Connie in Ouray

 Eight and half inches yesterday, total for the season now 98.5, and I am so happy!  It's amazing how snow will just make my day.  We are under a winter storm watch from tonight five p.m. until Friday 11:00 p.m., two full days.  Ouray forecast doesn't show that much snow but could be anywhere from one to 20 inches.  Fun with snow  I'm heading to Colorado Springs tomorrow for a few days to catch up with sons, a former neighbor, and my cousin.  Mike will be the official measurer while I'm gone.  I appear to be skirting storms left and right. I forgot to mention last blog that Camp Bird Road above us is closed due to a serious rockfall in the narrows.  It's 200 yards past the winter gate closing the road.  The sign when we turn off 550 onto 361 says all forms of travel are prohibited.   From what I can discern, the rockfall not only damaged the road, but it damaged the underlying infrastrure, and the threat of more rockfall is hug...

 I hope so.  It's not even 11:00 in the morning, and it's 48 degrees on Mineral Farms Lane.  Our road is about half clear, half ice ruts.  The trail is mostly rutted, and there are open spots of no snow.  I've been thinking about bears, how they're normally coming out of hibernation mid-March, but with the warm weather, I'm looking for signs. The forecast for the next couple of weeks have chances of snow, Monday through Friday next week, and then a better chance the week after that.  Hope springs eternal. Too much bare ground!