There hasn’t been one of these for a while, at least in the sense that no topic is off-topic. I’ll start…
FIRST SNOW! We got about five inches overnight. We were within ten days of the record for latest first measurable snow of the season.
GftNC ordered a buckwheat hull pillow, but I don’t recall that she ever said if it worked out well for her. I’ve used one for many years now and love mine, because I never wake up with a sore neck.
I was in Colorado in early May 2024, spending some time in Denver and more time in Estes Park, plus driving between the two. I will simply say that I experienced a very wide range of weather while I was there, sometimes during a single day.
I’ve written here before about the one day while working an inventory job across CO, NE, SD, WY, MT that I drove from Fort Morgan to Fort Collins and drove through sunny weather into fog, hail, sun, rain, fog, light snow, and sun again over about 35 miles of empty state highways.
Colorado: sunny weather punctuated by acts of god.
It’s said about Iceland: If you don’t like the weather, just wait 15 minutes.
I’ve noticed that the archive site has nothing June-December 2017. Is it lost, or did it not exist for some reason I’ve forgotten?
In 1971-72, I was on the southwest coast of Iceland. There were gale-force winds several times. But everything that could blow away had already blown away. We’d get snowstorms immediately followed by rainstorms. Once the temperature got to a record high of 59°F.