Sunday, 9:40 am: It is overcast and not snowing, but it is cold enough that it’s a possibility. What, snow in northern Maine that cannot be, or can it? Well mincing words and fracturing English grammar aside; it’s gray out there.

Our new HughesNet satellite Internet service is fast, except during rain or snow fade. We finally gave up on any locally operated DSL or Broadband ISPs. Hughes, wherever they are located, now has our business. And the installer even showed up on time, and during a heavy rain installed the dish and mount, although not where we wanted it located. The weather did not deter him, and he did get very wet. So any blog you now read from this writer have been zapped into a stationary Earth orbit communications satellite and back; A cyberspace blog astronaut of sorts. If you use your imagination it might be, otherwise it’s just an assortment of vowels, consonants, punctuation, verbs and sentences, etc. rolling of my keyboard and into your monitor, much like my brain after way too much caffeine.

Smokie - my worst critic

We made it safely to the veterinarian’s office yesterday. We only took two of our dogs in our car, which was a handful once we go into the office. They don’t want to be there and head straight for the door at any opportunity. If it doesn’t involve sleeping, eating or playing they are not interested and preferably at home.

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

Temperature: 25.7° [F.]

Barometer: 30.289 & rising rapidly

Humidity: 57%

Wind: E at 2 mph

Visibility: > 3 miles

Skies: 80-90% overcast

Precipitation: None

Since midnight:

Low temperature: 25° [F.] at 8:06 am

High wind: 14 mph at 5:39 am