Cassi Creek: This
morning dawned cold, damp, and gray. Obviously,
there was a sunrise. I however did not
see it. I took Loki out, grabbed the
newspaper, and was back inside before the sun crested the eastern valley
wall. I haven’t seen the sun since last
week. Fortunately, the forecast winds
blew elsewhere. We had to deal with them
Saturday night driving into and home from Jonesborough. I’d estimate the gusts at 35 MPH over steady
winds of 15-20 MPH. They were predicted
to reach gusts of 50 MPH and continue into yesterday morning. That may have been the cause of our power
outage yesterday AM. We seem to have
avoided any wind damage.
Today’s hike
with Mike was more of slog with the dog.
The rain returned when we were about 300 meters down valley. It continued, a cold mist, interspersed with
larger drops, covering my sunglasses with droplets and smears. The rain has been almost a constant since
sometime Sunday morning. As of this
morning, we’ve logged 2.75 inches. This was a put your head down and push through
it sort of road march that reminds me of basic training and other excursions. The roar of the creek made it hard to here
either on-coming traffic or Mike. The
people driving this road seem to have never been taught that drivers should
slow down on wet roads.
Today, we’ve
a lot of chores lined up. Dinner will
probably consist of soup and salad. We
had a Massaman Thai curry with shrimp for dinner last night. I may make chili tomorrow.
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