Morning. Woke up to snow on the ground. Currently 26 degrees with snow showers passing through. Yeah, Casper to Ocala to Harstine Island in less than a week is a little disorienting. I'd planned my schedule better than this, but stuff happens.
I haven't heard the audio book yet. The publisher sent ...
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- Fri Apr 04, 2025 10:54 am
- Forum: The Hog Pen
- Topic: Friday April 4th
- Replies: 2
- Views: 149
- Thu Apr 03, 2025 10:32 am
- Forum: The Hog Pen
- Topic: Thursday April 3rd
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1044
Re: Thursday April 3rd
Morning. I'm baa-aaack from the foreign land of Florida. Gorgeous weather. Only started getting too hot the day I left.
Currently 30 degrees and reasonably still air. It's 90 in Ocala.
I leave Sunday for Harstine Island, WA to see my daughter and family for a few weeks. I'm driving out. Thought ...
Currently 30 degrees and reasonably still air. It's 90 in Ocala.
I leave Sunday for Harstine Island, WA to see my daughter and family for a few weeks. I'm driving out. Thought ...
- Mon Mar 24, 2025 9:25 am
- Forum: The Hog Pen
- Topic: Monday March 24th
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3329
Re: Monday March 24th
Morning. Howling wind at about 40 mph, but it's 48 degrees. Plane boards in about 3 hours. I am very grateful for not looking at a drive to Denver. It's considerably more money to fly out of Casper, but by the time you factor in a 4.5 hour drive, the hassle and expense of parking, and a possible ...
- Sun Mar 23, 2025 9:07 am
- Forum: The Hog Pen
- Topic: Sunday March 23rd
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3711
Re: Sunday March 23rd
Morning. Went to my son's ranch yesterday for a belated equinox celebration. Had to leave about 5:30 in a thick snowstorm that put down a considerable amount of moisture. At this point in time, it's all going to grass.
Currently 25 degrees, 15 mph wind, and snow on the ground. Tomorrow will be ...
Currently 25 degrees, 15 mph wind, and snow on the ground. Tomorrow will be ...
- Sat Mar 22, 2025 8:54 am
- Forum: The Hog Pen
- Topic: Saturday March 22nd
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2650
Re: Saturday March 22nd
Greetings, earthlings. 39 degrees, 40 mph wind and rising, kinda cloudy, kinda sunny, rain predicted later today. Bulbs popping up everywhere. I planted a lot of them last fall.
- Fri Mar 21, 2025 8:45 am
- Forum: The Hog Pen
- Topic: Friday March 21st
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2799
Re: Friday March 21st
Morning. Happy second day of spring. 33 degrees, 20 mph wind. We do spring a little different here than a lot of places
- Thu Mar 20, 2025 9:48 am
- Forum: The Hog Pen
- Topic: Thursday March 20th
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3073
Re: Thursday March 20th
Morning. 37 degrees. 40 mph air. Right now that trip to Florida doesn't sound half bad.
- Wed Mar 19, 2025 8:52 am
- Forum: The Hog Pen
- Topic: Wednesday March 19th
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3650
Re: Wednesday March 19th
Morning. 26 degrees, cloudy, foggy, snow on the ground. Trying to decide if we just heard a wood pecker. Haven't seen the first robin up here yet, which is about the latest first we've gone in the 45 years we've been in central Wyoming. I heard someone saw a robin in town, but they aren't up here ...
- Tue Mar 18, 2025 11:25 am
- Forum: The Hog Pen
- Topic: Tuesday March 18th
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3933
Re: Tuesday March 18th
Morning. 37 degrees and I think it is cloudy above the fog. About 15 mph wind. Increased wind and snow predicted later today. Must be March.
- Mon Mar 17, 2025 12:19 pm
- Forum: The Hog Pen
- Topic: Monday March 17th
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3607
Re: Monday March 17th
Happy St Paddy's Day. May the roof above us never fall in, and may we friends beneath it never fall out.
Windy at 30 mph, partly cloudy, 54 degrees.
Windy at 30 mph, partly cloudy, 54 degrees.
- Sun Mar 16, 2025 10:29 am
- Forum: The Hog Pen
- Topic: Sunday March 16th
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4960
Re: Sunday March 16th
Morning. Windy at over 40 mph. Sunny.
Anyone who doesn't think writing is a real job shoulda hung out with me yesterday.
Anyone who doesn't think writing is a real job shoulda hung out with me yesterday.
