It's snowing again this morning.  Barely had time for the last one to melt off.  We need the moisture, always do, though this has been the first wet winter in recent memory.  The late snows and frosts are providing a proper challenge in the orchard.... apricots budded and blossomed during a break in the weather about three weeks ago, caught the snowfall and hard freeze, partially blossomed again last week and another freeze and snowfall caught them.  That was a week ago.

The apples, plums and pecans were a bit more cunning, held back with those blossoms waiting for more assurance the winter's over, savoring the moisture without trying to get a jump on things.  The grapes put out some tentative runners, but didn't actually commit to anything important.  Those grapes are probably 100 years old.  They've seen a lot of tricky winters here, same as the pecans and apples.  No Johnny-Come-Lately freeze is going to mug them if they can help it.

The Power Ball Lottery continued as a Communist last draw, hanging back trying to pretend it doesn't have a system, but still drifting back toward the patterns enough so I was able to pick 3 of the 6 numbers, but spread over 5 tickets with 14 numbers.  No pay.  Didn't hit the redball.

But yesterday while I was browsing around looking at past draws from different directions I think I finally got a clue how the redballs behave, at least enough to have intermittent success predicting them.  I probably ought to back-test it more, but frankly, the thought repels me.  I've been looking at those numbers too long, too many ways lately.  I think I'll just ride it along and make my tests as I go.

Looking over all those spreadsheets, creating more of them yesterday, I came across some patterns I hadn't noticed before.  Decided to give them a rudimentary test using only a few draws from MM, just for grins.  Posted the skeleton as a prediction for the Tuesday MM draw. 

15, 24, 31, 47, 52 +  50 

I'm thinking if the pattern has any validity 2-3 of those numbers ought to hit if it's a bad day, more if it's a good one.

So.  What the hell is a blog?  I guess this is what one is.

Jack