Snow! and Stuff

It's snowing. Big fat flakes. We sure do need it. All the plowed fields have been silently looking at the sky as if to say, "thirsty, thirsty."

I downloaded the current weather forecast from NOAA. Thought I'd share it with you.

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834 AM MST SAT DEC 5 2009

Rest Of Today...Increasing clouds. Slight chance of snow late in the morning...then chance of snow in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 20s. Northwest winds 10 to 20 mph. Chance of precipitation 40 percent. Lowest wind chill readings 5 below to 5 above zero late in the morning.

Tonight...Cloudy with a 40 percent chance of snow. Colder. Lows around 1 below. North winds 10 to 20 mph. Wind chill readings 10 below to 20 below zero.

Sunday...Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of light snow. Cold. Highs around 9. North winds 5 to 15 mph. Lowest wind chill readings 15 below to 25 below zero in the morning.

Sunday Night...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of light snow. Lows around 9 below. Northeast winds 5 to 15 mph.

Monday...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of light snow. Highs around 6. Northeast winds 5 to 15 mph.

Monday Night...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of light snow. Lows around 11 below.

Tuesday...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of light snow. Highs around 4.

Tuesday Night...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of light snow. Lows around 7 below.

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Kathryn is on her way to Billings to do some shopping. I worry about her driving in weather like this. She doesn't see well, and, you know me, I worry.

she has to go the 120 or so miles to Billings, because there are almost no stores left in Miles City. We got a Wal-Mart.

There were hundreds of geese landing in the fields near here last night. Maybe as many as a thousand. I'm not sure whether they were migrating, or just the locals settling in for the night. Probably the former. Anyway, it was spectacular. The sky was darkened with them. Like the blackbirds used to be in the San Joaquin Valley before the farmers poisoned them off. I'm not blaming the farmers, they have a crop to get in, and the birds cause millions of dollars in damages. So, something has to give.

The score now stands at Farmers 1 - Blackbirds 0.

And we laughed at Rachel Carson.

It is still gamebird season here, but I didn't even bring our the shotgun. I'm not too fond of goose, so what's the use of shooting something that one is not going to eat? I am a hunter. I think it is in the primal nature of nearly every male Homo Sapien. BUT, I eat what I kill. I often go hunting with a camera. The chase, the trying to outwit prey... Primal. I also don't believe in catch-and-release fishing. I love to go fishing, but I also believe in only catching my limit, and eating my catch. I do not believe in maiming God's creatures for sport. After all, "sport" shooting is what caused the extinction of the Passenger Pigeon.

See, I told you I sometimes rant.

Meanwhile...

My printer died. It has never worked too well, so I had to buy a new one. They are both scanner-copier-printer combinations. Now I will be able to send Mama pictures of our new place.

I tried to include a photo, but haven't figured out how to do that...yet...

Meanwhile, I don't have to go anywhere, so I am going to enjoy the quiet.

Agape
Lee