Chilly

I woke up this morning to 35 degree temperatures, that must be what all that wind was blowing in from Canada, cold air. The wind has finally died down to a more reasonable 10 miles per hour this morning, but I'm still hesitant to put the flag up until I see what happens as the day heats up. Yesterday winds reached 38 mph on the one cup anemometer, who knows what it might have been on the 3 cup model. A more telling indicator was the rain gauge. The gauge works on the tipping bucket principle. Like a teeter totter when one bucket fills it tips to empty and the other bucket fills.

 Yesterday, without a drop of rain, Mel's shaking in the wind we managed to record almost 9 inches of rain just by having the teeter totter bounce back and forth and that was with the leveling jacks in place.

Today we are going to sit back and wait for the warm up before venturing out. I might work on the inch of dust that has been sent to me from Arizona and is covering every flat surface. This to shall pass and we will still enjoy the good life.