More Snow

It's been snowing again for several hours. The power flickered about 25 minutes ago. So, I should be doing chores that require labor saving devices. Can you say v-a-c-u-u-m? I got a load of laundry started. Should charge the cell phone. But I thought the blogosphere could use a couple more pictures of snow. Doug and I went Christmas shopping last night, for the 2nd time, oh, and the last. The first Christmas shopping trip was only 1 hour long. Doug is at work today. Danny is off to work today. I want to go see my mom today, but I'm going to wait until later and incorporate it into my trip to church for the evening, which will start in the late afternoon. Tyler and I will figure out how to store the garbage which we can't get rid of because the garbage didn't get picked up last week. Sooo Christmasy! Merry Christmas everybody. The world is beautiful, hazardous and difficult to deal with. Oh, let's celebrate God's indescribable gift anyway!

Monday Morning

More snow ...............

Good night

Still snowing. Snowing again. We lost power for about 5 hours this evening, but it's back on now. Way past bedtime.

snowy

It's 8:45 Saturday evening. I don't plan to go out there an measure that snow, but I'm thinking that the new, plus the old, is about 10 inches. The forecast is for between 9 and 22 inches of snow by tomorrow morning. It is snowing steadily, tiny icy particiles. They look much more "snow flakey" in this picture than they really are. Still have power. No wind. Temp in low 20's.

Merry Christmas

I knew yesterday was my birthday, because we decorated the tree!

More about Lyle

Photographing Lyle
Trains in Lyle
The Columbia River at Lyle Point

celebrating 30 years

In the words (more or less) of Jackson Browne ....."The next thing I remember I was all moved in, and he was buying me a washing machine." Our dishwasher has been faltering, but Doug is investigating. It's not nearly as old as we are! Before household repairs, we celebrated this past weekend with a stay at the Lyle Hotel, on the Washington side of the Columbia River.
We drove over to the Oregon side and got to see what the little town of Lyle looks like from Rowena Crest on the historic scenic hwy 30.
One of the places we stopped was the Columbia Gorge Discovery Center. There is a raptor center there and one of the birds they had rescued was a Northern Sawhet Owl, only about 7 or 8 inches tall. He had lost an eye because of being hit by a car. His name is Hootie.








We also drove to Goldendale one night and met up with Lydia and Dave for dinner and a trip to the observatory. That was a unique experience. We didn't get to gaze much at stars because of lots of fog, although we did get to look through the telescope. Doug and I drove back through Goldendale on our way home, up the Klickatat River along the route that was used in the olden days by the

Goldendale-Lyle railroad. That was a great drive. We had our first picnic in the eurovan (I still think of it as a bus). I'll post those pictures later today.