Leaving For China

Well I am off again to the Far East. I will post as often as I can and keep you all up to date on my journey. I will be back March 11th, and sleep until March 14th, so until then watch the blog for news.

Crazy Basketball Story!

Superbowl Faces!

February 5th, 2006 was the day of Superbowl, and some people were more excited than others! I submit the photos of those who agreed to the question... "Give me your Game Face!" Why the delay in posting this collage of photos? Hey, it takes time to do this kind of stuff!

The Sisters

Cold and clear! This shot taken on a day when it was pouring down rain at home. Leaving this and heading back over the mountains into the rain was not easy.

Back From Central Oregon

We are back from our time off in Central Oregon. There was snow on the ground when we arrived a week ago, but all had melted by the time we headed back to Portland. Very cold, -3 on the first night! Much wood was cast into the fireplace during this vacation I can assure you! This panoramic was shot from the highway between Redmond, Oregon and Black Butte Ranch.

Sunriver Adventure

We arrived last night at 9:00pm with the Jeep reporting an outside temperature of 1 degree! After a long day we went straight to bed. All was well until about 4:00am when I noticed that there was no water!

I spent the morning making phone calls and long story short, we are now repacking the Jeep and heading to Black Butte.

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Country Living Adventure #256

"Honey, the Jeep alarm is going off." So started yet another Country Living Adventure. As I made my way across the house to disable the jeep alarm, I noticed that none of the light switches were producing any light. After shutting off the alarm I ventured out with a flashlight and immediately saw the powerline draped over the rig.

I called the proper authorities and made my way down the drive to the expected and almost routine now... Downed tree. Only 5 days earlier Deb and I had walked to this very tree and speculated that it would be the next to fall. The tree took out all of the electrical lines during it's decent and knocked out power to 4 houses.

Unhappy Jeep!

As you can see the cable landed just perfectly on top of the Jeep!

I Assume...

This is bad?

Yup, Another Downed Tree!

The first guys showed up pretty quickly and started clearing off the fallen tree. I was warned many times to not touch the wires, which made it hard because I really wanted to touch them so badly!

Large Response

After the clean up crew was done, many trucks arrived for the electrical work. (Three more trucks are not in the photo.) Note: Real men huddled together planning their attack and discussing the strange man with a camera in the distance! I heard one of them say, "Did anyone tell that guy not to touch the wires?"

Hooking Up The Lines

It took quite awhile for all of the pieces to come together so the actual hook-up could begin. Power was restored around 9:30am. Yea!

Whale Of A Problem!

Animusic

Weekend Deer Sighting

Now we have 4 deer that hang out around the house! They are not spooked by the ATV and I can get quite close.