Conscious Generosity!

Wednesday- 27.5 degrees, snowing and blowing. Gradually letting up with gray clouds throughout the day. Snow showers and wind. 33.2 degree high Thursday-2.3 degrees, clear and quiet before dawn, with more powder to muck! Chilly breeze mid to late afternoon, then still. 32.1 degree high Friday- negative 12.5 degrees at 4:00 AM, then mid-level clouds brought the temperatures up to negative 9.5 degrees by 7:00 AM. A bite to the wind and mostly cloudy clearing considerably just before dark. 32.3 degree high Saturday- negative 10.9 degrees, clear early on with mare’s tales cirrus arriving after sun up. Partial high overcast with a fair amount of sun. 38.8 degree high Sunday- 2.1 degrees, clouds overhead kept up from double digits below! Some sun, later on, followed by increasing mids. Gusty wind making a racket around 10:30 PM. 37.6 degree high.

Monday-22.6 degrees, with tiny little snowflakes accumulating amid an inch an hour beginning before first light. No significant wind until the front passed through around 4:00 PM. 22.6 degree high Tuesday- 6.9 degrees, with enough clouds before dawn to keep it from really dropping! Fuzzy gray up and down canyon. Nearly invisible snowflakes midmorning on. No real accumulation on our coldest day so far! 14.9 degrees Wednesday- 5.9 degrees, still with clouds streaming in out of the north and snow blowing at ridgetop.

Folks, it’s just it just ain’t summer anymore up here in the polar hamlet! This is the first weather week with no days above the 30s and every night below 0 except for two, which felt like it! Clouds sneaking overhead when it was dark cost us beating out the competition for being the coldest place in Colorado. However, it will be a long winter -out ahead-so. Here’s hoping!

We began the week with a 5.5-inch storm (with more elsewhere in town) and then had 6.7 inches that I measured Monday into Tuesday. We practice conscious generosity.

Up here in Silverton, we look out for each other. We are glad to give and grateful to receive. Just like breathing! If you have lived here all your life- I’m preaching to the choir! If you are new around here- don’t be bashful. Get to know your neighbors- which all of us are! Conscious generosity: giving and receiving- out and in-so go, give it a go!