Wednesday, February 27, 2019 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon The Bunkhouse Chronicle Craig Rullman Columnist A mediation in white I9m writing this on Sunday morning, during the first real snowstorm we9ve enjoyed this year4though I almost didn9t believe it was going to happen. I stopped believing the weather woman about two months ago. This was a deliberate act of rebellion because riding the predic- tion roller-coaster was dam- aging my nerves and upset- ting the dogs. Calls for snow this winter have too often dissembled into blue skies, warm chinooks, and mud in the paddocks, and although I have sympathy for anyone who signs up to predict the weather in Central Oregon my stores of good humor were used up three fake storms ago. But, for some reason, I believed her this time. More importantly, I planned ahead. Instead of the humiliation of standing in line for the ice- melt lottery at Ace 4 which some of you may remember from a few years ago 4 I now have enough ice-melt on hand for the next decade and diesel to run my tractor well into the next presiden- tial election 4 which is its own kind of storm. Also, I have an industrial, shock-proof, carbon-fiber, high-speed roof rake. This kind of snow was not something I prepared for 4 despite knowing better 4 back in the Snowpocalypse of 917, which hit Sisters Town like a fuel-air bomb, collapsing barns and build- ings, morphing light fix- tures into waterfalls, flood- ing basements, turning