Kit’s Note: So as would happen, I actually started this blog about two weeks ago. The good weather came want went, but then we had another bout of severe weather over this past weekend. I realized I’d never finished this blog and frankly it’s sentiments seemed even more important now.
In terms of the weather (we’re still dealing with the aftermath including some repairs that need to be made), the three week nightmare appears to be over for not just the Missouri Ozarks, but a large swath of the country. I’m a weather geek. I freely admit it. And living in the Midwest all my life, I’m no stranger to the Storm Prediction Center’s convective outlook and looking at it on a regular basis. I can tell you in the last thirty to thirty-five years that I’ve regularly watched it from spring to fall, I have never seen such a prolonged and more importantly large area for enhanced/moderate risk of severe weather on multiple days. Like I’m talking from Arkansas to Iowa over to Ohio and down through the mid-South. That’s a lot of territory, y’all. But thankfully, the ten-day forecast shows at least a week of calm, sunny weather, and possibly a bit more.
The horses and I are thankful. I think I’m more thankful than many because as my note indicated I started this blog (okay the first paragraph and previous line), before this past weekend’s severe weather when we had a tornado warning get just a little too close to home. I noticed today one of the horses rolling in the clover, getting that itchy spot, before romping around the pasture. They seem to enjoy the sun, the mild temperatures, and the drying ground as well.
It was a long, colder than normal winter here, and then as soon as it warmed up the storms started. So I am very much behind on a lot of the work I wanted to get done outside. However, if all goes well, after class tomorrow I will finally finish a project begun last fall. There will be more to do, of course, but at least the largest bulk of the project is done. And then, I can move onto the next one.
So hello sun, my old friend. It’s really good to see you again.
