The Cave

A lovely view of the west hills from the balcony... no really, they're there. Its been a lovely day of rain and mist today keeping the temperatures nice and mild despite the date on the calendar. We were out and about this weekend and I over heard more than one person complaining about all the rain this summer, baah... this is perfect weather in my not so humble opinion :) A few breaks of sun today and left us with this lovely high temperature...

Here's the temperature gauge about 4pm, pay no attention to the time on the thing I was too lazy to reset the time last time I changed the batteries. The outdoor temp is that lovely 60 degrees at the bottom, if it was 60 degrees indoors we'd be having some issues here.

at 7:16 PM | 0 comments  
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So we thought we'd go somewhere different, we wanted to go to the coast but we wanted to see something new. This time we headed futher south and passed numerous little parking areas that were pretending to be your average trail head...
We decided to stop at one when we saw a sign saying beach access, that could be cool. We parked and started down a complete maze of a trail, signs to the beach every direction.. apparently there was several access points some time ago but washout has closed all but one. We finally get to the end of the trail, the ocean appearing through the trees and we're nearly run over by a few people with surf boards and were greeted by this

A beautiful beach, surrounded by rock complete with a few small streams running to the ocean from somewhere in the mountains and a waterfall.

Me being me, had to walk across the beach to the water fall and what we found was even better than the water... tidal pools full of sea critters!

Sooo wanted to stay longer and see what else there was to see but the tide was coming in so we were pushing getting trapped if we headed any futher out on the rocks. Definately a trip for another day...

at 7:31 PM | 0 comments  
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Well... the flowering trees *were* lovely, until they decided to litter all over the ground and make it look like snow. What's up with that anyway, I didn't order this mess. Atleast I don't have to clean it up but it was no end of humor watching the dogs get flower petals stuck on their noses as they sniffed in search of a dropped crumb of food.

Now its lovely and all, but it looks like snow *shudder* Nothing like a whole street lined with these trees in white and pink to announce spring has arrived

Even Lizzie managed to enjoy herself by trying to help Jay eat his lunch, if given the chance this little shark will happily eat the food and your hand not realizing that my hand isn't really as tasty as what I'm holding.

Wing and nut did their best impression of a nascar race, crashing and trying to shove each other to get ahead.. wow, did I really just go there with the nascar thing? Well there went a perfectly pointless post, right down the drain. :)

at 7:27 PM | 0 comments  
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ok... may as well start laughing now, I'm excited about a bag of potatoes. I grew up in Michigan and even there I always got Idaho potatoes, the Michigan grown ones were good but they just weren't as good. When we moved to Oregon I figured I would have to give up some of my favorites available in Michigan, many were locally made but I didn't expect one of them to be potatoes... after all Idaho is right next door. Well I got schooled on that when we got here, we're all proud of all our locally grown food and the only potatoes from anywhere that wasn't Oregon were in the freezer case and its gone on like this for over a year. When I stumbled on to them this weekend I was excited and I'm sure everyone else in the store thought I was insane.. I was geeked to find mutant Idaho potatoes.... I mean.. This potato is a meal for 2 all on its own!

I think Jay thought I was crazy too until I made some of these for dinner on Sunday... they were just as yummy as I remembered.. Jay said they reminded him of the potatoes at a good steak house.. too bad we weren't having steak for dinner Sunday.

at 7:38 AM | 0 comments  
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Guitar Hero... exactly who was the brain child of this game anyway? I've resisted trying it for several years, never understanding the point of it; I tried Dance Dance revolution and couldn't imagine this one to be much better. Along come our friends telling us how we MUST try this game, its fun, etc. Jay and I continued to scoff at it refusing to be suckered into trying what appeared to be a pointless game.

Just after the holidays we were invited over by some friends who love this game and we finally gave in and tried it, that was a bad idea. I've spent the past month stopping at the display every time I was in Best Buy to play a song and we finally gave in this weekend and actually purchased the game. This was Saturday morning... we got home, hooked it up to "try" it out and the next thing I knew it was nearly time for dinner *grumble* I wonder if needing my fix of guitar hero is an acceptable excuse for calling in sick to work... probably not :)

at 7:48 AM | 0 comments  
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Then we fast forward to later that afternoon, this apartment was not designed for weather like this... I've put up heavy curtains to keep the cold back but that is creating a whole different problem

ICE! Nothing like pulling the curtains back to see how the weather is and seeing this on the bottom edge of your sliding glass door, ACK!

Well, ok this picture sucks but its the best I could get at this hour. I called work late last night to find out we're closed because the roads are so bad. All that haze in the photo is snow, you can see how much is sitting on the branch on the right of the photo. Yuck The worst storm they've seen in 40 years, figures we're here to "enjoy" it. Trixie if you're reading this I hope you're keeping warm out there too

at 6:28 AM | 0 comments  
Labels: Life