Ignorance/Bliss...25º

Joseph Oregon Weather this morning says conditions are cold and calm...Below that in eye catching yellow are the following warnings...+Winter Weather Advisory and !Hydrologic Outlook...They are predicting snow then rain/snow into Wednesday...I look at this site most mornings then try to guess how accurate the prediction is...Also I look at road conditions that can tell me if I84 is closed, what the roads look like between here and LaGrande or between here and Lewiston...Both of those road reports usually have "weather hazard," somewhere in the description...The biggest problem with all of this is that conditions can change practically in a heartbeat...By the time we leave home and 30/40 minutes later arrive in the canyon, the conditions could be totally different, better or worse...This site also tells us how much snow we might get during the day...Never very accurate, it is a crap shoot if you ask me.

This takes me back to the "good old days," when all of the cars were only 2 wheel drive, not front wheel, or 4 wheel just plain 2 wheel...Normally we used the same tires for winter as we did for the summer...Where I grew up in Idaho, it started snowing in November and continued through March and sometimes into April...We didn't have hour by hour weather reports, but we knew it was going to snow on any given day and it could be an inch or a foot or two!..Granted we didn't venture far from home, no reason to...We had cows to milk, sheep, pigs, chickens, horses and range cows to feed and take care of, our days were full and we were lucky to have meat in the freezer and a cellar stocked with fruits and vegetables.

If we did take a trip, no weather report to guide us, we piled suitcases in the trunk, maybe packed some food to snack on, water? doubtful, wore our coats, hats, gloves and boots and headed out...We always made it, I guess we were lucky...Just saying...Hugs To All...OWAV:)

Snow storm yesterday, lasted maybe half

an hour...1 maybe 2 inches.

Dinner