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Spring Storms

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No this post isn’t about exotic dancers despite the title, its about snow and it’s ability to fall in the spring catching you kind of unaware even though you saw the storm forecast on TV, or on your computer, or even by the more reliable method of your neighbor saying “Hey its going to snow tonight.” That’s how I found out about todays storm. I stopped  at the neighbors and Sophie said “Hey it s going to snow tonight.” and sure enough here it is. Six inches, all over the yard, the cars, the steps, (you have to shovel that stuff you know) and more importantly the ground that surrounds our little ranch. We’ve been in a drought here in the northern mountains for a long, long time and it has been way too dry, the kind of dry where you don’t even want to get in a fight with your spouse because the heat might set the woods on fire, kind of dry. Lest you think I’m whining about shoveling snow, well maybe a little, think again, because I’m not. In the immortal words of one of our ex-presidents I repeat his phrase “Bring it on!” as I head out the door hoping the shovel handle is sticking out of the snow so I can get at those steps. The buffalo are a lot like me, shaggy, big, hairy and they are also like that Honey Badger of YouTube fame, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nggAj0cxLro (warning off-color language) they just don’t care. They don’t care about snow, about you standing in their way, about whether the calendar says spring or not, they just put their heads down and plow through it. Just like I’m going to do, just as soon as I find that shovel.

We Interrupt our Regular…….

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As you are no doubt aware from all the recent attention by the Nation’s press, the World Headquarters of our Media Empire is located in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. The Royal viewing room, um, I meant the office, looks East where every morning the sun comes up and starts our day. Things may be different where you live but that’s how it works here. Yesterday it snowed for the entire day and although it didn’t accumulate all that much it did cover our grounds completely. The Staff in their usual surly manner began the task of sweeping the snow off our dirt driveway. As you might imagine there was much good-natured grumbling but they knew it was a necessary task that they needed to complete if they wanted to eat. But that’s not the real story, the real story concerns the incredible cloud cover that sometimes happens after one of our storms. A meteorologist could tell you the scientific name for clouds like this but unfortunately, due to budget restraints and sequestration we had to let ours go. Looking out over the surrounding area you see a sea of clouds under which are entire towns, lots of cows, some people riding bikes, the transmitting towers of the world’s atomic clock, (seriously every time your computer updates it time, the signal came from a little pulse sent from the towers near the World Headquarters of our Media Empire) and etc. Under there it is still dark and cold, they won’t see the sun for another hour or so until the cloud cover is burned off by the thermonuclear reaction above. But meanwhile above all that there is an absolute riot of shifting shapes, entire mountain ranges build up and are dissolved in moments, seas form and huge waves are cast forth that never reach a shore, and once in a while when we’ve been particularly good, a rainbow begins to form, like the one to the right of the sunburst. This isn’t RainbowNomics as such (see previous post)  because we didn’t order this one, it is simply a gift from the universe. It is faint to be sure, but it is there and we are thankful. Normally we do not interrupt our regular posting, but we wanted to share this special event with you, why?, well, because we love you of course.