We've had a gloomy day, no sunshine and this evening, as I write this, we're having a thunderstorm with hail, tap-tapping on the window. We get interesting echoes of the thunder with the shock waves bouncing off the mountains which, a mile or so east of the house, shoot up another 3000 ft. The peaks will be getting snow.
Given the geometry - those peaks cast a big shadow - our sunrises aren't early. I'm okay with that as I'm a bit of a night owl, normally up past midnight.
Believe it or not, in our WY valley along the ID border the only restaurant we find reliably acceptable is a casual seafood place. Yep, here we are some 900 miles from the nearest ocean and we have a decent seafood restaurant. Go figure.
My usual meal there is a hollowed-out boule filled with excellent clam chowder and they aren't chintzy with the clams. The other DrC normally orders fish and chips, but today had the coconut shrimp and chips and pronounced it good.
