Sad to say, but, Summer is gone...I'll miss it...
In late Spring I bought my 1st gas grill (on sale) and since then I've cooked indoors only a handful of times...
Last night I was bundled up and grilled a Tri-Tip that was 2.38 lbs...and it was SO good no additional seasonings and BBQ sauce was needed (even though I had a bottle of special sauce)...
This is along US Hwy 101
Looking west from my place
Yesterday was a defining moment in terms of WX (weather)...the snow level was just above me, and I did see some sleet and a handful of genuine snow flakes...certainly not enough to "stick"...
At 1:30 PM today I still have frost in places the sun does not shine on...and I DO have another Tri-Tip to grill...(I buy several when on sale at $3.99 a pound)...
I really don't like cold WX, and I really think snow is a PITA...but, it comes with the territory, up here in the mountains...and although the mighty Sierra Nevada Mtns is well known for copius amounts of snow (ala The Donner Party) the mountains in NW California DO get snow...enough that I'm "snowed in" at least once every winter for various periods...sometimes more than once...our pattern is: freeze, snow, thaw, melt...repeat, repeat, repeat...unlike the high Sierra where once it "sticks" it's there continously until the Spring thaw & meltdown...
Time to put away the flip-flops & shorts...and get out the long john's, parka's, and tire chains...
Dealing with tire chains with a back injury is a total bummer...and I'm already wishing it was Springtime...
Meanwhile "Daylight Hallucination Time" is about to end this weekend...Do we really "save" daylight...??? It's a holdover from "War Time" started many decades ago...but does my garden care...??? Does a sundial care...??? It's just a mass hallucination, and only by mutual agreement of the populace that it has any meaning...do we still need it...???
