The Hogsty

Morning. 60 degrees now. Low 80s later.

No, alas, the shotgun is not usable. My grandmother thought it was loaded and was afraid it would go off and hurt someone. She hid it in a barn that was used for storage: dirt floor, Arkansas heat and humidity, and time took their toll. My dad and uncle found ...

Greetings, earthlings. Currently 62 degrees on the ridge with a predicted high of 88. Celebrating my son's 36th birthday by turning his great-great-great grandfather's 1842 French double-barreled shotgun over to him. Originally a flintlock, the shotgun was refitted for percussion at some point. GGG ...

Morning. Sorta hazy this morning, currently 65 with a predicted high of 85. Good drive to the canyon yesterday. I only had to drive onto the shoulder of 20-26 once to avoid some idiot lacking depth perception who was trying to pass oncoming traffic.

Morning. Clear and 60 degrees, going for a high of 85. Need to make a run to Wind River Canyon this afternoon to pick up my grandson. May go all the way into Thermop to walk through the park, but haven't decided yet.

My son's birthday was yesterday. For a while 36 years ago, I thought Labor Day ...

Morning. Sunny and 63 degrees. High of 81 predicted. Garden work day. Today is also my son's 36th birthday. I am comparatively comfortable today compared to 36 years ago.

Morning. sixty degrees, supposed to get no warmer than 70. Overcast, half a chance of thunderstorms later this afternoon. Definitely feels like fall.

Morning. We had more rain last night. I haven't talked to The Keeper of the Rain Gauge (Roy) but I doubt it amounted to an inch. Even so, I'm grateful. Made a nice walk through the garden this morning and the shallow rooted plants were happy. Currently 62 with a high of 77 predicted.

Just got a ...

I can see how you might, but it seemed to me it was more splash, cash, and trash than genuinely enjoyable. Still, I don't like crowds, so my viewpoint is somewhat warped.

Morning. Nice clear day after a full day of slow rain.

Burning Man never appealed to me. I planned to go to a Rainbow Family gathering when one took place in Wyoming decades ago, but decided that many people in one place would be too overwhelming.

Morning. 60 degrees with something wet falling from the sky. High today under 70.

Yeah, I bet no one accused the folks planning that road of behaving like the Romans.

Morning. 62 degrees, headed for the mid-eighties.

The backroads around Casper are either unpaved or a tangled mass of tar snakes, thanks to bentonite clay and annual frost heaving. When I started riding again after a 20 year hiatus, I adjusted without thinking about it because there weren't many ...

Yep, that's them.

Morning. 59 degrees with a predicted high of 81. Definite tinge of autumn in the air in the evenings, even though a few days ago it was so hot that it made me sick. Wyoming.

I knew about road snakes, but the term "rubber alligators" disconcerted me. I've lived places where real alligators on the ...

Morning, earthlings. Currently 63 with a high of 79 predicted. Ahhhhhh...

Winter driving stories. Oh, the places I've been, the roads I probably shouldn't have taken at the time. Coming home from my daughter's place in Colorado several years ago, the combination of icy road, blowing snow, and 30 ...

Morning. A pleasant 61 this morning with a high of 84 predicted. Yesterday evening had a bit of fall in the air. I'm ready for cooler weather, but not the end of summer.

I think maybe people who write weather headlines need to get out more. Dangerous Heat Grips West, Records Could Fall Hide the ...

You can't convince those birds to do anything. That's why they're called peckers.

Morning. 66 degrees and not even supposed to reach 80 today. What bliss. The heat has really dragged this delicate flower down.

Morning. Sunny, 65, high predicted of 88. I'll take it and be glad. Looks like that fire is still rocketing along.

Morning. 69 degrees, high will be around 100. Mike, come get your weather and take it home.

There are so many Red Canyons in Wyoming that you could wave a stick at them all day and still not be done. North of my son is an area called the Red Wall Country. Pretty, pretty area. Not a bike route, but ...

Morning. 78 degrees at 9:45 headed up to way closer to 100 than I like.

Happy birthday to Ms. Mike. May she have many more to come, each better than the previous one.

Ingredient lists are fascinating things. I picked up non-dairy creamer one time, looked at the ingredients, and the first one was ...

Morning. Beautiful day on the ridge with sun and 63 degrees. Later it will be 90. The hell with it. I'm hiding out in the shade later.

How can fat-free half and half even be a thing? That's like calling something fat-free whole milk.

Morning. Sunny and already 76 degrees. Gonna be hot.

If you're interested, the Biodiversity Institute at UW has a program called Vulture Watch Wyoming that is always seeking information from observers. No science background is needed and just reports of where the birds are seen and when is helpful ...

Morning. Cloudy, already 72, but isn't quite supposed to make 90 today. I've been reading about your fire; sounds like a fierce one. 'Tis the season. A couple of months ago, we bought the lot south of us. A neighbor bought the lots west of us. The neighbor who used to own them was a bit of a hoarder ...

Morning. 60 degrees with a predicted high around 90,

Going out to watch turkey vultures in about half an hour. The article is done, but photos to go with it would be good.

Yesterday I talked to the gal in charge of arranging book tours and stuff and discovered they're planning on paying expenses ...

Morning. Days are noticeably shorter. 65 degrees with a high in the mid-90s predicted. Turkey vulture article complete. Book copy edits won't arrive until September 5 and have to be finished by the end of the day on September 8. Between now and then, I'm not going to work on anything more brain ...

Morning. Beautiful morning, but temps will climb too close to 100 for comfort later today. Of course, I think 85 is too close to 100, but we're talking 95 and above today.

