It's a very raw, rainy day here at the Aerie. The overnight temperatures never got below 41 as the "dropped" from 42 degrees just after midnight. It hasn't gotten above 48 degrees during the day, either. That's sorta understandable since we've been getting a nice gentle rain all day. The cloud ceiling is hovering at just over 2100 feet at the Aerie, but just a short distance across the cove we can see only the very base of the lowest windmill as the clouds have engulfed everything else above 2000 feet. A quick peek at the forecast shows more of the same for tonight and tomorrow morning.
Could be worse, the National Weather Service issued a sever thunderstorm warning last evening saying there was a possibility of 1" diameter hail stones. It looked like we might really get hit hard as the radar showed huge patches of bright yellow and red off to our southeast. As often happens around here, however, those cells got broken up as soon as they began to hit the mountains north of I-80 and east of the Allegheny National Forest. By the time they got here, they were whipped. We didn't even get any of the high winds that thunderstorms usually produce.
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We had company for dinner yesterday. Cousin Joe and his wife, Pat, came out from New Jersey to pick up some packing boxes. They've purchased a home about an hour south of here and will be having the closing on April 30th. Their home in New Jersey hasn't been placed on the market yet, but they'll be packing and hauling the small stuff out ASAP. Joe refuses to deal with the larger pieces of furniture and will hire a moving company to do the heavy lugging.
Joe and Pat were here for a couple of hours and left with a pick-up truck full of folded up boxes during a break in the rain. From looking at the radar, they may have been able to make it all the way home along I-80 without running into any rain.
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Joe was down in Virginia last week hunting with our buddy Doug in the western part of the state for turkey. Said he was lucky enough to get off a seven year skid and bag a nice Tom. I'm not much of one for turkey hunting--never tried it--but I keep hearing some gobbling every morning as they come off the roost. Considering my neighbor and his cousin bagged a bird opening day last year, I'm tempted. But then I think of how Terry and I are trying to empty the freezer before we hit the road to Alaska....
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Soft, gentle rains like this and the cool temperatures have been a boon to the grass. I can stand on the deck (under the covered porch roof) and literally watch the dang stuff grow. Keeps it up, I'll be pushing a mower before the weekend.
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Don't you know you're supposed to keep your freezer full so it works better?? Go get those turkeys. They are the dirtiest birds! We have a ton of them up here and unfortunately our dogs LOVE their special droppings. Like bon-bons to the pooches. Ugh!
Alaska will be fabulous!! Can hardly wait for our trip there when Patrick retires.I went alone when I retired from Alaska Air, but not the same as with your sweetie.:<)
hehe. You caught me with the Moon Stones. I actually gave the contents of one bottle to a neighbor for her grandson.
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