The Hogsty

Morning. Sunny, 28 degrees, 20 mph wind.

Over the last ten or fifteen years, mention of Pearl Harbor Day has drifted away, let alone observation. I suppose once the generation of WWII children drift away, that memory will become irrelevent except in history books.

Morning. 30 degrees, cloudy, not much for air movement. Glad to hear your skin is in good shape, Mike.

Birds did that with pyrocantha berries in central California. My mom used to set the cat in the window to frighten them away from the bush. Huh. Hadn't thought about that in a few decades.

Morning, y'all. 30 degrees, air movement pretty slow, though that's supposed to change later today. Overcast, spitting bits of snow.

Thanks, Tom. It was a pleasant surprise. I didn't expect to see any until sometime next year.

Did the pigs ever ger drunk on windfall apples that had fermented? That ...

Thanks, Mike.

Just for the record, I hate pigs and have not a single qualm about having them turned into bacon. Well, okay. Maybe a little qualm, but I was ready to do it myself yesterday. Went out to my son's place to feed animals, and one of the porkers pushed through the gate when I went to fill ...

Morning. 21 degrees, but with a 25 mph wind, it feel a lot colder.

Got my royalty statement last night which shows more income from writing this year than I used to make at either the museum or the law firm. I also have an article in Wyoming Wildlife this month, but I haven't see it yet.

Morning. Cloudy, still, 24 degrees but sure feels and looks colder.

I had a 69 VW bug when I moved to Laramie. One morning, I turned the key and the thing roared like I had the accelerator to the floor. Scared me. I'm not mechanical, had no idea what was wrong, and was a couple of miles from work ...

Morning. 30 degrees and 30 mph wind. A delightful December day.

My first winter in Laramie, temperatures dropped to around -50 one night. I got up the next morning to go to school and did what we always did in south Texas and central California if there was frost on the car window: poured a pan of ...

Morning. 10 degrees, bright without being sunny, air is moving, but not as fast as predicted for later today.

Happy December 1st.

Morning. Six degrees with a whopping high of 20 predicted.

Morning. -7 degrees according to the official weather report and 3 degrees according to our weather station, which I think is getting wonky. I ordered a new one for us and one for my son and daughter-in-law. The air might be stirring, but not too much right now.

I don't think I'll bring out the ...

Morning. 43 degrees, cloudy, about 15 mph wind, snow changing to rain later this evening.

I ventured out to the early Black Fridy sales twice in the early 2000s, both times to buy a snowboard for my son at less than half price. I am not an enthusiastic shopper, but I was impelled into a store at 5 ...

Afternoon. Getting cold tonight and colder tomorrow. Hope everyone is enjoying their holiday. Ours went well yesterday. No one can cook like my daughter-in-law.

Afternoon. 33 degrees with a gentle wind. I don't know how I screwed up a coconut pecan pie that I've made two dozen times, but I did. It is soooo ugly that I'm torn between leaving it at home and baking another or taking this one for laughs.

Morning, y'all. 21 degrees here, no wind to speak of, sunny. Supposed to cloud up and precipitate tonight, but probably will be just enough to make it hard to get down the road to the ranch tomorrow for Thanksgiving.

Oh, Tom, I am no where near the polishing stage. This is definitely first draft ...

Well, it's still morning. I slept later today than I have in years, maybe decades. I've been hitting the writing hard, 45,000+ words since the first of November and that much staring at the computer is about to do me in. I should finish this draft in the next two days, then I am shutting it down ...

Morning. 39 degrees, 10 mph wind if the weather site is to be believed. Weather Underground, my go to site for a quarter of a century, has been messed up for weeks now. I discovered the site back when I was a legal assistant and trying to determine the weather on a day an accident occurred. Right ...

Morning. 33 degrees and pretty still. Around here, people wander around looking for rocks because they like rocks. I know an inordinate number of rock hounds, including my husband. He says the best hunting now is in the backyards of old rock hounds.

