Living in the Pacific Northwest, the rest of the story

So a few days ago I posted some pics & vids of the beautiful scenery around here. I hope I did not give the impression that the weather was as mild as it appeared in those pics. The fact is that for Oregon, it was fairly cold. CS & GS will have a different perspective as to what cold is. But for this area, having a high of 28 and a low at night of 12 and winds of 10, 20, 30 makes it feel fairly cold for us.

Well, as of yesterday morning, we got the other part of living in the Pacific Northwest. Note, we still love living here. But, sometimes I just kind of shake my head and wonder what in the world???

This first vid shows the view from our front door. It started snowing about 10a.m. yesterday (Saturday) and finally stopped this morning (Sunday) about 10a.m.! Now perhaps you know that I've lived where we had lots of snow. And I've seen snow much deeper than this. But I don't recall seeing the snow fall non-stop for 24 hours. Sometimes it came down light but steady. But most of the time the snow fell fairly heavy and steady and moderately big flakes--albeit the snow itself was comparatively dry. If you live(d) in snow country you know what I mean.

These next 2 pics (as well as the 2 vids) were all taken about 6:30 or 7a.m. That explains the wierd color effects--that plus the fact that all our surroundings are snow-covered or walls. Anyway, these 2 pics are just a couple stills out the front door, showing the bushes right by our building, just to the right of the door.

And I think this 2nd vid is self-explanatory (if you have the sound on which also would have been helpful on the first vid).

Well, Pastor emailed us last night to say we probably would cancel services this morning. At that point in time, he measured 13 inches snow in his back yard. And we have a number of people who live "up the mountain" so we know they got exponentially more than down here in the "valley." So we were not surprised to get the email this morning confirming that plan. So I set the dvr to record some televised services. And we watched Charles Stanley already this morning and plan to watch maybe 1 or 2 more as the day progresses.

Check back later today... Our (my???) plan is to go out in the snow this afternoon so I can teach bw how to make snow angels!!!

Well I think that's all for now. Sooooooo

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