainless steel grill rolled across the deck last night. Thank goodness it didn't move into the yard. I wonder if our reindeer are still in the raspberry patch? Too dark to tell now. These are the days I just hope all of our shingles stay on!
And to top it off, it is 42 degrees at our house. The tiny, tiny dusting of snow in our yard is gone. The ice on the deck is gone (which is good!). Of course, we are supposed to have rain turning to snow later today but this eliminates any skiing for another couple of weeks.
We are coming up to the shortest days of the year now. Only 14 left before we start having more sunlight signifying summer is on its' way! Of course one of the best things about this time of the year is I get to see most of the sunrises and sunsets. The other day we had a sunset so spectacular, I had to email my friends in their offices to go look out the window. The setting sun was a giant ball of bright orange coloring the low hanging clouds an amazing hue. Other days, the alpenglow is spectacular. Well worth the few minutes away from the computer.
Time to go see what treasures blew into our yard last night. Maybe we have new lawn furniture now!
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