Sunday, 4:30 pm: Phew! What a weekend; hail, rain, snow and high winds, all in the same day and at the same time. I suppose I need to bring in more firewood.

My wife and her family have returned from their trip of many of the eastern states a week ago today. They saw a little bit of everything, and not a lot of any one thing, or place. No connection or immersion in local cultures. They saw New York City at a distance from their car windows on the Interstate, and the Kennedy Space Center in the same fashion on the Interstate. Please don’t ask me about it, because I can’t quite figure it out either. A coffee table photo book is even cheaper. Most of the photographs they showed me are from the car windows. They did catch the tail end of a storm that swept through New York, which probably added to their adventure – of sorts.

On Thursday we drove them to the airport in Presque Isle to catch their connecting flight to Boston, then on to Berlin via London. From Presque Isle my wife and I continued driving south in two cars and dropped off their rental car in Bangor. Then we drove on to Augusta and Bath where we adopted a ten year old Border Collie named Brodie, now called Cosmo, from New England Border Collie Rescue. He’s a great senior dog, and very mellow too. He was discarded in an Albany, New York shelter when his humans got a puppy. I hope their puppy is more fortunate.

Current values from our Vantage-Pro
Weather station:

Temperature: 38.6° (F.)

Barometer: 28.919 & rising rapidly

Humidity: 81%

Precipitation: .45 in. rain, snow & hail mixed

Storm total precipitation: 1.05 in.

Visibility: > 3 miles

Skies: 100% overcast

Since midnight:

Low temp: 37.3° (F.) at 9:23 am

High wind: 26 mph at 9:23 am