- Sat Mar 15, 2025 8:48 am
- Forum: The Hog Pen
- Topic: Saturday March 15th
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3426
Re: Saturday March 15th
Morning Twenty-nine degrees with lingering snow.
Good for her! She's an interesting person and I wish her well.
Good for her! She's an interesting person and I wish her well.
- Fri Mar 14, 2025 10:39 am
- Forum: The Hog Pen
- Topic: Friday March 14th
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3269
Re: Friday March 14th
Morning. Snow, 32 degrees, air moving about 20 mph. I'm going out but have decided to eschew sunbathing for the day.
- Thu Mar 13, 2025 8:51 am
- Forum: The Hog Pen
- Topic: Thursday March 13th
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4292
Re: Thursday March 13th
Thanks, Tom.
45 degrees. Wind whipping along. Sunny with snow predicted for tomorrow
45 degrees. Wind whipping along. Sunny with snow predicted for tomorrow
- Wed Mar 12, 2025 8:51 am
- Forum: The Hog Pen
- Topic: Wednesday March 12th
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5356
Re: Wednesday March 12th
Morning, boys. 39 degrees, a gentle 15 mph breeze out of the southwest, and sunshine.
Book 2 is done, done, done, and ready to go to the publisher. I hope he likes it because the intensity of the last several months has killed my poor laptop. It has been wonky for a while, but a couple of days ago ...
Book 2 is done, done, done, and ready to go to the publisher. I hope he likes it because the intensity of the last several months has killed my poor laptop. It has been wonky for a while, but a couple of days ago ...
- Tue Mar 11, 2025 9:33 am
- Forum: The Hog Pen
- Topic: Tuesday March 11th
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4080
Re: Tuesday March 11th
Morning. Sunny, 48 degrees, 16 mph wind. The grass was green when the snow melted and bulbs are poking up tips all over the yard.
- Mon Mar 10, 2025 1:12 pm
- Forum: The Hog Pen
- Topic: Monday March 10th
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4262
Re: Monday March 10th
Reservations to a National Park... depressing, but Yosemite has been overrun for fifty years. Just wait until there is no one left to guard the gate.
51 degrees, 40 mph wind.
51 degrees, 40 mph wind.
- Sun Mar 09, 2025 10:00 am
- Forum: The Hog Pen
- Topic: Sunday March 9th
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5732
Re: Sunday March 9th
Morning. Sunny, 41 degrees, 25 mph air. Still plenty of snow on the ground but it's melting. Went out to the ranch yesterday to shoot targets and got down two miles of snowy dirt and mud without any problems. Good old Camry.
- Sat Mar 08, 2025 12:42 pm
- Forum: The Hog Pen
- Topic: Saturday March 8th
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4311
Re: Saturday March 8th
Morning, but just barely. I put in several hours worth of work on Book 2 before I allowed myself to take a computer cruise break. Deadline is April 1. I could use an extra month, but that's the nature of writing: one can always use more time. Twenty days until the release of Book 1. Nineteen days ...
- Fri Mar 07, 2025 10:40 am
- Forum: The Hog Pen
- Topic: It's 307 Day! ( Friday March 7th)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5544
Re: It's 307 Day! ( Friday March 7th)
True. The letter is probably sitting in Washington DC with some potal worker wondering if Shelton is somewhere along the Beltway.
- Fri Mar 07, 2025 7:28 am
- Forum: The Hog Pen
- Topic: It's 307 Day! ( Friday March 7th)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5544
Re: It's 307 Day! ( Friday March 7th)
Morning. 20 degrees. Air barely moving. Lots of snow.
Pretty quick trip to get from Rock Springs to NC in less than 12 hours. I sent my daughter some papers a week ago. She lives in Washington. Still doesn't have them.
Pretty quick trip to get from Rock Springs to NC in less than 12 hours. I sent my daughter some papers a week ago. She lives in Washington. Still doesn't have them.
- Thu Mar 06, 2025 10:20 am
- Forum: The Hog Pen
- Topic: Thursday March 6th
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3580
Re: Thursday March 6th
Morning. 29 degrees, 25 mph wind directly out of the northeast, which is where our worst storms come from. Not much snow yet, just enough to cover the ground, but more is predicted. All in all, it is not a balmy spring day out there. I'd just as soon stay home, but I have a class to teach this ...
- Wed Mar 05, 2025 8:03 am
- Forum: The Hog Pen
- Topic: Wednesday March 5th
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4336
Re: Wednesday March 5th
Morning. 17 degrees, 12 mph wind. Not nearly enough snow yesterday. Naturally, the big snow is predicted for tomorrow when I have to leave the house to teach a class. Oh, well.
