The Snow Arrives Early

With the light rain continuing off and on today, while the temperatures that started at 36° this morning were dropping faster than I thought they would ... we didn't do much but stay inside. As you see, Stella and Heidi knew what was about to happen outside and were not interested in doing anything more than sleeping.

Heidi got her exercise in moving each time she woke up, from the couch to her chair and back again. I can't tell you how many times she did that in a five hour period.

Late in the afternoon I could hear the wind howling outside and the slight rattling noise from the storm windows. I knew something was going on but nothing was suppose to happen until after midnight tonight. What a surprise it was to see it snowing 30 minutes after I had checked the weather outside. It will hit a low of 15° tonight and we might wake up to 5" of new snow by tomorrow morning.

I went to check my favorite weather radar online, Intellicast. For some reason it kept going to a Wunderground website which is one of the bookmarks I have on my bar at the top of my screen. It took me three or four tries before I got the message from Wunderground that they had merged with Intellicast.

It told me I would enjoy those same radar maps I did with Intellicast, that nothing would change ... but ... after multiple attempts to bring my local radar back and seeing nothing like I had with Intellicast, I quit trying  ... I looked at WeatherBug and will probably use their weather radar from now on.

I tried using the flash to capture the blowing snow with the dark background of the woods but that didn't work, the flash never turned itself on.

This is what I found without the flash.

Stella spent a few minutes looking for that perfect spot to dump her tanks. It was getting much colder with the wind blowing as I stood at the corner of the house waiting for her to finish.

She finished and then trotted toward the house again. I wonder how long that routine will last before she chooses another path home?

I might watch another basketball game tonight or I will turn this into an official movie night. It doesn't look like the hounds are going to move much more than they did all afternoon. We might see some great potential early morning pictures tomorrow on our walk unless Stella decides it's too cold for her. I'm not sure I can carry a 83 pound bloodhound home from the middle of the field.  :)

Snowing harder right now in 'the tropics' of Southern Indiana.

Heidi Checks Out The Howling Winds

Sitting at the computer I felt a gust of wind so strong I thought the roof was coming off the house or we all were going flying. I wish those strong winds from the SW were blowing warmer air but it is freezing cold air. Even Heidi was fooled as she completed her lap around the house after lunch ... yet her nose explored the yard by the inch as she walked.

This is my 2nd post of the day. I am not going to type the number of each post but just to point out that in the past when I post more than once per day, for some strange reason visitors don't look at both posts in the same day but at the latest one. Makes me wonder sometimes why I have the front page set up the way I do.

After 11 months eating Wholesome Sportmix dog food her skin problems have been the best she has had since 2014. That food is made by the same company that makes Earthborn Holistic grain free food. We tried all of their grain free foods before switching to their 'generic' kibble ... it did nothing to improve her skin like this chicken meal kibble has worked.

Plus last summer she had gained her lost weight back. As has Stella. All the hounds eat the same food and all three hounds have to softest coats they have ever had. Bravo to Wholesome Sportmix.

One of our local hawks wanted to let Stella know she had her eye out on the hounds. With it being so cold all Stella wanted was to get back inside for her afternoon siesta.

Many years ago when my 89 year old father was a teenager, there was a path from the top of my driveway that went down between the two large trees, through the water and out to the country road. Every since then, every home owner of this house has watched the south part of the field sink over time with underground water from the field behind us.

It's only January but the 2018 Burn Pile is way behind last year's amount of tree limbs that are burned every spring and fall. That is actually a good thing.

The wind is howling today in 'the tropics' of Southern Indiana.