Saturday, 1:20 pm: Wet, and apparently more fickle, weather has struck again. It’s a tough call trying to guess what our weather will like in the next several hours. There are dark clouds all around us, but for the moment they’re not blowing in our direction. The NOAA weather radio station in Frenchville doesn’t mention anything that might be a concern for us. I doubt though I’ll go out in our garden and pretend I am a lightning rod. It’s better to leave well-enough alone, something I am not inclined to do with any regularity.

We had a quick trip into Caribou this morning for a vet visit. Our little old senior Sheltie, Tamara, who will be 17 years old in a few weeks, had problem with her right rear leg. Apparently she pulled a muscle and had some difficulty walking and some very obvious discomfort. We feared the worst. Luckily she’s snoozing quietly and, we hope on the mend with several quiet days. Dogs have a design flaw; they can’t tell us what’s bothering them, or where they hurt. Our design flaw is; we guess at it and hope for the best. Sometimes nature is like that.

After spending an almost sleepless night nursing our ill dog my brains are about fried. The high winds and driving rain didn’t help much. I thought life in the country was supposed to be more bucolic; not last night, anyway. Now I have to make sure I’ve crossed my “T”s and dotted my “I”s.

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

Temperature: 61.3° [F.]

Barometer: 29.404 & steady

Humidity: 72%

Wind: Calm

Visibility: > 3 miles under cloud base

Skies: 100% overcast

Precipitation: .50 inch – rain

Since midnight:

Low temperature: 60.7° [F] at 8:8:07 am

High wind: 27 mph at 3:23 am