It dropped down to 20 degrees again last night. It's now "up" to 27 at the Aerie at 1:30 PM. Weather.com says it's 31 wherever they've got their station and AccuHunch agrees. Both say we'll get up to 36 but, with overcast skies and precious little wind, I don't see it happening. The radio forecaster says we'll get some more snow late afternoon tomorrow and that it will transition to freezing rain overnight and then all rain on Wednesday. We'll see.
UPDATE: AccuHunch now says 1-3 inches tomorrow afternoon into the night. Then, they say, it will be flurries and sleet on Wednesday. Feh.
UPDATE 2: It's just after 4 PM and it's snowing. Not supposed to be happening. Never did get above 27 degrees. Double "feh" plus.
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Terry's stitching clubs have started their Christmas parties at she made a big pot of vegetarian chili for today's event. I hope they leave some for us to add a bunch of venison chop meat to for tonight's dinner.
UPDATE: Half a pot came home! Yipee!
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There were three windmills turning earlier today but they came to a stop despite some breeze still blowing. A couple of them have been doing that the last few days. Intermittent operations seem to be the norm at the moment. Makes me think that the crews are just running tests on them and that they are not yet ready to be put on line.
Even when the closest ones are turning, I can't really hear anything from them. Part of that is due to the rustling in the trees as the wind shakes the branches and part of it is probably due to the design of the windmills themselves. A spokesman for the company doing the installations did tell us that at 100 yards it wouldn't be any noisier than a refrigerator operating across the room. Not bad considering the blades on the things are 75 feet long. And the closet windmill is between 400 and 500 yards away and slightly over the ridge, to boot. Only its topmost blade can be seen when it's whirling about.
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When I walked out on the deck around 1:30 this afternoon I was pleased to see a sharp-shinned hawk come swooping down amongst the little birds at the feeder. I didn't see it actually capture any bird but it sure shook them up! It landed on the garden fence a short distance from the deck and looked over its shoulder at me before taking wing and heading into the pines a dozen yards away. Its presence there got all the mourning doves upset and they fluttered away from the pines and the ground below the deck. The small hawk eventually took off to seek other prey--or perhaps just to launch another sneak attack later.
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