- Tue Mar 04, 2025 8:37 am
- Forum: The Hog Pen
- Topic: Tuesday March 4th
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4443
Re: Tuesday March 4th
Morning. 26 degrees, fairly still at the moment, snow on the ground, though not as much as we need.
- Mon Mar 03, 2025 7:58 am
- Forum: The Hog Pen
- Topic: Monday March 3rd
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3409
Re: Monday March 3rd
Morning. 25 degrees, 17 mph wind. Snow predicted tonight and tomorrow. March came in like a lamb this year.
- Sun Mar 02, 2025 10:08 am
- Forum: The Hog Pen
- Topic: Sunday March 2nd
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2595
Re: Sunday March 2nd
Sunny morning with a few scattered clouds. 32 degrees, air moving but without any great enthusiasm.
Have they come to any decisions about Star Plunge?
Have they come to any decisions about Star Plunge?
- Sat Mar 01, 2025 8:55 am
- Forum: The Hog Pen
- Topic: Saturday March 1st
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3457
Re: Saturday March 1st
Morning. Appears to be sunny, 25 degrees, 10 mph air movement. HIgh of 61 predicted, snow supposed to be back on Tuesday.
- Fri Feb 28, 2025 7:14 am
- Forum: The Hog Pen
- Topic: Friday February 28th
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3769
Re: Friday February 28th
Morning. 40 degrees, 20 mph wind.
- Thu Feb 27, 2025 12:07 pm
- Forum: The Hog Pen
- Topic: Thursday February 27th
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4234
Re: Thursday February 27th
Morning. 52 degrees, air whipping along at just under 30 mph.
- Wed Feb 26, 2025 10:08 am
- Forum: The Hog Pen
- Topic: Wednesday February 26th
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5661
Re: Wednesday February 26th
They aren't undocumented immigrants there.
Morning. 37 degrees. Overcast. Air drifting along at 10 mph. Today is my husband's 76th birthday.
Morning. 37 degrees. Overcast. Air drifting along at 10 mph. Today is my husband's 76th birthday.
- Tue Feb 25, 2025 2:53 pm
- Forum: The Hog Pen
- Topic: Shoot them in the.....
- Replies: 6
- Views: 8275
Re: Shoot them in the.....
Women have known about this for centuries. Glad to see guys finally catching up. 

- Tue Feb 25, 2025 8:58 am
- Forum: The Hog Pen
- Topic: Tuesday February 25th
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5386
Re: Tuesday February 25th
Morning. 48 degrees, 50 mph wind. Geese hang around here all winter, too. Tsk. Canadians. They gripe about how they don't want to be mistaken for Americans, then they come down here and don't go home.



- Mon Feb 24, 2025 10:22 am
- Forum: The Hog Pen
- Topic: Monday February 24th
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5068
Re: Monday February 24th
Morning. 50 degrees, 40 mph wind. I think The Giant Puppy and I will go for a walk along the river later today once I get my writing done. If we're lucky, the wind will deter people from visiting the dog park. Both McDuff (a lab/Great Pyrenees mix) and I (a Scotch-Irish mix) have sufficient ballast ...
- Sun Feb 23, 2025 8:52 am
- Forum: The Hog Pen
- Topic: Sunday February 23rd
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4044
Re: Sunday February 23rd
Good morning. 40 degrees and a 45 mph wind.
- Sat Feb 22, 2025 9:40 am
- Forum: The Hog Pen
- Topic: Saturday February 22nd
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3675
Re: Saturday February 22nd
Morning. 38 degrees, 25 mph wind and rising. Partly cloudy, but the solar snow melter is out.
Sounds like a screwy situation, Tom.
Sounds like a screwy situation, Tom.
- Fri Feb 21, 2025 9:50 am
- Forum: The Hog Pen
- Topic: Friday February 21st
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3591
Re: Friday February 21st
Greetings, earthlings. 28 degrees, wind wafting gently along but supposed to pick up later today.
- Thu Feb 20, 2025 9:43 am
- Forum: The Hog Pen
- Topic: Thursday February 20th
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3695
Re: Thursday February 20th
Morning. A crispy 8 degrees and air movement under 10 mph. Out into the snow I must go this afternoon to teach embroidery.
