Cold, wet morning (again!) at the Aerie

Frost warning? We didn't need no steenkin' frost warning!

Thinning clouds didn't happen either. As a result, the heat didn't escape as much as it could have. Yeah, it was only 39 when I came down stairs at 7 AM but that's not nearly cold enough for a frost. And with the constant breeze that blew all night there's little chance it got much colder in the valley.

Oh, and it rained over night, too. Not likely to have a frost if it's raining. I awoke at 5 AM thinking, "Did I turn the heat on?" See, I heard water running through some pipe and thought it might be the baseboard heat in the bedroom, but it wasn't. What it was was water streaming through the gutters and down spouts. Another one of those quick, but heavy, passing rain clouds. The total rainfall didn't amount to much (the gauge only held 0.15 inches from yesterday morning), but it certainly made enough noise to wake me up.

Another fire in the fire place this morning, but this time I'll get to enjoy it as well as the cats. Might go into the workshop to have another go at the wood quilt design, but I'll not be going outside again today.

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I've noticed that the trucks of the pipeline, gas drillers and windmill construction crews have been going up the hill a little more slowly these last few days. Not that there's any fewer trucks, mind you, but they seem a little more reluctant to get started on these cold, wet mornings. Or maybe it's just that they are having a little more difficulty traveling the wet clay road that can be as slippery as a snowfall. I can't imagine what sort of quagmire exists at the top of the mountain where they have been putting in the pipeline.

I have also noticed that no matter what the original color of the trucks, they are all reddish brown with clay from the top of the bed on down. Since many were originally white, this makes me smile for some reason.