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I went up to Preston, Idaho this evening to do a little training with the National Weather Service and to register to be a local weather spotter with the SKYWARN program. If I explained it, I would tell all sorts of lies that made me sound much cooler than I am, so here is an exact quote from the SKYWARN website:
"Although SKYWARN® spotters provide essential information for all types of weather hazards, the main responsibility of a SKYWARN® spotter is to identify and describe severe local storms."
We can send reports during or after weather events that help the National Weather Service with various things, such as understanding certain weather events better or help get information out quick about weather events. They make reports on things that they use for all sorts of other things, so, ambiguously speaking, we help the NWS do important things. We can report via phone, internet, or on a HAM radio. Already on our list of things to do this summer is to become HAM radio licensed, so, we hope to watch some serious weather at some point and be able to report it.
On a side note on radios...we also want to get CB radios rigged in our vehicle...but don't worry, our finances have their priorities...
Oh, and if you want to become a weather spotter for your area, you can read up on it here: SKYWARN
(there would be more to spot and report back east)
That is the most exciting thing I've done this week. We have been doing some work on the exterior of our house to beautify it and keep the bug population down. They fixed some pipes when we moved in, digging up part of the front lawn. There have been 2 big mounds of dirt since, so, rather than wait a year or so for the clay to finally settle down, we shoveled it into Myles' truck and hauled it off. If it finally sinks this year, we'll find someone getting rid of dirt and fill 'er in again and re-seed it. But, our yard looks WAY better without the big eyesore mounds that even the neighbors wanted removed. We have a bit more dirt to move, then I'm going to spray down the siding of the house, cleaning it and removing lots of spider webs and such. The shrubbery is growing a lot too, so that'll be trimmed back a bit eventually. It ain't much, but there's enough work to keep me satisfied.
Pretty standard week. Scatterball Thursday again. Hoping to do our first campfire up the canyon this Saturday. Yep. Livin' the life.
Song of the Day is a fun one I really like and the name is quite a mouthful. It is "Notturna la musica delle strade di Madrid no. 6" by: Luigi Boccherini. If you have seen the awesome movie Master and Commander, then you might recognize it. I love that movie and I love hearing this song in it. Enjoy!
"Although SKYWARN® spotters provide essential information for all types of weather hazards, the main responsibility of a SKYWARN® spotter is to identify and describe severe local storms."
We can send reports during or after weather events that help the National Weather Service with various things, such as understanding certain weather events better or help get information out quick about weather events. They make reports on things that they use for all sorts of other things, so, ambiguously speaking, we help the NWS do important things. We can report via phone, internet, or on a HAM radio. Already on our list of things to do this summer is to become HAM radio licensed, so, we hope to watch some serious weather at some point and be able to report it.
On a side note on radios...we also want to get CB radios rigged in our vehicle...but don't worry, our finances have their priorities...
Oh, and if you want to become a weather spotter for your area, you can read up on it here: SKYWARN
(there would be more to spot and report back east)
That is the most exciting thing I've done this week. We have been doing some work on the exterior of our house to beautify it and keep the bug population down. They fixed some pipes when we moved in, digging up part of the front lawn. There have been 2 big mounds of dirt since, so, rather than wait a year or so for the clay to finally settle down, we shoveled it into Myles' truck and hauled it off. If it finally sinks this year, we'll find someone getting rid of dirt and fill 'er in again and re-seed it. But, our yard looks WAY better without the big eyesore mounds that even the neighbors wanted removed. We have a bit more dirt to move, then I'm going to spray down the siding of the house, cleaning it and removing lots of spider webs and such. The shrubbery is growing a lot too, so that'll be trimmed back a bit eventually. It ain't much, but there's enough work to keep me satisfied.
Pretty standard week. Scatterball Thursday again. Hoping to do our first campfire up the canyon this Saturday. Yep. Livin' the life.
Song of the Day is a fun one I really like and the name is quite a mouthful. It is "Notturna la musica delle strade di Madrid no. 6" by: Luigi Boccherini. If you have seen the awesome movie Master and Commander, then you might recognize it. I love that movie and I love hearing this song in it. Enjoy!
"You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him."
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