- Wed Feb 19, 2025 11:29 am
- Forum: The Hog Pen
- Topic: Wednesday February 19th
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3400
Re: Wednesday February 19th
Morning. 8 degrees and about that speed for the air. Once upon a time, I'd have looked and and thought, "What a great day for a walk." Today I do not
- Tue Feb 18, 2025 10:46 am
- Forum: The Hog Pen
- Topic: Tuesday February 18th
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3386
Re: Tuesday February 18th
Morning. One degree, 10 mph wind.
Are they actively trying to frighten people over weather?
About fifteen years ago, the weather people started spinning every snowstorm into Snowmageddon and screaming doom any time the wind creeps over twenty mph. Keeping people scared is great for keeping them ...
Are they actively trying to frighten people over weather?
About fifteen years ago, the weather people started spinning every snowstorm into Snowmageddon and screaming doom any time the wind creeps over twenty mph. Keeping people scared is great for keeping them ...
- Mon Feb 17, 2025 9:15 am
- Forum: The Hog Pen
- Topic: Monday February 17th
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3603
Re: Monday February 17th
Morning. 7 degrees and snowing, with frozen fog covering the tree branches. Very pretty, though I wish I didn't need to go out into it this afternoon. I've turned into a couch potato this winter, or rather a chair and ottoman potato, spending way more time at the computer than I like. I hope to get ...
- Sun Feb 16, 2025 9:32 am
- Forum: The Hog Pen
- Topic: Sunday February 16th
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3702
Re: Sunday February 16th
Morning. 18 degrees, air moving a little over 20 mph most of the time, but I think it's increasing.
Can't snow below 25 degrees?
Well, maybe there's a law against it in California.
Can't snow below 25 degrees?


- Sat Feb 15, 2025 2:17 pm
- Forum: The Hog Pen
- Topic: Saturday February 15th
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3700
Re: Saturday February 15th
Afternoon. Snow on the ground with intermitent flurries. Last time I checked, it was 15 degrees with barely moving air.
- Fri Feb 14, 2025 8:46 am
- Forum: The Hog Pen
- Topic: Friday February 14th
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5080
Re: Friday February 14th
Morning. 40 degrees and almost 40 mph wind. Feels like summer after the last few day. Snow predicted tomorrow.
- Thu Feb 13, 2025 9:15 am
- Forum: The Hog Pen
- Topic: Thursday February 13th
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3958
Re: Thursday February 13th
Morning. 19 degrees with the air moving along at 35 mph. Down at the airport, the wind speed is less than half of ours up here. Nothing like living in a wind tunnel.
- Wed Feb 12, 2025 9:51 am
- Forum: The Hog Pen
- Topic: Wednesday February 12th
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5966
Re: Wednesday February 12th
Morning. A wee bit brisk at -1, but a whopping high of 14 is predicted for later today. Air movement is minimal. Snow on the ground.
- Tue Feb 11, 2025 10:48 am
- Forum: The Hog Pen
- Topic: Tuesday February 11th
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6235
Re: Tuesday February 11th
Morning. 4 degrees, air barely moving, snow yesterday and last night. I'm not tempted to neglect the jobs du jour in favor of gardening today.
- Mon Feb 10, 2025 11:05 am
- Forum: The Hog Pen
- Topic: Monday February 10th
- Replies: 4
- Views: 8009
Re: Monday February 10th
Go ahead and gloat. July is coming...OL Mike wrote: Mon Feb 10, 2025 8:39 am Good morning. Another 51-75 sunny day. Almost embarrassed to post this.....almost.
- Mon Feb 10, 2025 8:18 am
- Forum: The Hog Pen
- Topic: Monday February 10th
- Replies: 4
- Views: 8009
Re: Monday February 10th
Morning. 7 degrees, still, heavy frost on the ground.
Roy had a fan belt the right size in the shop, so got the one on the furnace replaced forthwith. Ah, the joys of being married to a man who can Do Stuff.
Roy had a fan belt the right size in the shop, so got the one on the furnace replaced forthwith. Ah, the joys of being married to a man who can Do Stuff.
- Sun Feb 09, 2025 11:32 am
- Forum: The Hog Pen
- Topic: Sunday February 9th
- Replies: 3
- Views: 7230
Re: Sunday February 9th
It's still football season? 

- Sun Feb 09, 2025 8:47 am
- Forum: The Hog Pen
- Topic: Sunday February 9th
- Replies: 3
- Views: 7230
Re: Sunday February 9th
Morning. 21, sunny, 15 mph wind. Fan belt on the furnace is almost shot. Yay, Roy, for knowing how to fix stuff. Glad we have a woodstove in the meantime.