I'll bet the shorter sleeves save the manufacturer a ton of money on fabric. Even a few inches less on the sleeves adds up to ...

Morning. Currently 62, going for a high around 90. Shade day for this girl.

I went to Sturgis several times between the late 70s and around 2010. Atmosphere kinda went from biker to comic con, with all the bank executives and lawyers dressed in brand new Harley tee shirts and leathers that had ...

Morning. 59 degrees and cloudy, going for 84. September 25 at 6. It would be fine to see you again and meet your wife.

Morning. 60 degrees with a predicted high of 80. Partly cloudy, but those clouds look unenthusiastic, so I doubt we'll be seeing any moisture on the ground. Humidity has crept up to a walloping 50%, though. Yay. Those 10% humidity days can desiccate one's skin.

Sold over half my books at the ...

Morning. Currently 48 degrees with the high predicted to be below 80. Suits me.

Book signing in Douglas later this morning. Have to leave here about 8:15 to meet up with the folks I'm riding over with. I hope no one feels particularly chatty, and if they do, I hope they don't expect extended ...

When the turkey vultures are riding the thermals in a free wheeling circle, they're referred to as a kettle. Those roosting together in trees are collectively called a guild. I don't know that the term is specific to turkey vultures, but a wake is the collective noun for vultures when they're dining ...

Morning. What Tom just said about their weather goes for here, too. I plan to spend the day in garden while it is still cool, then sit myself in the computer to continue the turkey vulture saga. Made a date with the local turkey vulture expert to go take photos of the bunch that roost near her house ...

80 years. Wow.

This was the event that meant my father was in the occupation forces instead of the forces that were to invade Japan. He was stationed in Nagasaki starting in December of 1945. He eventually died of non-Hodgkins lymphoma, which got a lot of people exposed to radiation.

Still morning. Hotter than a tourist tumbling into a Yellowstone geyser. Stretching on up through the 80s to a high of 95 and a whopping 26% humidity. Or maybe it just seems hot as hell because I spent the last ninety minutes in the sun. Had I not had a giant umbrella, I'd no doubt be melted into a ...

Morning. Cloudy, still, 64 degrees with predicted high of 91.

We live on what was once, and still mostly is, a sagebrush-covered ridge. Trees in this area at a premium. Since we have big trees in the yard, including one habitat tree that is used every year for nesting, we get a lot of birds. Right ...

Morning. Currently 59 with a predicted high of 92, which is officially Too Damn Hot.

The museum once got in a freshly expired great horned owl and I was the one who prepared her for a sojourn in the freezer until we could afford taxidermy. I have never felt anything so soft in all my life as that ...

'Tis a sunny 57 degrees in Natrona County with a predicted high of 87. Water running in the garden, a morning at the computer ahead of me. I want to finish the turkey vulture article for Wyoming Wildlife by Tuesday so I can send it to my experts to make sure I didn't say anything stupid, then off to ...

It's a bright pretty morning at the foot of the ridge. Currently 56 degrees with a predicted high of 87. Too hot, but I'll take it over the 104 degrees my brother gets to enjoy in the Rio Grande Valley later today.

Red tail hawk was hanging out in the tree yesterday. I think the puppy is too big ...

Me, too. Good times.

Behold! August is upon us. I am not ready for it to be this late in the year. Currently 62 degrees with a high of 86 predicted.

McDuff and Brodie have adjusted to each other nicely. Last night, they engaged in a wild game of chase. Imagine, if you will, one long-legged 100 pound dog roaring around ...

Tom, how come you're the golden boy?

Aaannnd now it is.

61 degrees at 8:30 with a high in the mid 80s predicted. We had a nice rain last night. Hope the storm put out more fires than it started.

Re: the dog discussion yesterday:

My husband thought he was too old for a puppy when we got The Giant Puppy three years ago. I am six ...

Okay, now it is not allowing me to post. The hell.

Morning. Wondering if the site will let me post today. Instructions were to contact the head honcho if probems continued, but it woudn't let me do that, either.

Testing...

Morning. Cloudy, 67 degrees, 84 as a high with thunderstorms developing. Naturally this is the day a friend is coming over to drink ice tea in the rose garden.

The substation is just southwest of us. We were out in the yard yesterday morning, heard a boom, and lost power for a couple of hours. Hadn ...

Afternoon. Power was out for two or three hours this morning and I'm just wandering home after running errands. 86 degrees and expected to slide a bit higher before it starts to fall.

Tourists don't do enough homework, do they? Here they start off on a hike wearing shorts and a tee shirt, get lost ...

Morning. 75 degrees with a rise of 20 degrees predicted for later today. Real smoky.

didn't know we had any Apache tribes in the area.

Years ago, the general store in downtown Shoshoni sported a painting of Geronimo on the front wall. I aways wondered why. That entire side of the block is gone ...

Greetings, troops. 81 degrees, going for a high of 90 under smokey skies. Several small fires in our general vicinity, but unless they've blown up since the last posting, this smoke originates somewhere else.

Tom, if you want to haul stuff, Rescued Treasures here in town has two large stores ...

Morning. 81 degrees aready, headed into the mid-90s.

Nope, it was 5:00 pm when I stopped at Storyteller, and that's way past my coffee time.

Home again, home again. Jiggety jig.

Sunny and 68 degrees, going for a high of 90. Drove in from Missoula yesterday with a stop in Powell to drop off my grandson (his other grandmother died and the funeral is Friday). Made another stop in Thermopolis to visit the library and bookstore to arrange a ...

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