Kittitas County ought to be boring. This week was an exception.
A man was arrested for barricading** himself and “girlfriend” in her house and proceeded to spray a fluid around, shouting he was going to set the place on fire, and they would die. He neglected to take her phone, so she called the cops. Essential pieces of the story were not in the paper.
**(I’ve never understood how a large couch against the front door is going to prevent police from entering. I’ve never seen a house with just one door and no windows.)
Item #2 involves a woman flying a plane into a mountain just 13 miles southeast of home. There are missing pieces to this story, too. The paper didn’t say she hit the mountain, but showed a picture of the site (near wind towers) just a half-mile past the top – in the direction she was headed. There was a rain/snow squall there at the time. If she was trying to fly around it, one hundred yards farther to the right would have been enough to miss the mountain.
As she approached Ellensburg – with an airport – she turned to the NE directly toward Whiskey Dick Mountain. It is 2,500 feet lower than the mountains she was headed over on her flight plan to the north. Likely, we will never know what was going on.
I was with four others pruning grapes, northeast of those ridges. One of the crew mentioned the storm that appeared to be snow. It was mostly sunny at the vineyard.
On a lighter note, Thursday morning my new “crown” was placed on a back tooth on my lower jaw, left side. It is not visible. A prior filling had been there for 27 years. A dentist 100 miles south of me is advertising a “single visit” crown replacement. My dentist isn’t as advanced. I had a 2-week wait between a temporary and the permanent crown. Years ago, I had a temporary one come off in a day. This time all went as intended.
Weather-wise the Cascades will be getting snow. Here there is a possibility for Thursday morning snow or rain. I don’t think I will get enough to notice. This afternoon, wind has ramped up to 30mph gusts.
I heard that someone complained about an electric bill. He claimed he was charged for the sunlight, the moonlight, the street light, the light of his life, the speed of light, and the light at the end of the tunnel.
Keeping Track
on the Naneum Fan
John