Winter Storm Warning

The weather forecast not only changed last night, there was a winter storm warning issued for all of Western Wyoming. There is a storm coming today and tomorrow that will dump 6-12 inches of snow in the elevations above 8500 feet, and 3-6 inches below 8500 feet. We are at 6800 feet here at the lodge. It has started raining - heavily - already this morning and as of 8 AM we have had over .30 inches of rain for the day. Our high for today is forecast at 50 degrees with an overnight low tonight of 30. It seems like we will have some photos coming of snow in the Tetons when it all ends by Friday. All of the current radar reports show snow in the mountains occurring as I write this entry.

Our TV has been acting up recently and following a long conversation and attempts to diagnose the problem with DirecTV yesterday, they are shipping a new (replacement) receiver to us. It will take 5 business days to arrive here via FedEx. We hope that it arrives in time for us to install before we have to leave. We were hoping it would be some setting that needed to be changed, but it is a progressive problem that cannot be fixed. The picture is jittery and the picture rolls on occasion with other annoying distortions thrown in.

As we reach the final week of our stay, we are looking at a couple deliveries that need to occur. Aside from the TV receiver, we are expecting delivery of the rug we purchased over a week ago that needs to arrive from New Mexico. That is suppose to arrive today, and we are concerned that we are not able to get any status updates on that shipment. Our phone calls to the company have gone unanswered. They are a company that comes to our lodge a couple times a year to market their rugs outside on the front lawn at our lodge, so it should be easy to get their attention if there is a problem.

Our final work day for this week is today with only two more days of "off" time before finishing up with our last three days at the lodge. We will hang on and hope that the snow doesn't create too many problems in the area...