It was a flying trip to Susanville! Because of the probability of ice on the road, Ralph didn't want to leave until around 10:00, and then we left Susanville at 3:30 (Counting in drive time, we weren't there very long!) The drive over was beautiful - sunny and relatively warm. Then.....we hit the inversion layer! Around the Hog Flat/McCoy Flat area, we hit the cloud layer, and the temperatures dropped. It was over 40 at our house, and held pretty steady - colder in the mountains, but not really dropping too much below freezing, and then it was foggy and 20 degrees!


These were taken just after hitting the fog.



This tree is on the corner going in to Mom's house - the pogo nip turned the whole landscape into ice! (pogo nip - frozen fog)


These are from Mom's back property - beautiful, but cold! It was 45 at our house, and 22 at hers! The crystals are not snow - they are actually fog that has frozen on everything.

Even if it was cold, it was a good visit. The neighbors had given Mom a ham, so she decided to cook it for Christmas. She knew it was a large ham, but it didn't have the weight marked on it. She weighed in on the scales to see how long to cook it, and it was 30 pounds! (That meant it needed to cook for almost 8 hours, and she weighed it around 10:00 a.m.) We barely put a dent in it for Christmas dinner.