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DUI on the mountain tonight… by some great chance, nobody was seriously hurt

Every once in a while I write a song… and on rare occasion, I record myself singing it… here’s one such rare occasion…

It’s windy up here this morning … feels like a system is moving in…

Photo dump of an incredibly warm Tuesday in February… some folks are still enjoying what’s left of the snow…

It’s been a crazy day up here… Lee, Deer Creek and Kyle were packed… NHP was handing out citations left & right and even arrested someone… people want their winter snow play… it’s 50°f at 4:30pm… what a weird winter…

Good morning from Lee Canyon

It was cold last night, but Saturday at 2pm it’s 53°f in the sun and 47°f in the shade… I’m walking around in short sleeves breathing in all this fresh air…

“Rollin’ hills… filled with Joshua Trees… beneath the snow capped mountains of the Mojave”

It’s been just a gorgeous day… I had to take a panoramic photo…

Wednesday turned into a very cloudy day

Sunset out of sawmill this evening 📸: WiBrewCrew7

The smoke in the canyon from controlled burns is making for hazy horizons today

It’s been dang near tropical day up here! Outside shoveling wet melting snow in my short sleeves with temps hitting 49°f…

What a day… shoveled as much snow as I could out of the road so I could get enough momentum to push through the foot deep snow going down hill… got to the end of the road and turned down the steepest of a 600ft drop…skidding one way, then the next… narrowly missing a couple of old pine trees

One of the best sights to see after a dumper of a storm… is the snow plow…

Look at all that drinking water… just hanging out in the trees…

This is what February is supposed to look like…

The sun is doing its work of melting the snow…

What an evening… we had contracted to a guy to plow our roads. It was his first time experiencing a winter in Lee. 3 hours after I expected him I grew worried and went searching… I found footprints that lead to a truck that was stuck… I finally found him… he was fine..

Had to shovel again everything that I’d already shoveled earlier… then I saw the clouds moving over Mummy across what I believe is known as the Snow Moon… how apropos

It’s 7pm on Thursday… it’s till snowing but should break off soon… we got a lot between 5pm and 7pm… measurement on the deck railing is 9”… on the gravel and dirt road it’s 6”. Of course this is not scientific in the least…

Snowy days

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10am… it’s picking up the pace now… the <1 inch I brushed off my deck was wet… meaning it’s more compact. We may have 2 inches by 11am…

It’s 9am… we still have less than an inch of snow, and it appears that the majority of moisture has moved south of us and been more of a direct line toward the Las Vegas Valley…

And so it begins…. This isn’t being shown on Doppler radar… and the heavy stuff won’t start until after 4am. But the winds are a blowing and the snow is in the air at 2am…

It’s 11:20pm Wednesday night and the southern Sierras are beginning to get their first snows from this system… you won’t see precipitation over Death Valley as the moisture is riding high on a cushion of dry air… that is, until it reaches the Spring Mountains…

It’s headed right for us… I’m expecting snow to begin around 3am

This is not what February is supposed to look like… however, we’re about to get a serious dump of snow starting tonight… it’s currently 35°f with less than 10% humidity… even still… the birds are doing everything they can to prepare for what’s coming… they know

Hasn’t been above freezing all day… fixed the battery issue and a water leak… All ready for the snow

I think 8-12 is enough… yep, that’s about as much as I want to shovel…

Some forecasts say we should get between 13-20” of snow ❄️on Thursday. Many of these deep forecasts have been wrong this season. One thing is different about this one. It’s an atmospheric river. Not just a regular system… but a firehose of precipitation…

It’s short sleeve weather in Lee Canyon this Saturday…

All night long

The clouds are moving quickly tonight

Storm’s a brewin!

It’s getting a bit windy up here Thursday afternoon

47°f at 11:30am this sunny Thursday morning. A few gusts here and there.

I really can’t describe how sunny, and moony, it was today

Saw one of these guys today… we have just a few.. The rock Pigeon is a wild ancestor of all domestic and feral pigeons, inhabiting coasts, cliffs, and caves. Pairs nest in rock crevices, often mating for life. They are known for their ability to fly very long distances.

Such a windy day in Lee Canyon. We have all the cabin windows open for the first time since early fall… it might as well be Spring…

Good morning!!! 59°f at 10:30am on Sunday, Feb 2.

Mt Charleston peak looking beautiful today

Just me, singing a song both southern Nevada … youtube.com/shorts/Io0ca...

Life is old there, older than the trees, younger than the mountains growing from an ancient sea…

It’s a beautiful morning in Lee Canyon at 22°f up from a low of 11 last night

Listen close and you will hear… that loud military jet sound in your ear. It goes back and forth between the jay’s and the jets…