We decided to go on a reading trip down to Pullman for lunch…Cougarburgers, best hamburgers in the PNW! and a huckleberry-peanut butter shake, as if our sins of yesterday weren’t enough.
We knew it was heading for snow. It’s a 2 hour trip. And the first flakes fell as we arrived back in our own driveway. Now everything is white and coated. So pretty. And we were golden all the way: no weather at all.
We’re glad you made it home before the weather got too “energetic.” I so envy you being able to have the huckleberry-peanut butter shakes. It brings back memories of huckleberry slumps and ShejiCon silliness. Now, back to your diets! Have you decided on dates for the next ShejiCon yet. It’s not too soon for making reservations for those of us using travel points and driving many miles….
Sometimes the magic does work! Glad you are safe and warm at home!
We’re thinking next summer. No date yet. We indeed should start thinking about that. We’re committed to Soonercon and Spokon…but need to do some planning for sure.. And you’re absolutely right about lead time for people planning their travel.
Oh my, yesterday, Tuesday, was the first day we had a typical, all-day rain. It was much needed–we’re something like -8″ down in the rain gauge for the “water year”. Another is coming. I suppose it was responsible for your snow, but unless it pushed that “Arctic Vortex” out ahead of it, I suppose the Midwest is in for real blizzard conditions.
time to start saving for the trip out there………
It’s the first quote warm unquote day in three or four days here. We had a dip from 63 down 40 degrees to about 27 or 28, then up to 43 and down to 25 or lower, and back up. Today was windy but up into the 40’s, and looked grey-stormy all day, no rain but quite overcast. We’re supposed to get down to about 38 tonight and more typical seasonal weather through the rest of the week.
My heater’s fine, my pipes are fine, and hey, I stayed bundled up with the cats at night. So it was all good, except for one afternoon where my feet just would not feel warm, and my sinuses didn’t care for the wild temperature swing.
The cats thought I should do something about the temperature, and didn’t understand why I refused to let them out the past two days. Haha, no, guys, not me!
I’m so glad I live where it’s usually warm. (Except in high summer up past 100, then I start thinking a few hours north would be better….)
Stay warm, everyone!
Now that it’s the rainy season, every couple of weeks we have a real toad-strangler of a rain, which makes everything green go ape. Something has started sporing or pollenating or blooming in the last couple of months that has had a terrible effect on my schnozz — sneezing fits the likes of which God has not seen.
Here on the wet side, we’re FINALLY getting some wet! Its been getting a touch scary, 2013 is officially the second driest year on record (although that includes the end of last winter, which was closer to normal) here, and the driest on record for the next town down the coast. October through about May makes up our rainy season, and normally we have just over 25 inches of rain from October 1 to Jan 1. This year we had 3.7 inches, which is 21.5 inches low! The rivers are all very low and there is no snow pack, so its going to be tough to make up.