Wild Weather

 

This is a trail cam shot from the day I arrived home from Colorado, December 29.

New Years Day was an anomaly.  It was sunny and pleasantly warm. 

This is one of the most crowded days we have ever seen on "our beach" with about 10 cars in the parking lot.

We stayed almost til sunset to take advantage of the minus tide.

I believe this is a Coho salmon that was on our river bank.  It is pretty tricky to differentiate the different salmon and steelhead.  You have to look at the color of their gums, the number of rays in the anal fin, spotting, and shape.  We put it back in the river to keep it away from Daisy.

We had heavy wind and rains (4") the night of January 2-3, which brought down old alders, Douglas fir limbs, and loads of smaller branches.  It also ripped off our front yard canopy.

We will be busy!  

My rain total for 2021 was 117.56", the most rainfall of the last 3 years.  What is daunting, though, is that there was hardly any rain from mid-March until mid-September. Usually there is some rain through the summer months, and gentler rains in the winter.  Global warming?

We had some inconvenience the past 2 days as our well/water system mysteriously went dead.  We had an expert working on it the past 2 days and it came back to life this evening.  Byron was working on it until 9:30 last night, in the rain and dark.  Today, he finished at about 5:00 and was headed up to Lincoln City to replace a well pump at the bottom of a 200 ft. well.  He sometimes works til midnight.  He said he'd return tomorrow and teach me how to service our acid neutralizer/ filter, and haul out a huge steel tank that is a detriment to our system.  What a worker!

Well, I think I'm caught up with all the news that's fit to print. Happy New Year!