Greetings and salutations, everyone; yes, once again it is I, Mani the purebred border collie, filling in for the guy I live with, and here today to bring you a weather update.
You may remember me from such posts as “Practically Nothing”, among so many, many others.

Here I am in a characteristic pose.
It’s easy to see what happened here last night. We received 0.99 inches (2.5cm) of water from snow.
I hardly need to say that this is totally excellent, and, for now, as they guy I live with said, we’re out of the endless loop of dry weather and wind.
(The title of my post indicates that this won’t last; it’s supposed to be 87 degrees F –30.5C–next week.)

Earlier this week, I had to go to the doctor’s for a flu booster shot. We purebred border collies can get the flu just like humans do.
I saw a goat.
I’d never seen a goat, though I knew there was something behind that fence.
The guy I live with had to drag me back to the car. I wanted to look at the goat more.

Then a couple of days ago the guy I live with posted pictures on Facebook of Papilio multicaudata, the western two-tailed swallowtail, visiting Fendlera rupicola.
Here they are.
All sorts of flying things visit the fendlera. (We have other plants of this in the garden but they aren’t old enough to flower. It can take quite a while for that to happen.)

We also have mice in the house again. The guy I live with assigned me the new job of Mouse Trap Inspector, because I can see the mice better than he can. He baits the traps with pieces of sour cream and onion potato chips.
This is before the guy I live with let the mouse go, out into the garden.
So that’s our news for today. Even though we’re going back to the endless loop next week, they say we may have an active monsoon season this year, and a wetter than usual summer. That would be nice.

Until next time, then.