Saturday evening about supper time snow began at the house. Before dawn there was 
an inch, and then it started to melt. By Noon most was gone. A ski area, Crystal Mountain at 6,850 feet elevation (45 miles west of me) has several cameras and I snagged an image shown here. Their other cameras show mostly fog.
At the EBRG airport there was a cold mist registering as a trace of snow. It didn’t stick and that was the situation just a couple miles south of me. A few miles up in the hills, there is about 3 inches. More, a few inches, is expected here Tuesday evening. I’m not planning to go anywhere, so it doesn’t matter.
For an hour or so the turkeys have been searching under the Ponderosa Pines for, I guess, pine seeds. I’ve had to fence places where I put seeds for birds or the deer and the turkeys would get most of the sunflower seeds. I don’t know if they would get the tiniest seeds.
The big local news this week suggests there is a mental health problem in the region. One Corey Burke hacked and killed her father because he wouldn’t turn off the lights. This had something to do with the election. A Yakima driver led police on a 70 mile chase into the Ellensburg area on I-90. Not related to the election. It reads like something from a TV “cops” show. A Cle Elum woman pointed a gun at folks she knows, then fled to EBRG and behaved strangely in a downtown street. No harm done, except she scared the folks in both places. Topping these strange stories is the capture of “Notorious P.I.G.” in Tacoma.
https://news.yahoo.com/news/video-shows-tacoma-police-chase-232216923.html
I realized I was missing all these interesting stories,
so with a half-price subscription, I am back to getting a paper copy of the EBRG Daily Record. This, also, gives me paper to start a fire in the wood-burning stove, when needed.
I cut a dozen small trees, including several that have been dead for three or four years. The bark is falling off. Being tall and thin, I can now just cut to length for the stove. No need to split them. I guess there are too many trees close together that causes the tall, thin, and nearly non-branching growth form. Side limbs are not more than an inch thick.
I’m now headed out to cut those up. I’ve an hour or so of good light before the sun sets over Crystal Mountain and the Crest of the Cascades.
Keeping Track
on the Naneum Fan
John