Did you happen to see it last night? It was glorious~I know there are names for each full moon so checked out the Farmer's Almanac. Here's what they had to say about February's full moon; • Full Snow Moon - February Since the heaviest snow usually falls during this month, native tribes of the north and east most often called February's full Moon the Full Snow Moon. Some tribes also referred to this Moon as the Full Hunger Moon, since harsh weather conditions in their areas made hunting very difficult.It's 8am and we haven't left here yet. I'm seeing on the local news that there's snow falling north of us, so we're bound to have a slow go...as we head north. Bob is saying "I wish we would have left Monday afternoon." Grrrrrrrr, that what I suggested and he said "no." Oh well.............Until next time Linda
The rain has stopped for now, but there's standing water everywhere. People have been evacuated from their homes, some are still stranded in their homes and roads and Interstates are closed ~ it's a mess here in western Washington. I have some friends who have had water coming into their basement (their bedrooms are there) since just very early Wednesday morning. There are 3 of them living there and they have been using wet/dry shop vacs and pumps almost continuously since about 5am Wednesday to suck up the water coming in. A twenty mile stretch of Interstate 5 is still closed south of here, near Chehalis (same thing happened there last year) and they are saying in some places there is 10 feet of water over the highway. This is the only route between the Seattle are and Portland. They are saying there are hundreds of semi trucks lined up, waiting to get thru. A one day delay creates a loss of approximately 4 million dollars in revenue when that many trucks can't get thru. All the mountain passes are still closed too, so there's more delays on the east-west route here in our state. I am so blessed to live where I live. Right here in my little spot~things are ok. I had some puddles in the driveway and on the road out in front of me but nothing major. Even a couple leaks from the gutters are gone because Bob did some caulking last summer and fixed them. Since Bob is leaving again Saturday (if I-5 opens up that is) he brought another load of wood in from his place and it's piled out in the wood corral out on my carport. He had used some timbers to support the carport when the snow was so heavy. He since has removed them but they are also piled out there, so that if it snows again, I can have a couple of the neighbor guys and/or my son put them up to keep the carport from caving in. Meanwhile we had a few sun breaks today~very welcome sun breaks I might add and then temperature has dropped significantly. Last night late it was 52* and now just after 12 noon it's only 46* out there. If you're interested in seeing some more coverage on our flooding check out KOMO TV's web site; http://www.komonews.com/ Stay warm & dry.....Linda
All the Christmas wrapping paper, ribbons & bows that is. Bob finally finished his shopping this afternoon and wrapped what need to be wrapped. He got his teen age grand kids Target gift cards but he had stuff (toys) that needed wrapping for the 18 month old and the 4-1/2 year old. But now it's done & I've carried everything out to the shed and put it away. I use my ironing board for wrapping so it's been sitting out all this time too. It's been put away also. My new neighbors made a snowman the other day. It's really cute and it's sitting out by their mailbox~I'm sure the mailman gets a kick out of it. Well, Bob took this picture of it today, I printed it out and he got a frame at the dollar store and we've put the picture in the frame and wrapped it up. I'm going to take them some fudge and a loaf of cranberry bread tomorrow and will give them the picture at the same time. This way the kids will have a photo record of their first snowman at their new house. And I've had a great picture to put in my blog. We're still undecided about our trip to Enumclaw on Wednesday. They are saying we could get several inches of snow tonight & tomorrow so will play it by ear. Lisa commented that staying in the camper sounded cold....will Lisa it's ok. There's a nice wall furnace in there that will drive you right out of the thing if it's turned up too high. We've stayed at several ski resorts during ski season and we've been very comfortable in there. But thanks for being concerned. Well that's all for tonight. I'm going to make some popcorn and get out a movie, since there doesn't seem to be much on TV tonight. Until next time,
The bird bath is closed
Looking out the front window down the street.
My waterbed garden full of snow.
The Douglas Fir tree limbs heavy with wet snow. I can normally walk under the lower branches of this tree.
My 'stand-by' washing machine and Pink(ie) and Floyd aren't used to the snow. 
