No Rain...

Again it is grey, cloudy and overcast; and the wind picked up around 2 this morning. About 4:30 yesterday afternoon the kits wanted out, and as I opened the patio door for them all I could smell was rain. It smelled so strong, that I looked up to see if it was raining... but there was no sign of any wetness; apparently we had heavy virga, but because it was so dry the rain evaporated before it got to the ground. The current wind speed outside is 32 mph, with gusts... between the wind and the fact that I didn't sleep well, I'm not walking the Irish kids today. The kits have been out this morning, but after both were blown sideways by the wind, they opted to come back inside. Denver got some patchy rain yesterday, and today is fighting a dense ground fog.

Let's see, here are some little morsels of news that interested me:
* Tiger Woods and his wife have named their new son, born yesterday, Charlie Axel Woods.
* Some idiots in Parker (a suburb of Denver) have been going out to a draft horse farm, and have cut all the long hair off the horse's tails. The original news story stated that their tails had been cut off - and I was horrified; then it turned out the hair had been cut; but that's almost as bad, as the horses now have no way to swish flies. The perpetrators cut off the thickest and longest tails on the older horses, and these horses will probably never have a normal tail again before their deaths of old age...
* Local sportscasters were upset that during the week before the Pro Bowl Jay Cutler (the Broncos' QB) got dumped in the hotel pool by Peyton Manning and a couple of the other men. Peyton had made sure that Jake did not have his cell phone on him, but he completely forgot about Jay's blood glucose monitor. (As a newly diagnosed Type I diabetic, Jay has to check his blood sugar levels 15 times per day...) His monitor fried in the pool, and the local newsmen were in an uproar about Jay getting the correct type of monitor to replace his. Having had a diabetic husband, and knowing the kind of salary Jay gets, I had to laugh... My husband kept 3 glucose monitors around the house. I'm sure Jay had a replacement handy.
* Tomorrow Boulder will celebrate it's 150th birthday and the local papers are full of history and old headlines. I'm having a wonderful time reading the historic news stories.

There is a red-shafted flicker clinging to the sunflower feeder right now, a pigeon is huddled in the corner of the patio, and there are 6 squirrels tussling over the three piles of peanuts. Both Lovey and Banichi are sleeping. And someone on the top floor of the Harvest House Hotel has left their balcony door open and the wind is tearing their curtain to pieces - the kits watched it for some time before they fell asleep. I'm going to try to do some research on Captain John Rollins - birth and death dates unknown, but he married Elizabeth Lee in 1860 - this might prove to be interesting...