51 degrees today

Can you believe it was 51 degrees today?  Well, it was and it rained and rained and rained.  Tonight snow, sleet & rain.  It will be a long drive tomorrow.

I went up on the roof today to get rid of the sticks dam that had formed in the valley.  While up there I picked up the larger size sticks that have fallen with each wind,rain,ice, and snow storms all winter.  I also walked down to the lake and there was ice half way up the beach 2″ thick – the water was really up high and still is higher than normal but the river volume and height gages show a steady decline with an upturn for todays rain. 

 Jess came home today and had a lot of interesting and funny stuff to tell about working in the big city.  We had a good long time talking all afternoon.  It looks like a trip to Denmark and training Brazil is coming up pretty soon.  We will have a whole new sequence of stories.