WBRV weather station is born!

Citizen Weather Observer Program logo.

Denny loves weather toys too.

Barbara and Denny's homestead.

The cottage in the background of the weather station.

It's official! WBRV officially began transmitting data to the Citizens Weather Observer Program database on Friday, July 31st. Kathy named our station WBRV for Weather (for) Blossom Ridge Vineyard. It was either WBRV or WBRF and BRV (BRaVe) sounded better to her than BaRF for Blossom Ridge Farm. We will upload our weather URL soon. Next up for Kathy is to find out how to be trained as a weather spotter.

A very happy birthday to KJ who turned 41 while on the road in OH yesterday on his way to PA.

We stopped at the Farmer's Market in Roanoke yesterday but got in on the tail end of it. We will have to get around a tad earlier in the future.

Next stop was a Meijer and Wal*Mart for canning supplies (Bonnie is going to put up some pickles and beets) and other supplies, a stop at Smokey Bones for a delicious meal of pulled pork (and a Killian's on draft for Kathy), a visit to the VW dealer to test drive a used Honda Pilot, and then on to the villa to pick up some things that we needed for canning.

Now about this Honda Pilot. Kathy has been totally opposed to getting another car...especially when Bonnie suggested Kathy use HER car for the trade-in. This Pilot is used, with more miles on it than Kathy would like and no warranty. HOWEVER, it was the most wonderful ride we have experienced in a long, long time. Bonnie thought it was a nicer ride than her VW Jetta. This car was a dream to drive...smooth ride and very quiet. Kathy had Bonnie take a railroad track without slowing down and we were sooo impressed with how the Pilot handled the tracks. So we had the dealer look at Bonnie's VW for a trade and Bonnie will be taking Kathy's Focus in for a trade-in value tomorrow. Kathy wants a hitch put on so we can pull a trailer. We need something to haul our supplies and building materials in, and this will do the trick. It has 3 rows of seats, and the third row folds down flat. This thing is fully loaded with leather, a GPS system (we got lost and turned it on and found our way back to the dealership w/o a hitch). Sounds like we have already made up our minds, huh?