Finally, Real Rain

We finally got a real rain last night.  I don't know how much we received.  I need to get a rain gauge.  But it was the first measurable rain we've had in some time.  After an the initial rainfall around bedtime, it rained off and on much of the night I think.  Now we're having sunshine, but 70 mph winds and snow showers! 

I tried to use the camera setting to capture motion, but these don't really do justice to the lashing tree branches...and dog ears...blowing violently in the wind...

Jimmy usually just comes in, gets his hug and goes on his way, leaving Dixie behind.  Today the weather was so extreme he actually returned and came back in the cabin for a bit.

I think Dixie and I are going to go to Boulder just to get out of this.  I'm getting a lot of blow-back smoke from the wood stove because of the wind, which is supposed to continue on through tonight and tomorrow.

Since I've lived here I've read two funny comments about the winds in the Nederland weekly, the Mountain-Ear.  In one letter to the editor, a resident responding to concerns from some old-timers that Nederland's improvements were going to turn it into another Aspen, said there was little chance of that unless someone could design a giant wind screen to plant on the Continental Divide.  More recently, candidates for Nederland's City Council were being interviewed about how to keep the young people from moving away and one candidate said they left because of the wind!  I can see that.

Teddee