The rain clouds have departed from the Yukon for the moment, leaving a blocking high with clear blue skies and brilliant sunshine. The high also means it gets cold at night; the past two nights have been at the freezing point or a couple of degrees below. The beans that Isa hopefully sows each year are blighted just as they were blossoming.
Another kind of storm rages at the moment, a new kind of weather that I'm only now becoming familiar with — e-mail storms. The e-mails fly thick and fast in all directions as this poor bush-rat tries to follow half a dozen or more exchanges of communication at once while flying through smoke and flames. Ten days ago I rashly started a Yahoo Groups e-mail list that has taken flight beyond my wildest expectations. On and off-list communications threaten to defeat the possibility of doing any work offline. Since the "SeppalaSiberianSleddog" group has public message archives, I might as well give you a link to it:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SeppalaSiberianSleddog/
If this frantic electronic activity means anything, it seems probable that some critically important decisions will soon be forthcoming from Continental Kennel Club with respect to their Seppala Siberian Sleddog registry, and that the natives are restless in all Seppala camps. It could be that the coming opposition of the planet Mars has some influence here. What bothers me is whether this sudden storm of electronic weather means the breed, like the beans, will be nipped by frost just as it's starting to bloom.
Posted by jjeffrey at August 10, 2003 09:20 PM