weather was moving in they called this storm an atmospheric river
it would bring with it much needed rain and snow to the west
along with heavy winds for me that meant hunkering down in a safe place to ride it out
it's raining
can't even see the mountains today
there's a winter advisory just a few miles north of here it's supposed to dump about
four to five feet of snow there's been a ton of rain overnight it hasn't stopped hasn't let up
luckily the winds have calmed down a little bit because there was also a wind advisory
wind gusts up to 55 miles per hour uh it seems to have calmed down a bit though thankfully
it's definitely not a day to be out driving so i'm just hunkered down here at camp just
gonna wait the thing out it's supposed to only last through today tomorrow supposed to be a
really nice day hopefully we'll see a bunch of snow all over these mountains in the morning
that should be awesome i would love that it was really nice hearing the sounds of the rain
all night long on the camper i actually enjoy that and i'm enjoying it right now
no sooner did i say the winds had calmed down and they kicked back up again quite a bit so
we're rocking and rolling in here
she's a windy one out there thank goodness for a roof over my head and for some comfort food
hmm
the temps have dropped it was 58 when i woke up this morning
and now it's 45. i thought it was feeling a little bit cooler
obviously i don't have wi-fi out here so i use my phone as a hot spot i was grandfathered
into an old a t plan that i had many years ago which was a real unlimited data plan
and i've had that ever since the only caveat is i can never change my plan they supposedly
will throttle me down after a certain amount of usage but that doesn't seem to ever happen
and as long as i have a good cell signal i can stream
through my computer i can upload my videos i can do my work and it all works pretty well
stormy days allow time to pause reflect and dream of future adventures
it's just a light sprinkle right now so i thought i'd come out and get this shot of the
white mountains with a beautiful dusting of snow
do
well as it turns out i didn't have to wait until tomorrow to see the snow-capped mountain peaks
i was not expecting it to clear up it's absolutely stunning
this has been an awesome day i have chosen some more comfort food for dinner and i
picked a recipe out that i could do on my stove top it's a skillet chili i've never
made it before but i'm gonna make it tonight these are pretty much all of my ingredients
i just need to get everything chopped and prepped and then i have my recipe right there
calls for draining and rinsing the kidney beans i've already drained them
rinse them
i don't put that kind of stuff down the drain
only water if if at all possible so drain it into here and that'll eventually go in the trash
for my dry ingredients i need four tablespoons of chili powder
one teaspoon of oregano dried oregano and one teaspoon of salt okay we stirred
up by cooking the ground beef with the peppers the onions and garlic
it is smelling really good in here tomato juice it's a couple tomatoes
in there but i'm sure that's okay half a cup of water and all of the spices
we'll get that stirred around real well
well the clouds have rolled back in and it is super windy again
okay it is done it looks amazing
holy moly mother nature is laughing because i thought the worst of the storm was passed but
i think that this wind is the worst it's been during this entire storm
it's crazy anyhow i am going to try this chili it looks mighty tasty
very good perfect for a cold windy blustery stormy night
it looks like the storm has passed and it wound up being an absolutely beautiful sunset what a
crazy day crazy rain wind more wind and then it wound up clearing up to be absolutely beautiful
and what a treat to be able to see all this fresh snow on the mountains thank you all for riding the
storm out with me i think i'm just going to go ahead and crawl up in my bed and do some reading
maybe watch some netflix and just wind down for the day after all the excitement i think that i'll
be safe to get back on the road tomorrow so that i can head to my next destination so make sure to
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