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Last night on the drive home from Rutland, I hit a downpour just to the east of Killington. After a couple of minutes I was out of it and the sun was soon out. The storm was going east at about the same rate I was. I was driving looking at one of the most intense colored rainbows I have seen lately. It was seldom a full arc but fantastic. The drive was beautiful with the late evening sun, the low white clouds in parts of the dark green forested valleys and the intensive contrast of the dark storm, spots of blue skies. 35 miles of bliss, the rainbow was still going when I got home. Signs of some washouts on the dirt roads near home and miraculously the broken maple caught up above the parking area at my house was still held by the other trees. I need that hurricane to come and save me some work.

We have a colonial with a center staircase. With a window fan in one upstairs window opposite the front door, the cool air really works its way in for us. The elevation, early shade, and early sunset really help prevent the house getting too hot as well. So far that week in early July 2018 has easily been the worst in our 4 years in this house.

57 here. Pleasant morning with the windows open.

So Alabama is safe? Fake news!

After abandoning the sweater look, Powder Freak started wearing 70's suits and was elected mayor of Amity- which means friendship.

It was 59 at the house when I went for my run at 5:15. Ran with a long sleeve tech shirt on.

Does the moose not know the need to have a mask while hiking for when you need to share the trail? Good thing you socially distanced yourself.

Yeah, I had a typo. I put "not" instead of "now". Digger used to be a place where the comments were helpful and often included people who were involved in the story or policy makers. Then the CAX crowd moved in. For a paper with a leftist slant, the comments had a very right wing slant. It was rather incongruous.

My favorite one is the person who moved here to get away from people from out of state. Kettle meet pot. In all seriousness, why do you check those pages? It just seems depressing and angering. Every now and then I would read the WCAX comments and quickly be reminded at how nasty the world can be. They shut down the comment eventually and those folks moved to VT Digger who have now shut their comments. It is brutal but is sometimes just the same ten names over and over. Enjoy your summer and enjoy Killington and stay off Facebook.

I was in Peacham that season. We ended up with 41" and the largest was on 12/29 with 5.5 inches. The breakdown was: 2015-16 Biggest 12/29 5.5 first, 10/17 last 5/16 Oct- .5 Nov. .5 Dec 7.0 Jan 11.0 Feb: 13.4 Mch 3.7 Apr 4.7 May .2 Total: 41.0 The other years in Peacham where I tracked seasonal totals were: 2011-12 76.0 2012-13 102.2 2013-2014 total 105.0 2014-15- Total: 111.6

Was it visible with the naked eye or did you use binoculars?

Consider parts of the Champlain Valley as it does not retain snow compared to the rest of Vermont. You can observe this for a bit as you visit your daughter.

Trees would indicate it is at least a few months old

Live free or die. Worst I have ever had it was the summer of 03. We were living in W. Warwick RI at the time. The neighborhood sounded almost like a warzone on July 4. The dogs were manic. Making it hard to understand was that we lived about 4 blocks from the Station Nightclub and the fire had just been about 4 months earlier. Only having one neighbor within a half a mile has lessened this issue.

Good to hear they were okay. I am just shocked that there are trees left in Tolland to fall down. I would have thought they all would have come down the past 5 years based on the number of downed trees and power lines we have seen over the years.

Meltwater is pouring off the roof now. I'll be out working in the yard soon this afternoon at this rate.

Another picture:

Sun is coming out more frequently and we are up to 34 now so the melting has begun. Last measurement gives us 2.6".

2 inches on the outside table, clumpy on the ground depending on where there is grass, wet ground, etc. That poor birch above the wheelbarrow has been bent over since a storm in January? when we had snow then ice then snow and it then didn't melt off the trees for over a week. 30f and light snow at the moment.

Funny but I was thinking about that everytime I hit a rock yesterday. Yup this is why they all moved to Ohio.

I spent the weekend building stone steps up the embankment of the backyard. Our property has a large number of rocks everywhere and whenever I have done any digging, I inevitably hit a large stone somewhere. When I was digging the raised beds I ended up lining the outsides with stones from the beds instead of wood. I frequently had to resort to using a prybar to get the biggest ones out of the earth. So yesterday and today I took about 25 of the biggest flat stones and built a staircase. Hardest parts were when I would hit stones where I was trying to dig out to put the steps in. The other aggravating factor is that the lower part is very wet this time of year so the area I would dig would fill with water and muck. It was pretty fun yesterday with the COC day haowever. In terms of mulch, our town has a shed outside the transfer station. In the winter there is salted grit any resident can go and get. The other 4 months there is free mulch- mostly pine. I just go with about twenty containers and fill away. I did that a week or so ago on a day the dump was closed so it was quiet. It is a nice perk the town does.

but wait there's more... another 1.1 overnight 18.7 for the event now.

Looked like a little under 1.5 inches during the day today, 17.6 for the event

17.2 here after getting another 3.5 since 10:30 last night. Still snowing.

been ripping 4" since 7:30, 13.7 so far on the day