We're in a Fog

Hanh mitakuyapi.  The spring thaw is on.  It's the 12th of "March", wmc (whiteman calendar),  & we've had a thaw going on all 12 days.  And nights.  Every day has been foggy.  Thick, too. 

Ordinarily, this unci would be grumpy from it bcs I suffer from that sunlight-lack thing.  When it gets really bad, I go to the tanning beds because I found out years ago that the hot bulbs feel great on my many scars, & the light - even through the goggles (wear them!  the alternative is blindness..), my disposition is, to pun, sunny.  Well, a lot sunnier than it is when I don't get enough sunlight..

I've got sun bulbs in the lamps in my lodge.  They help.  But they don't always do the whole job.  Sun bulbs always do the job.

Meanwhile, the thaw goes on, & we're praying really hard up here for a slo-o-ow thaw, so we don't have a repeat of last year's flooding.  The people at the National Weather Service say that if the thaw were to happen quickly, the floods would be 2 feet  higher than they were last year.  NO!

I had 4 feet of water running 40 mph out back last year.  My neighbors & I all moved out of our digs because our driveway was under water.  The flood took out an average of 26" deep X 55 feet wide X 120-something feet long chunk of the driveway - out front, where the water was an average of 24" - 30" deep.  Still running 40 mph, though..  And some people had it worse.

I hauled in over 30,000 lbs of sand & gravel with a half-ton pickup & unloaded it by hand.  One of my brothers helped with about half of it - until he got called back to work.  A paid vacation. ;)

  I'm a tough grandma, but last winter & last spring's floods nearly did me in.  You know, takoszja, I'm tough like us Indns have always prided ourselves on being.  But there are limits..  And after dona-hey years of being tough, we all want to take a rest.

Not to mention, we had to move a couple hundred cattle in a few hours, & you don't stack them, you know..  We missed a few bulls & I have a shot of them, stranded & on top of the manure pile, watching the water lapping up toward their hooves.  We don't need to do that again.

So we're enjoying the foggy weather & the slo-o-ow thaw..  and praying the thaw keeps creeping along.  Stay warm & dry..