Crazy Days, Frigid Nights

Deep winter returns to Wheatland. Temperatures are mostly below zero again and a light snow has covered the town. Tango and I have a house guest for the week, a little black female dog who likes to sleep on my head at night. With her on my head and a jealous Tango wedged against my…

Freezing Rain

Our area has a weather alert this morning: ” Freezing Rain Advisory for East Platte County, WY” What the heck, isn’t freezing rain snow? Have we outgrown the word snow? Or maybe the weather people want to be more like the Eskimo people who have dozens of words for snow. As I read the special weather…