frozen over
We had us a bit of weather here the other weekend, and though inclement weather had nothing to do with my two month hiatus from blogging, it seemed best to just jump back into writing a post without my usual lengthy apology, or talking about my demanding editor. I’ve been better at pictures than writing lately, anyway.
But anyway, it snowed! I think I can only remember one time in my almost fourteen years (!!) now in Oregon where we saw snow before Thanksgiving in this stretch of the Willamette Valley, and then it was only flurries that lasted an hour or so. Whatever cold weather system it was that brought the snow in this time also brought a deep freeze with it, where the temperature never got out of the low twenties (that’s around -5 in Canadian Fahrenheits) for the better part of a week. The little pond or reservoir or whatever it’s supposed to be behind our apartment complex froze almost completely over. I realize that sort of thing is fairly routine to those of you born and raised and still living in the colder climes of this world, but I grew up in sunny San Diego and have spent the bulk of my adult life in the temperate rainforest west of the Cascades, so I’ve never personally witnessed frozen over bodies of water that were larger than rain puddles.
Anyway, things warmed up over Thanksgiving, to the low forties that we’re used to this time of year. The snow was fun and the icicles always a bit of a novelty, but I’m not sorry to see it go already. And anyway, while it lasted, it served as a perfectly good excuse for us to have a wood fire or three, which then led to Sarah having the great idea that we ought to make s’mores.
Please note that if you don’t actually have any wire hangers in your house, we discovered that wooden skewers can make a perfectly good stand-in.
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