Breaking News!!!! 3-19

Today!  During the windstorm of the CENTURY, one storm after another has swept through the area and in a massive, HUGE gust of wind a brown, old, crunchy leave of indeterminate age was spun around and around in a funnel of wind, swooped across the road until the wind released it from its turbulent clutches and it drifted once more to the ground many, many, MANY FEET from where it was swept up!!!!!

These weather and media people have got to get lives and quit this talking about nothing just to stay on the air!  Come on...one stood in a puddle in Auburn to talk about the torrential rains a few days ago...and filmed a waterfall that is always along 49 when the rains get bad like it was an event!  The day of the tsunami they stood on the beaches and one reported that the water came in and the water went out...REALLY?  The ocean did THAT...really?!  Another reported that the tracks in the sand were swept away by the waves...come on people!!!  The local helicopter was up over the coast and instead of shots of the water and perhaps a BIG wave they were focused on a great brown hill...like they feared that the hill was going to be washed away by a 100 foot wave.  People are silly...and buying iodine stuff in New York in case of nuclear fall out from Japan.  They keep us in fear because fear means more money spent on ridiculousness...always stripped down to money and control.  I could go on, but I'll save that for another time...ha ha ha ha.

Any way when that really big gust of wind came up I decided it needed a story.

Over night we got another inch and a quarter of rain...only about a half inch today, was mostly really windy and that one humongous gust of wind was really something...I sat there watching and listening and wouldn't have been at all surprised to see the roof lift up or a tree fall over.  Larry was in Auburn at the libray learning about some geneaology stuff and I did some housework, neither of which have anything to do with the weather...just thought I would throw that in :).

The band tailed pigeon came back the morning...he just is such a standout amongst the other birds...to me...but maybe that is because I have never seen one before...though I just think he looked distinguished.  It is quite a bit larger than his cousins the mourning dove.  I also saw two turkeys wander through today...I heard the other day that they have been around about 10 million years, explains their odd appearance...if you squint they do resemble a dinosaur...hahaha.

It has such bright feet and beak.

These I plucked from the yard before they were flattened by the wind and rain.