pchinvegas
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- Las Vegas, NV
Sunny and 54 here today, we sent the bad weather on eastward, sorry folks
We got some freezing rain, not much, no snow, very cold this morning. We will barely get above freezing for the high today.
rkunsaw.... It sounds like you got it much worse than we did. You're a bit further north.
Snowin' and blowin' here since last night, been hibernating in the house. Made it out to the porch though to prep the bbq for some rib eyes, will have to brush off a bit more snow before we can start the coals. Also put on my old moonboots to make a few paths for the doggie to do his deeds. Lazy day.![]()
We're in for some bad weather for the next couple of days, so ready for spring!
They're predicting 90% chance of thunderstorms and possible snow today...so far it's sunny and beautiful. Chilly at 48* right now. We'll see.
The tiniest particle of anything in the eye is so irritating, and a poke like that must really hurt...hope all is well with your eye TWH. For us non-horsey folks, why do you smell hay, for the smell of mold or urine?Yes to bothMold if the hay is put up without having cured enough; not always the fault of the grower but sometimes sections of hay fields can be thicker, therefore don't cure at the same rate as the rest of the field. If there's too much moisture in the cut grass, it can mold once it's baled. In turn, that can often start an incindiary fire when the hay is newly cut and stored, which is why we stack newly cut hay sorta loose and I run big fans on it for a few weeks.
Urine because I have barn cats and now one of those male cats from next door has been coming in the barn. I just threw out six bales of hay ($42) from the other side of the barn because I smelled cat urine on one bale and found either Oppossum or Racoon droppings on another one. Oppossum are known carriers of EPM (Equine Protozoal Myeloencephalitis) which affects the nervous system. It either results in death or a horse with varying degrees of permanent nerve damage that, often, is no longer ridable. We have checked under those pallets a gazillion times and nobody is living under there but the critters must be coming in at night during inclement weather.
We had around 9 inches of snowfall, but today was sunny and in the low 30's, so it really helped melt off the walkways. They say well get another round soon, but I'm ready for it. It's good for the little bit of grass I have left of my back lawn.
Fishwisher, do you get the affects of the Santa Ana's? When I lived off the 215 between Sun City and Hemet, we would get those sickening winds. Boy I hated that. Sickening warm winds going in the reverse - creepy creepy creepy when an Easterner such as myself wasn't used to them - lol lol