MacGyver? Never Saw It

Multiple times over the years, people have mentioned the show MacGyver in relation to my books. It's a show we've never seen. (I know, we're hopelessly out of touch.) So I never knew why Owen McKenna made people think of that character.

Today I looked it up on Wikipedia and it seems the main common ground is that neither McKenna nor MacGyver carry a gun. Another, less obvious, potential point in common is that McKenna sometime finds unusual and clever ways (like MacGyver's duct tape?!) to deal with problems.

When a recent review mentioned MacGyver again, I went to Netflix and looked it up. They have multiple seasons on DVD (We have no streaming at our house - not enough band width.)

So now we've got the first DVD in the queue. I'll report what I think after I watch the show.

Sneak Peek, The Next Owen McKenna

 My new book, McKenna #21, is in the publication pipeline!

Number 21 in the Owen McKenna Tahoe Mystery series

In TAHOE FLIGHT, a murderer is targeting Detective McKenna and his Great Dane Spot along with several doctors who are attending a reunion being held in Tahoe. McKenna can't seem to figure out the connection between the murders, one of the methods of which is especially diabolical. However, McKenna does find out that a huge biplane is involved, and it may be used for his and Spot's last ride...

TAHOE FLIGHT will be in stores come August 1st. And of course, you can always preorder it from Amazon, who will also send it out August 1st.

Whoa, What A Lot Of Snow

 On one side of our house, we access our house through a near tunnel. We step and slide down a vertical wall of snow 15 feet deep.

The other three sides of our house are completely buried.

It's not just that the snow is higher than the second floor. The snow blanket goes across the ground in an even slope up to the top of the roof, windows and skylights buried. You could snowshoe from the street to the top of the roof. 

If you were to snowshoe out into the yard and step off those snowshoes just fifteen feet from the house, you would sink down over your head and not be seen again until sometime in spring.

I love the "water in the bank" that the snowpack provides. But now I'm ready for summer.

The Washington Post Says Tahoe Got 12 Feet In One Week

We keep making the national news.

Another storm will be in process when this gets posted Sunday, March 5th. Do we have enough snow? Yes.

How do I know? Several ways.

We have a shed where we store shed stuff. It has a gable roof, the top of which is about 14 feet high. From some angles, the peak of the shed roof is just a raised, snowy ridge in the yard. However, where the driveway is plowed near one end of the shed, the top of the roof peeks out.

As you can see in this photo, I won't be getting anything out of that shed until May. Or June. We've been in Tahoe 32 years. Some of those years have had a lot of snow. But we've never seen this much.

Another reason I know we've had enough snow is that the house is buried up to the second floor. The windows that look out on the deck have a view of nothing but a vertical wall of snow that I hope doesn't avalanche down and break those windows. I remember what it's like to grill pizza on the deck in the sun, but only just barely. 

Yet another way I know we've had enough snow, is that the National Drought Monitor has decided that our part of California no longer has a drought. (The white areas on the map.)

Check it out: https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/

A good thing, this major snow season. Now I'm ready for uninterrupted sunshine.