7/9 #4
hope the fur baby feels better soon! Molly's only 2 and hasn't been sick but I've been a dog person my and life and know what it's like. Here's a smile for you from Molly
Thanks and thank Molly for the smile. Zipper is an old lady and has lots of ups and downs but, mostly, she's just a big (90 pounds) dumb Dopie (my version of Doberman) who usually has a smile on her face. We took her outside an awful lot today and I think she is cleared out now, so hopefully tomorrow will be "normal." Oh oh oh... weather report for this evening (because it was fun and weird):
While outside with Zip, I was watching this huge dark mass to the west of us, actually paying more attention to it than the dog because it looked very threatening. Wifey told me when we came back in that she had just been online looking at the Doppler and there was a huge supercell coming right at us. Right at us? Yes, she said (and I find this insulting) that NWS said it was moving directly east along highway 212, that it had high winds and 2" hail, but
no one needed to worry because the area it was traveling through was all rural. What? You don't need to worry because it is all rural? And, like
no one lives out here? OK, we're not a city of 100,000 weenies, but damn, man, don't ranchers count at all? Kiss my rosy red ...., National Weather Service!!! In any case, I did my Star Crock imitation and initialized the deflector shields to maximum, or something like that (I envisioned a wedge that would split the weather and make it go around us). As long as I am focused and putting energy into it, this usually works. In any case, the supercell got within about 5 miles, headed straight at us, then suddenly veered around us to the northwest. The lightning show was awesome, but none on our property. We did get downrush winds about 40mph, which dropped the temperature like a rock (from 100F to 75F) and only a few pitter patters of rain, so the baby chicks in the corral, who did not run for the coop, were in no danger of being killed by that large hail that pelted our neighbors to the north. Wifey went back to check the Doppler again and said that it clearly had split and the nasty went north of us and the light rain went south of us and the whole thing appeared to be breaking apart now, like it ran into a brick wall or something.

What can I say? You may choose to believe it or not. Your choice. (there are a few of you who "know")