We are delighted to have such a beautiful White Christmas. Our tree lined driveway is lovely to behold, but we are walking up and down until the snow melts. Oh, how I wish we had four wheel drive!
The copper downspout on our roof in the image of a flying goose is outlined in ice.
The infrequent snow in our area is beautiful and appreciated until the ice storms hit and we lost power. Then we wish we had not wished for a White Christmas!
Our resident herd: buck, doe and yearling buck taking time for lunch at the bird feeder.We had a beautiful white christmas, unusual for this part of Oregon. Record snowfall for the Portland area, and of course, since this area is not equipped to handle this much snow we also had major power outages across the Willamette Valley. In our little town of Dallas, about 17,000 we had 5600 homes without power. We have natural gas so we had the gas fireplace for warmth and the cooktop for lots of warm meals. Candles and oil lamps provided night time light for games and reading. But after four days without power we were so thankful Christmas Eve afternoon when the power came back on and we had nice long hot showers. Our thanks and appreciation goes out to the many workers at the Pacific Power Company for all their hard work restoring out power!
We don't know how our boat is fairing up in Hood River Marina. The Columbia Gorge highway, Interstate 84, has been closed for much of the time, and the rest of the time either deep snow or freezing rain is keeping us home. We asked a boat neighbor to check on the boat and remove snow if possible. Since we have not heard we are assuming all is well. At leasts until we get up there to check ourselves. Not so with our boating friends Rob and Becky. Their boat the "Maxine" (seen in pictures of our trip back up to Hood River) (previous posting) was almost sunk when the covered marina in Scappose, Oregon collapsed due to the weight of the snow. Luckily for Rob and Becky their boat was one of three able to be removed from the collapsed docks. They are now waiting repairs to their damaged boat.
