A New Year

December was an exciting month......not always fun but something always happening. As the news stated, Seattle had more snow than in decades. We decided to leave Vashon Island a few days earlier than planned for Jodie's. The 18th had a "good" snow . We kept hearing about the ice and road problems in Seattle, 2 buses tried to fly off the road down 20-30 ft onto the freeway. The pictures looked like something out of a action movie. They were talking about high winds and so on. We left for Jodie's 12/20. The interstate was clear, but the main roads were bad and the small neighborhood streets almost impassable. More snow was expected that evening. It came, and kept on coming thru Christmas.
Ever try to push a shopping cart in a parking lot with 5 inches of snow. Walking was a hazard. We read alot, worked lots of jig saw puzzles, played in the snow...ate. Something about cold weather and being stuck inside makes you think of baking bread...not to mention Christmas goodies. A part of our many waits, was for the delivery of the Honey Baked Ham from my sister. It was sent 12/16/08, it arrived 6:30 pm 12/24/08. Yes it was still good.
We came back to Morningside Farm 12/26. Not sure what we would find after all the snow. We found lots of snow, and it's a good thing we have 4 wheel drive, we have a .5 mile drive down a dirt road, not to mention another mlie of nonplowed road before that. A few fences were brought down by tree branches. But all building and our 5th wheel were all ok.
12/27 we went to Point Defiance Zoo Lights. It was a fun side trip.
1/4/09 brought more snow.. We were at the Branch Presidents for dinner, none of us realized how much it had snowed, the 10 mile drive home was a bit stressful. 1 we weren't sure how to get to the main road and the gps couldn't find the satellite. We did make it home, an hour later the power was gone, along with phones and DSL. Ever try to sleep with the loud hum of a generator...then the rain. Snow starts melting and falling off the trees over the 5th wheel..
GRRRRRRRRR, SPLAT, SPLAT, SPLAT, GRRRRRRRRRR. Well I didn't. And then the rains kept coming down. We are high enough and avoided flooding, but much of Washington is under water.
Today its foggy and drizzling, we were going to Jodies. On our trip to the ferry the water pump in our truck died, along with the brakes and steering. Good thing we have AAA. We are just waiting for the estimate. We have been blessed many times......I could have been driving when this happened, we could have been on the ferry or worse yet on the freeway. We do have use of the park truck, but we don't trust it too far.
But all is well.......we haven't started growing gills yet.