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Seems as though in every place I have ever lived, eventually some local would come up with that painfully tired old saw "If you don't like the weather, just wait five minutes." Heard it, thank you, bo-ring.
While New Mexico normally has very predictable and pleasant weather, it can throw in some extremes from time to time. The following photos describe our weather over the course of the last four days. The irony struck me in that I am trying to advise my cousin on what to bring in the way of apparel for his visit next week. At this rate, he will need four steamer trucks and a state room on the QE2. But that is our little secret; we can always find him suitable garments once he hops off the plane with his single carry-on bag.
Seems as though in every place I have ever lived, eventually some local would come up with that painfully tired old saw "If you don't like the weather, just wait five minutes." Heard it, thank you, bo-ring.
While New Mexico normally has very predictable and pleasant weather, it can throw in some extremes from time to time. The following photos describe our weather over the course of the last four days. The irony struck me in that I am trying to advise my cousin on what to bring in the way of apparel for his visit next week. At this rate, he will need four steamer trucks and a state room on the QE2. But that is our little secret; we can always find him suitable garments once he hops off the plane with his single carry-on bag.
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Tuesday: Low 90s in the shade
Tuesday: Low 90s in the shade
Wednesday: High winds and dusty! 80 degrees
Thursday: Cooler mid 50s, the rains move in
Friday: Snow! 
As fragile as they appear, the hummingbirds never let the snowflakes as large as silver dollars slow down their quest for nectar!.
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Techno warning! It took my computer over half an hour to switch on this morning. Since it doesn't have a spark plug, I haven't a clue how to remedy this problem which has become steadily worse over the last few months. If I disappear without warning, know that computer death is the likely cause!
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31 comments:
Wow! Y'all got snow this week? Who'd a thunk it!?!
Hope your 'puter is well, Lin. Coz I need my NM High Desert Fix!
People must say that everywhere...it all sounds like East Tennessee to me and just about the same amount of snow as of late.
That must be where all the hummingbirds must be...seen any chickadees? They haven't showed up yet either.
It may be your hard drive...back up all your important files and pics quick!
Also try deleting some programs you never use for space...hows the space look?
Also, empty your caches and .tmp files.
Also, run your virus and spyware software...if you don't have both...get some quick!
I was here! Read both of your "High Desert" posts. Be back in a couple---I spoke a little too soon on my blog about feelin' better!
I shoulda' kept my "fingers" QUIET....!
So you DIDN'T get snow there, Buck?! I thought you'd be pitching snowballs today for sure. Now it's back to rain again and Mark is 'up top' with Slim for the night after helping out today. Those clay roads a little slick right now.
Mushy, I haven't been seeing the returning birds in usual numbers this year. Maybe they know something that we don't?
Thanks for the computer fix ideas. It's odd; it says it has roughly 59G of 75G still free. But out of frustration, I am going to try a few suggestions anyway. Wish me luck!
Aww geez, Bruno - you didn't touch wood when you declared that, did you?!? But I REALLY appreciate you doing a touch and go tonight - I know what that's like when you are feeling poorly.
Ha!, computer trouble thats familiar, its the reason I havent been around for the last two weeks. And yes what little knowledge I have about computers tells me your about to lose a computer and gain a paper weight. Hmmm, quick scan of whats been going on around this neck of the woods, you tagged me... oh goodie. Well I hope everythings well and your air co holds out as well as your little computer.
My empathies, Alex - computers are completely aggravating but handy when they do decide to run properly. Yes, the paperweight prospect does seem to be the current odds-on favorite. I am considering whether this is one of those quasi-subtle hints similar to the events leading to the permanent jettisoning of the TV.
I know you will do a naughty bang-up job of that meme if you choose to accept the assignment. If you don't, good on ya, too!
Palm Springs was a pilot base for us for a while. I lived out aways from the golf and LA crowd in a stucco house I rented from an older retired lady. We had days it got up to 126 degrees. That's miserable at an airport. Your shoes literally melet to the asphalt if you try and do a thorough preflight and the sun off the pavement and the shimmering heat really honks up your depth perception when you're trying to land in some serious desert winds. The controllers always had to pipe in to the unfamiliar pilots with the stale "but it's a dry heat". One day after spending about 13 hours in a cockpit with an irritating copilot, a bad air conditioning pack, and turbulence that made the day similiar to spending one in a paint shaker, I didn't' want to hear it. So when, as usual, the controller said to someone "it's a DRY heat". I took the microphone from my copilot and said "so's my &*#(@ oven, but I don't want to land there". Fortunately no one figured out who said it, so the FCC wasn't on my case.
LinM, dontchya just love getting in anonymous great digs from time to time?
One of these days, you are going to have to explain to me why anyone would live in Palm Springs. Mind you, I did run into a RE speculator from PS who called it home but 'summered' just south of Santa Fe. La-dee-dah.
I once rode through the desert at night and stopped at Yuma. Same thing: opened the door at midday and felt like I had just taken a peek inside of a 425 degree oven. Blech! Gimme the high desert any day over that nonsense.
armagadon....we are likely to be zapped, my corn squash pumkins potatoes alll brown and we have feezing yet to come...armagadon....and you out there form 90 to 50, i guess some nights 32
Oh Putz, your garden didn't get zapped yet, did it? A layer of newspapers or plastic might get them through if you haven't been hit since the funny thing was; we didn't get a hard frost out of all that nonsense. The lowest it dropped down to last night was STILL above freezing! Uhm, touch wood though.
First off, I like the snazzy new pic of you on the profile page.
