I love snow. It’s particularly nice when I don’t have to drive in it—we’re well-stocked: I did my grocery run yesterday—but it’s just sifting down like fine powder. Not uncommon for us. They only forecast half an inch, but I think we’ve already got that.<\/p>\n
Spokane is a hilly town. Our downtown is literally ‘down,’ so it, on the riverside, may not get as much as those of us who live on the heights, and we’re about middling. Our altitude is about 2000 feet here, and probably we’re about 2300 where we are. 2000 is the break-point for getting snow and getting rain, so it can be pretty fickle on some days. Mt Spokane is pushing 6000 feet absolute elevation—subtract 2000 for its base. It’s a skiing mountain, and boasts the first double chair lift ever built. Which seems to be what’s still there.<\/p>\n
It used to have a huge shiny globe atop (in 1932) in honor of [fatherhood???] Yep. That’s what they say. But the thing disappeared, perhaps at the hand of somebody who likes mountains not to be defaced by large shiny globes: they’ve never found what happened to it. My bet is rolled off down the mountain. 360 degrees gives you a choice of a lot of rugged hiding spots.<\/p>\n
At least we’re getting snow now, even if the rest of the week is going to be striped rain and ice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I love snow. It’s particularly nice when I don’t have to drive in it—we’re well-stocked: I did my grocery run yesterday—but it’s just sifting down like fine powder. Not uncommon for us. They only forecast half an inch, but I think we’ve already got that. Spokane is a hilly town. Our downtown is literally ‘down,’ […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":751,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/751"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}