Morning. 34 degrees and still. Sunshine on my shoulders- or would be if I stepped outside.

I always liked Tucumcari, partially because it is such a good name. We stayed there a time or two. Lots of feedlots in the area back then. The waitress at the cafe told us when the mist from the river ...

It's a foggy morning at 33 degrees and no wind. Finally looks a little more like November.

Flagstaff. We used to drive through there on our way from California to Arkansas and back. It was always, always either snowing or raining in Flagstaff. Over the course of those years, the Destructive Powers ...

Morning, gentlemen. 39 degrees and a fairly enthusiastic breeze this morning, though I'm not sure I'd call it wind quite yet. No rain. No snow. No nothing. On one hand, it's easy to get around. On the other, it is getting pretty late in the year without snow. It'll probably dump on us Wednesday next ...

Morning. 44 degrees, 20 mph wind, and still some babble about rain, though I think that is just wistful thinking.

Morning. 46 degrees, 20 mph with with higher gusts, and not a single sign of those "possible showers."

Almost got my words in for the day. Another hour and I can get up and do something else.

Morning. 37 degrees, still, and no sign of the predicted rain.

Our son is a city fire fighter. The fire fighters once did a video of dropping a turkey into a deep fryer located in a three-sided shed. It was a good thing the fire department was standing by.

Morning, 54 degrees, 25 mph wind. Seriously, what month is this?

Given the emphasis on consumerism this time of year, perhaps Chrisgiving would be more appropriate than Thankmas. Except for gifts for grandchildren, we ignore the Santa aspects of the season. Everyone is going to be off the Wednesday ...

Morning. 55 degrees with the wind howling along at town street speeds (30 mph except for the occasional driver who always has to blast along doing 40-45).

I assume Thermop lost power yesterday, too. Ours went off and came back on two or three times. The Dave Johnson Power Plant over in Glenrock ...

Morning. 46 degrees with some wind moving small stuff around. Meteorologists can't decide if snow is coming this weekend or not.

My daughter let her four-year-old daughter put up the tree the first of the month. I may balance the universe by ignoring Xmas all together this year. I did order candles ...

Morning. 43 degrees and relatively still, at least in my yard.

The ring of tinnitus sounds throughout my family. I'm listening to it in my left ear at this moment, but it generally goes away after a while. My so is plagued it all the time, as was my mother.

I'm about ready for some snow. It is ...

Good show but as close to a WW11 London bombing raid as I can imagine.

That may be the best description of a loud concert that I've ever read.

'Tis a nice sunny morning at around 45 degrees and enough wind to render it a bit chillier.

Thank you for asking.Things could've been much worse, but they are bad enough.

Daughter is struggling with severe hip and back pain following the accident. She is a no-nonsense former cop, but is also having issues with driving after dark and similar anxiety-related issues that arise following a ...

Morning. 45 degrees with a wind chill knocking it down to 36 degrees.

Still no white stuff. I'm about ready for one of those days when it's snowy outside and we can turn off the phones, light a fire in the woodstove, and pretend we're a hundred miles from anyone.

Morning. 20 degrees and sunny.

Talked to my daughter yesterday. Her back and hips are hurting pretty bad, everything else is sore. Her pregnancies are hard enough due to scoliosis, and getting hit didn't help any. Granddaughter and au pair seem to be sore but fine

Morning. 34 degrees, gentle breeze. Much as hate to use the S Word, we could use some.

Yep, happened up in Olympia. Daughter was sitting still at a stop sign and got broad-sided by someone coming off 101 freeway. Not too worried about her being found at fault. Apparently, cop just had the car towed ...

My daughter called. Some stupid little tiny lady who couldn’t see over the steering wheel came off 101 at full freeway speed and broadsided Rosie’s Suburu on the driver’s side as she was sitting at a stop sign. Knocked her and her pregnant tummy sideways into the console. She says ther side hurts ...

