Memorial Day, 10:30 am: Back to normal weather blogging. Once again we have new weather conditions. It’s lightly raining at the moment, some would call it drizzle. I think there is a fine distinction between the two conditions. In any case, it was actual rain earlier in the morning, with .47 inch of rain.

A male Ruby-throated hummingbird giving me a stern look while
guarding his feeder on our kitchen window - yesterday

All is normal in Grand Isle. The big [local] news is; a cell phone provider is planning on erecting a new cell tower on one of our town’s many hilltops. Proponents and opponents are lining up to have their say. Personally, I am for the new tower. I like living in a relatively remote rural Maine community where traditional land use and life-styles prevail, but that doesn’t mean we need to exclude modern technology. We are, after all, a few years into the 21st Century and appropriate use of current technology will work to our advantage. As a related example; next time you travel to the Saint John Valley find out how many Wi-Fi hotspots are located in our area. Let me know, because I am still guessing. More shots over the bow I suspect.

A moose on Parent Road in Van Buren - yesterday

So much for local events that gets everyone pumped up to argue their case: I’m still reading my instruction manual for my Sony digital camera which is comprehensive [complicated] enough. Computer technology is challenging enough for me just to stay current.

As you may have noticed my never-ending innocuous saga of our trip to Germany has ended. Thanks for reading. Hopefully in another three or four years we’ll return to the old country – well my wife’s old country.

Current values from our wireless Davis Vantage-Pro weather station:

Temperature: 56.4° [F.]

Barometer: 29.821 & falling slowly

Wind: SSE 7 mph light & variable

Humidity: 100%

Visibility: ca. 3 miles under cloud base

Skies: 100% heavy cloud cover

Precipitation: .47 inch – rain

Since midnight:

Low temperature: 46.4° [F.] at 4:19 am

High wind: 20 mph at 2:34 am