As for N.M., Wild Thing is a Weather Watching freak. Comes from living in Houston, where you have to watch out for herricanes, himacanes and sheet rain. My attention on the disasterous weather here mainly consisted of using an umbrella to get her in the car on our way to eating out and visiting a casino. Oh, the casino had small piles of white stuff around it. Hail was that thick. And the day before the temp hit 90. Climate warming can do a reverse act too, I guess.
'Nother thing. If your puter is making grinding noises, it's definitely a bad hard drive. They don't last forever, I've found out.
I once looked under the hood of my 'puter and found three spark plugs. Strange you don't have any.
Looks like you got all four seasons in four days.
Try defragmenting your computer. It might help clear the problem
Cat, I'm glad neither of you slipped in the hail during the mad dash to the car. Hail no, that's no way to cash in one's chips!
Haven't heard any grinding yet ... TOUCH wood. I suppose this computer could be a Diesel or something.
Moose, now that you mention it, it was kind of a flash tour if the seasons. Amd today was Spring again.
It's doing a defrag as I type - wish me luck on this!
That's some weird weather you're having! I guess with climate change/global warming unpredictability may become the norm.
We had snow--huge flakes--at our house Monday but it didn't stick around. It stayed cool and rained every day until today, which was sunny and gorgeous. Risk of frost again tonight; we still can't plant a garden.
Who knows what either of us will wake up to tomorrow.
Ginger, sounds like you had an identical snowfall! Have you thought about putting in cold frames to start the garden plants? I'd like to try that some day. I was thinking about asking contractors to save patios doors that are being replaced because the seal between the glass layers has let loose. Cheap so who cares if it is misty to look through.
Do your neighbors tell folks about the huge flakes over at your place? Ours certainly do.
i am on pins and neddles as to the visit of your counin from good ole merry england to the high moutains of new mexico....does not seem like a fit...you will have to tell me what his facial reaction is as he arrives from such a green burg to your burg
Yes, I've thought about cold frames but haven't used them before. Last year we salvaged some old windows during a clean-up of some property near us and hoped to use them to fashion a small greenhouse. My husband had some very significant health problems last summer and fall so we didn't get to that project. We didn't even get to put out much of a garden last year--just some pots of sugar snap peas and two tomato plants.
Maybe this year we'll get to the window/greenhouse/cold frame project after all the firewood is cut, split and stacked. It takes us a long time to accomplish this task, especially when there are so many other things that have to be done as well. Trying to do anything outdoors with these infernal mosquitoes and black flies is driving me crazy--and believe me it's a short drive!
And yep, our neighbors see huge flakes every time they pass by our place. :D
wow, what a spectacular meteorological array! I'm so glad the hummingbirds are toughing it out, though. Good on you for keeping a steady source of nectar available!
putz, fortunately 'me cuz' had toured the southwest before we reconnected so he won't be in for a shock with the region. On the other hand, the Rat might test his sense of civilization. One can only hope at least. But he is a classic jolly good sport so it should be a complete blast.
Ginger, woo-woo - I am seriously coveting your salvaged windows since I lost all the ones I had saved up before the move. That's what they were intended for; a green house. Big, beautiful old wooden-framed winter storm windows from some huge old house. sigh
But I sure can relate to a million other projects taking priority, too. I wish we could slow down time in order to get everything done ... and then hoping for a good health day being there at the right time. Very frustrating, isn't it?
Phlegmmy, you know, I am feeling a little guilty that their nectar supply was more like a heavy iced nectar that morning but it didn't seem to slow them down in the least. I'm just relieved that the new glass (instead of plastic) font didn't blow up on me during the night. Not like I dared add a little fire water for antifreeze either - they are already mean enough. Somebody could get an eye poked out if they got rowdy.
Run Spybot - can be downloaded from computer - really found JUNK on my computer and now it's running fine.
Tech said run Spybot once a month if you are on the web at all and do a scan if not scheduled once a week.
Helps when you don't know what's going on in the background when you visit websites no matter how harmless they look.
Just got back from train trip to Chicago - will send e-mail with info. S& J
Beautiful shots there. Love the rain picture. Reminds me of bein' out at sea and seein' the rain waaaaay off in the distance. And my hard drive is slow too. drives me nuts, but can't afford a new one just now. I have too many other computers I can use.
Thanks, S&J! I ran the equivalent to Spybot and, other than the usual obnoxious and forever reoccurring little evil, nosy thingy from RealPlayer, there wasn't anything else found.
Ohhhh - I love trains! Maybe with this new gas price misery, we will see a resurgence of them. Do let us know who the trip went - it sounds dee-lightful!
FHB, isn't it a rush to see weather moving in from that distance? It gives me goose bumps just thinking about it.
What with your pending big buck replacement of your AC unit, I can see where you might have to live with the cranky old hard drive for a while. Sympathies - that truly sucks!
Oh Phlegmmy, the humbirds are tiny, vicious warlords! Mark keeps asking me why I feed them when their behavior reminds me so much of the 'best of' humanity. Good question. Perhaps because they are prettier when the direct sunlight hits them just so.
John and I have been laughing over this ... in our first week in New Mexico we experienced HEAT, COLD, WIND, FOG, HAIL, HEAVY RAIN, DUST, and a TORNADO WARNING. No snow here but it has snowed a lot up on the mountain in the past week. And here I thought I left tornadoes behind in Kansas ... what did I know. Coolest thing is looking west to the Jemez Mountains out my bedroom window and seeing the weather approaching.
That is one of my pet peeves ... people EVERYWHERE who say "Don't like the weather? Just wait five minutes." They say that EVERY PLACE we have ever lived and think they are being clever. We just roll our eyes.
I like your new profile picture, too.
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