Absent w/o Leave

Spic and Span laundromat
Laramie, WY
May 2019

Sorry that I went AWOL last week. I don't have a good excuse other than a bad case of the blahs. Like other places in the US, the weather has been nasty and unpredictable. I have a NOAA weather radio and it has been alerting like crazy the last two weeks - severe thunder storms, hail storms, severe winds, and even snow.

approximately 3-4 inches of heavy, wet snow
Tuesday, May 28, 2019
Laramie, WY

Thankfully snow this time of year doesn't stick around very long. Soon the streets and gutters were filled with thick slush.

exit 65 on I-25 (near Slater, WY)
four inches of hail
Sunday, May 26, 2019

Two days earlier, the hail storm that pounded I-25 from Wheatland to Cheyenne was causing my weather radio to alert every 20 minutes until the storm moved into central Nebraska. Reports on Facebook stated the hail stones were ping pong ball to tennis ball sized.

So what did I do through all this chaos? I cleaned the apartment and changed my bedding from Winter to Summer quilts and sheets. Because my washer and dryer are small, I took the comforter to a laundromat and watched it whirl around in the machines for the better part of an hour. Ironically, this is the same laundromat that I used when I was in college.

Today, the sun is shining (for the time being), so hopefully, it will be warmer and the sky clear. I spied flowering trees around town yesterday, so I'm going to stick my neck out and say that Spring has finally arrived in Laramie.