The week in review.....

Kevin and Martha learned how to use public transportation this week. Due to the snow comet that hit (see earlier post), we sunny Californians didn't feel safe driving. So we took the Max train into downtown where Kevin was able to walk to work. Martha had to take a bus to her office, and on Monday, she had to walk up the hill in the snow because the bus couldn't get up it since there were two buses broken down at the bottom. Tuesday she had to wait almost half an hour for the bus to even come. Wednesday, Kevin brought her home some snow boots!! Yay!!

Monday I took a few pictures of my cubicle it all it's Christmas finery. And do you know that I didn't get a single hippo for Christmas?!? Had to buy them all myself!! Probably a good thing I didn't get any more. Some day I will take a picture of the awesome Swatch hippo watch I found a few months ago!! So me!!

That's the lyrics for the song that are on the poster. Just in case anyone wanted to sing to me!

This hippo head is actually attached to a body, it hung so nicely over my cubicle wall though. Alas, it is on loan and will have to be returned when I take the decorations down...

On Monday, when I took these pictures, I was one of about 9 people that came in to an office that is usually filled with about 85 - 90 people. Got in about 8:45 and then got a ride home with someone who was brave enough to drive. We left about two and when I got home, I discovered that the lights were out!! The went out sometime Monday morning and were out until sometime Tuesday morning. So we took the mattress off the guest bed and slept in front of the fireplace. Here is an exciting picture of it below......

Okay, I took one with the flash on too, but it doesn't look like the lights are out in that one!!! Kevin said that it was the best night's sleep he's had in a long time!! We somehow managed to have hot water on Tuesday morning so I took a shower, but I got out of the shower and could see my breath it was so darned cold!! That's just wrong!! Plus I had to dry my hair by the heat of the fire. So I had a REALLY bad hair day!! Had several people tell me that my hair was...flat.

So, somehow we muddled through and made it to Christmas. We just had a couple of small gifts for each other as we both were going to have Friday off and planned to hit the after Christmas sales.

I got a Life Is Good shirt and some socks!! Mookie checked it out and approved. It has a dog on it so it's all good!!

As it turned out, both of us ended up having to work on Friday what with missing so much work and other people not being able to make it in. So we hit the mall on Friday night and then went out again on Saturday morning. I made quite a haul!!! Have been doing laundry ever since we got home Saturday to get all the stuff clean.

Back to work tomorrow, and then we are expecting Kevin's nephew Chris, and his wife Ashley to come up from Redding, CA on Wednesday to celebrate New Years!! I hope that they are able to get over the mountain passes and all the snow to get up here. Once they get here, there should be no problem. Believe it or not, almost all of our snow has now melted away........

It's a White Sand Christmas

We are celebrating Christmas, "Island Style" in Key West this year. When we arrived at the beach, Z ran towards the water...he should have been a fish. While he was chasing the turtles on his way to the water, he made a friend, the "Sandman" who was protecting the coast. He may not be cold, but he does have seaweed arms, a driftwood nose, and two eyes made out of shells.Then Z decided to play Godzilla with the Sandman.

Because the Sandman wouldn't play with him, Z decided that he would shout, "Off with his head!!".

We were so proud of his command of the troops, that we decided to give him a wonderful sunset to party with.

The aftermath of the ice comet!!!

Kevin holds a remnant of the comet!! Actually, we had about a quarter inch of ice form on top of the snow that fell yesterday. So when Kevin walked on it, it broke into pieces!! Mookie could walk on it just fine!! Not that he really wanted to!

This is an icicle hanging from our icicle lights!! Pretty huh? Just checked on it a bit ago and it seems to be melting, but they are saying there is possibly more freezing rain on the way tonight. We are planning on bussing/light railing it tomorrow. If we can figure out how!!!

OH NO NOT AGAIN!!!

Old man winter is at it again up here. We are barely getting over the last storm and he is wholloping us again!! They were predicting between 6 to 10 inches for the valley floor.



This is the view from our kitchen window. So beautiful and peaceful. It almost makes washing dishes fun!

Kevin decided to use a low-tech measuring tool for our weather report. It was 2" in the back yard at about 3:45pm.

And 4+ inches in the front yard at 5:30 pm!! Fun stuff. I'm already worrying about how we are going to get to work on Monday. But wait I may have scarier things to worry about....

SNOW DAY!!!

I figured while we were waiting for the first Jazzy posting I would post a few pictures of today's Portland weather!! We got hit pretty good with a snow storm. We don't usually see this much snow and to actually have it stick is pretty amazing!! It was beautiful because I didn't have to go out in it!!

The picture with the trees was taken earlier in the morning and the one of the house was taken late in the afternoon. By then the area around trees was totally white! Not sure how many inches we got, but it seemed like we had at least 2" on our walk way!! Any volunteers to shovel??

Where's Waldo

I swear we did take some pictures on Thanksgiving. Alas, they are still on Natalie's camera, and I don't believe any of them involve food. Oops. For giggles here's Dieter and Shelby instead.

I'll get some actual thanksgiving pics up soon.

There's Shelby looking for a nice place to lose some weight, and Dieter wondering what's taking Shelby so long (and why he's still on a leash).