Imagine That!

Home again after a quick trip to Susanville to swap vehicles. I got my truck back and returned Bill’s FJ Cruiser. I got the worst end of the deal and I’m glad to have the truck back. And to get to Susanville, we had to make this ill considered trip through a spring snowstorm. It’s been awhile since I last drove through a wintry looking storm, flakes falling fast and furious while the outside temperatures quickly fall. It’s still not fun.

Now that we’re home, I have to wander out to the orchard and see what’s blowing around out there. Hopefully, there will be no trees down.

There was only a loose tarp out there, one that I used to cover the mower from the rain on Saturday. How much rain did we get? I’m sure it rained all of the time I was battling snow. I’m thinking that I would like to get a home weather station; I would know how much rain we had and I would know just how windy it is right now. The forecast says 25 mph gusts and I think they’re closer to 40 mph.

The wind drives me crazy; OK, not really crazy. It just irritates me a lot. Although I do get a certain amount of satisfaction from watching the winds shake the trees while we are snug in our house.

I was reading an article in Wired magazine this morning; one that really spoke to me. So I googled (the verb) “wired einstein” and found this piece from the Seattle P-I with a link. Follow the link or go there directly.

"Imagination is more important than knowledge," a comment from Einstein that should be written on school blackboards 1,000 times by superintendents, principals and teachers. Oh, yes…and parents as well. The young kids already know it; until we forcibly remove it from their psyche.