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February
2010 Issue
Last Sunday morning, the sky overhead was clear and blue before
the sun had risen above the mountains on the eastern side of the valley.
However, to the north and west, I saw fog hanging along the river.
Imperceptibly, it moved toward us, its gauzy tendrils deftly
obliterating pastures, trees and homes within view.
While I drained the water hose after filling the troughs, the sun
was doing its best to burn off the fog. As it began to dissipate, I
looked to the northwest and, with the sun behind my back, I saw a
phenomenon I had never seen before.
A white arch of cloud shone in the sky. Each of its feet reminded
me of the intensity of light in a rainbow, but they had no color.
My response was, “Wow… cloud bow? Fog bow? What is it?” I
watched for ten minutes until it faded.
Sure enough, I had called it correctly. Wikipedia notes that they
are also called “white rainbows” and that mariners call them “sea
dogs.” ---------------------------------
I recently encountered another type of fog… only this did not
originate in the sky.
The bedroom gets awfully dry in the winter with the heat on and
the window closed, so we bought a humidifier to remedy that problem.
I simply set the amount of humidity I want — say 50% or 60% —
and the machine automatically maintains that level, shutting off or on
as the sensor tells it to. The water levels drops about a half-inch per
night in the reservoir. The only drawback to the machine is that it
casts a luminescent green light into the darkness and disturbs my sleep.
So I decided to carefully put a piece of aluminum foil over the
light to block it. But when I awoke in the morning, something was
really, really wrong!
The room was filled with a fog so thick, I could scarcely
breathe. The carpet around the humidifier was soaked, the bedding was
damp, and beads of water clung to the walls.
Aack! What could have gone wrong? The reservoir was almost empty!
I concluded that the foil must have blocked the sensor and that the
machine kept cranking out a full head of steam all night long!
When I talk to fellow horse magazine publishers from different
parts of the
I respond and say that, while some of the people living in
RMR’s area of distribution might use them, many of us have trouble
just locating a cell phone signal. That is hard to believe for most
urbanites! But, just look at a map of cell coverage in
Not long ago, I was talking with the RMBA’s Jan Finn, who lives
on the east side of
She said that cell signals were sparse in her area, and that
while she kept thinking she should take her cell phone with her when she
went riding, she just never remembered to do so.
I told her that while I get a signal in our valley, the minute I
ride up a trail along one of our numerous mountain creeks, I lose
coverage. So I just turn off my cell phone to save the battery and put
it in my saddlebags.
And upon saying the word “saddlebags,” the thought dawned on
me… where was my cell phone at that exact second?
I had been riding the day before, and sure enough, it was at
home, still hiding out in my saddlebags!!
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