We are almost to the shortest day of the year. This is the time of year I can truthfully say I am always up before sunrise. At this time of the year, the days feel shorter than anywhere else I have lived. I got to wondering just how much shorter.. the amount of daylight on…
Category: Wyoming, general
Musgrave Speaks at Wyoming Lego League
The First Lego League Wyoming state competition kicked off tonight with a talk from Story Musgrave. Mr. Musgrave has led a very interesting life. Thirty some years with NASA, more flight time in a Northrop T38 than anyone else on the planet, and six space flights. He oversaw the maintenance of the Hubble Space Telescope…
An Uncommonly Warm Autumn
We finally registered a hard frost in the town of Casper, Wyoming. Now, the folks out on the prairie got their killing frost way back in September- much more the norm for central Wyoming. Our average first frost date is somewhere around the end of August to the first week in September, so you can…
Still Have Coffee Money
If the incredibly long line at Starbucks this morning is any indication, people in Casper, Wyoming still have coffee money. Coffee seems to hover somewhere nearer ‘necessity’ than ‘luxury’ for many Americans. I’m not given to exaggeration, so I won’t claim coffee is anything near a real necessity- like water, food and air, but it…
Where is Wyoming?
Found this charming post Never Say Never, or You’ll End Up Moving There and had to chuckle. Transplants to Wyoming often display a kind of astonishment that they are here. I don’t personally know anybody who proclaimed they’d never live in Wyoming, as in the mentioned post, but I think that’s because many US residents…
Wyoming Rain Showers
According to the Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network (CoCoRaHS – just say it a few times to an island beat, and you’ll be able to remember it), it rained 0.17 of an inch last night. I’m thankful for any rain that lets me go another day without watering my yard.
Wyoming State Fossil
My kids just got back from a camping trip where they found lots of Belamnite fossils. (Yes, they found them on private land.) I’ve seen these fossils on hikes, but I’ve never found out much about them. They are very common in the Cretaceous rock layers of Wyoming. I was interested to find out more…
County Fairs
I’m usually surprised when I realize there are some kids in central Wyoming who have had no contact with farm animals. At a recent 4h event for kindergartners, a few kids couldn’t identify goats or ponies. I guess that’s one of the reasons I’m a fan of county fairs. County fairs are family friendly events…
A Very Wet Spring
Just coming out of what has to be one of the wettest springs in Central Wyoming history. You can see precip data at the Water Resource Data System (WRDS.) All the numbers for the lower North Platte are close to, or over, 100%. The North Platte is still full bank to bank, and if…
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