Sunday, February 24th, 2019…... We
had nothing on our plate for today. It rained a ton last night! We have a river
running through our yard! Rylee’s drag strip is now about 4 feet wide!
I took off to go get
coffee/tea/breakfast and saw Oak Creek on the rise. It was just touching the
road (S. Main St.) when I left. When I got back ½ hour later, it was all the
way across the road! I went back a bit later
and took this pic.
They had just come out and put up
the warning sign. Most of the cars were turning around (we did) but some were
going through. This creek runs behind
our neighbor’s houses across the street and we noticed that Jeremy and
Sabrina’s back yard now looks like a lake!
We had no plans to go out again, but if we did, there is another way to
get to town, bypassing S. Main St. Earlier,
Jade, at Starbucks, told me that she and her boyfriend have both lived here all
of their lives and they’ve never seen it like this! Weather is coming in and on our 6 o’clock
news, they showed a huge front coming in the next 24 hours just to the south of
us. Eugene is expected to see 8-12” of snow. 3-6” are predicted in Lebanon so
we’ll have to see how this goes…
Like I said, we just hung around the
house and watched tv throughout the day and evening.
Monday, February 25th, 2019…… The snow did come in last night. We woke up to
everything white!
It
continued to snow until 11:15am. I went out with a ruler and measured the
driveway out in the open where it was smooth. It was right at 4”. The yard
looked like it was over 6” but it really wasn’t. It just settled into the grass
a bit. But either way, we didn’t go anywhere this morning. Lydia had a 12:45pm appointment today at the
doctor’s office in Corvallis (about 20 miles). Neither of us wanted to go out
driving in the snow, so she rescheduled. I took Rylee out a few times to let
her run a bit. She made a few laps and went through her water drag strip a few
times. Each time we’d have to towel her down.
Tip:
Don’t eat yellow snow…..
About the
only productive thing I did today was getting around to spackling all of the
holes left in the bathroom wall after installing the new towel bars last week.
Lucky for me, the walls are about the color of the spackle so I don’t have to
paint the room at this time. We hope to do more painting - of that and other
rooms come summer. The weather has
settled down a bit. The large front came through and has now moved out. It has stopped snowing and the forecast looks
clear for the next couple of days. But it’s still pretty chilly out so we’ll
see how long it takes for this batch of snow to melt away.
Tuesday, February 26th, 2019…... No change on the weather. I got
up and going and took Rylee out for our walk up the street through the snow. Kirk had texted and asked if we still had
snow. He wanted to come over and do some yard work. Yeah right! He lives in
Corvallis and said they had about an inch of snow there but it melted pretty
quickly. I told him we have had no melting at all as of this morning. The day
was cloudy and still too cold for that. When we got back from our walk, I
walked out to inspect the yard. I noticed yesterday that the cage around our
blueberry bushes was down. I wanted a closer look this morning. It is really
down! Most of the uprights have collapsed due to snow accumulation on the
netting over the top. Just too much weight and the whole thing came down. I
have to wait until the snow melts before I can get to the netting to remove it
and see what needs to be done. At least one of the bushes is bent over so we’ll
see the total damage soon…
I
ventured out on the snowy road to go get breakfast. Now remember that, up until
mid-2017, we had lived all of our lives in sunny SoCal, so snow is something
you had to drive to. We didn’t go up to Big Bear all that often so driving in it
is something we don’t have a lot of experience in. But after I got on our
street, which had tire paths from all of the neighbors/mail truck/newspaper vehicle,
all I had to do was follow them and it was easy once I hit S. Main. I did
actually see our first snowplow, although it was coming out of the McDonald's parking lot.
When I
finished breakfast, I went out to the rv garage and checked things out. I
started and ran the coach for a few minutes. I checked on the fridge and then
turned on the tv and found I had some shows taped out there that I hadn’t taped
in the house. Guess I will plan on spending some time out there soon to catch
up on those. The rest of the day was spent doing chores in the house. Lydia did
some laundry and I cleaned up my room (aka Rylee’s toy room!) and dusted it. It started snowing later in the afternoon. Later, we fixed tacos for dinner and relaxed and watched tv after our boring, oops,
busy day! When we went to bed I checked and it was still snowing. With the snow already on the ground, we'll see what levels we will have tomorrow.
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