Morning, y'all. 37 degrees, sunny, and a stiff wind blowing from the southwest, as usual. My favorite weather site, Weather Underground, has gone wonky on me the last couple of days. Despite listing the high for the day as 54, it shows the current temperature being 66. un-uh. Not even close.

Your ...

Morning. 50 degrees, overcast, showers possible, breezy. It's beginning to look a lot like November, except for the trees that are still clinging to gold leaves.

Making decent progress on Book III. I've written 12,745 words since the first of the month, ith a goal of 50,000 words by the end of the ...

Morning. 42 degrees and sunny.

Off to get my teeth cleaned this morning. The hygienist used an ultrasound device that does a great cleaning job, but the sound of the thing is enough to peel the skin off my eardrums. I'm not looking forward to it.

Could happen-hope it doesn't.

Sunny, windy, and 65 degrees in central Wyoming. On the 4th day of the write 50,000 words in a month, I'm a fifth of the way to goal. Suspect there is a wall looming in my literary future, but I'm enjoying the momentum while it lasts.

Morning. 30 degrees, sunny, and so far still, though that will change later.

No doubt a substantial part of the reason the suicide rate is so high in Wyoming is winter and wind. Wind literally drives some people nuts, but I love it. My daughter moved to Washington to get away from wind; says she ...

And rolling in at the end of the day is me. 57 degrees, beautiful fall day. Spent several hours writing this morning, then drove my grandson out to the ranch. Since my services weren't required with butchering chores (did I ever time my arrival right), I took the long route home through Bessemer ...

Morning. 50 degrees with rain predicted.

Last night was perfect weather for Halloween trick or treaters- a condition almost unheard of for Natrona County. Our rural area was silent as usual, but I drove my grandson over to meet friends in east Casper where it looked like a door-to-door carnival ...

Morning. 28 degrees, partly cloudy. It's going to be a bit chilly tonight for the trick or treaters, but given we usually get more snow on Halloween than Thanksgiving, just having a clear evening is a good thing. Half the time when my kids were growing up, we went out into blowing snow and freezing ...

Good morning, world. 27 degrees and not supposed to get much over 50 today.

Today is as good a day as any to prune some deadwood out of our smaller trees, too. Roy is going to show me how to use the power saw on the thicker branches. I've always preferred my acoustic tools, but I've reached the age ...

Morning. 23 degrees and sunny. At this moment, not even the rosebush leaves are trembling, but 20-30 mph winds are predicted later today.

What kind of trees do you have? Our silver poplars actually turned gold this year, which doesn't happen very often. Usually a freeze catches them while they're ...

Morning. Snowed last night. Currently 23 degrees with just enough air movement to stir the roses. Other parts of the country would call it wind, but not us.

This first snow came late enough in October that the silver poplars have turned gold. Usually the cold catches them with green leaves and ...

Morning. 47 degrees. Saw rain last night, but if it snowed, it melted PDQ.

Have to share this before the algorithms change and I'm back out in left field:

Book I's current Amazon status:

Best Sellers Rank: #463 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
#1 in Historical Fiction (Kindle Store ...

Morning. 58 degrees and a nice stiff wind that's going to get stiffer as the day goes along.

I wonder if those roses were the Rosa foetida variety called Persian Yellow that we have here. A common variety of the same speicies is called Austrian Copper. Both are beautiful, hardy roses that are a ...

Morning. 57 degrees, breezy, and sunny.

Have you run a magnet over your digestive system to see if it sticks anywhere?

You're welcome. I'm always happy to talk about roses, though I'm far from an expert. Most of the rose advice I find in books and online doesn't take into account the elevation ...

Morning. 28 degrees and clear as a bell.

The roses aren't dormant yet, so they still need some water. One still had blooms day before yesterday, though they're probably the last of the year. As long as roses are green, I water them once every week or so. Don't want to give them too much, but don't ...

Good morning from Natrona County where it is currently 33 degrees. Today's big plans include deep-watering the roses and working on page proofs for Book II. The heady excitement of life in The Big City never ends.

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