Weekend Recap of Snowmageddon ‘14

Thursday

There was the threat of snow for the late afternoon, roughly around 4pm, so we all knew it was coming. Well…about 11am it was starting to hit WAY sooner than they anticipated. It started out just flurries for the longest time, not too big of flakes. So about 1pm I finally look out my window to see the flakes are still a constantly flurry, but I see that there is a good inch and a half on the ground already…WHAT?! What got me excited about this snow was I could tell it was dry powdery Eastern/Central Oregon type of snow! Snow you’d find on the mountain, not usual western Oregon wet snow. It was reminding me of the winters in La Grande and the memories. So I made the choice to finish up work and leave about 3pm was my goal, well at 2:30pm, it was worse so I left then and BOY was I glad that I did. The roads weren’t packed with people yet but it was already dicey out! I made it home in about 15 minutes, which was great considering I was expecting at least 20-30 minutes. I spent the rest of the day watching it come down and before I knew it about 7pm, there was about 4 inches on the ground, it was crazy beautiful!

Lucy on her 'perch' watching the kids play! She sat here for hours.

Friday

The gym was closed due to the school districts being closed and OHSU was on inclement weather policy, which means that if you have no direct animal or patient care, to not come in and leave your residence. I only live 2 miles from the Primate Center, but there wasn’t much for me to do, so I kept my email on and watched TV, movies, took Lucy out for a few walks since she oddly loves the snow! Watched the kids play in the snow and build snowmen and make hills to sled in, walked to get the mail and also walked up to get coffee with my friend Katie who lives in the complex as well. Came home and watched Dallas Buyers Club which was Phenomenal!!!! MM and Leto both deserve their Oscars that they are nominated for, it was done brilliantly. I got some awesome photos of the girls having fun in Scappoose where they got over a foot of snow. Lee came over and we had some drinks and watched the Blazers lose in OT which should have never happened. I went to bed early as I was up early in case I had to get into work.

My beautiful nieces having fun in the snow in Scappoose

Saturday

By this time I was getting very antsy and wanted to get out of the apartment, to go anywhere! It was too the point where i could not watch one more second of TV or even look at the thing! I did some laundry, ran the dishwasher, and cleaned up a little bit. Went on a walk with Lu again and she loved every minute of it. I am in the middle of watching Lost for the first time(I know, I know) and I was getting a little bored with it, became dull to me for about 3-4 episodes in Season 3. Luckily about 4pm my brother texts me that they have an extra ticket to the PBR, so of course I’m in because I wanted to go in the first place. I had 2 hours to get ready before they’d be there to pick me up, of course I had a little more than 2 hours in reality because they are always a smidge late ;-) PBR was a lot more fun this year than last year, it was WAY more entertaining. The bulls were very aggressive and some threw some major tantrums throughout the night. There was one injury that was pretty bad and he was knocked out, sadly I cannot find any information on how he’s doing. There were a few FANTASTIC rides during the night as well, 3 in the 90 point range! It was always fun with the group that we go with and I cannot wait until next year. The roads weren’t the best and the freezing rain was coming down for sure, but my brother kept it at a steady 30-35mph and we were fine. If there is anyone I trust to drive me in any crazy weather it’s a PGE line crew employee, they have driven in the worst of the worst in those big ass line trucks! Kyle got called to work as he was dropping me off and worked a whopping 29 hours. Love those linemen!

 Pretty Awesome!

Love those cowboy butts ;-)

Support those lineman!

Sunday

Cabin fever was hitting MAJOR! After I woke up and took Lucy out and let her play a little, I watched a bit more Lost and then decided that I’m walking to Safeway to get out of the place and to get some groceries that I was in need of. Of course I bought way too much and that was a LONG walk back with an extra 20lbs on me, I took my athletic bag but still…I was tired! But I got my workout in for not doing much for 4 days. Sunday, I also woke up feeling a cold coming on, UGH! I made sure I picked up some throat coat tea and honey at the store when I went. I stayed in the rest of the day, only letting Lucy out to potty and cuddled on the couch! I wasn’t feeling too good the rest of the day and I wanted to beat this cold, I ended up crawling into bed at 7:15pm. It was a crazy 4 days of weather, fun and cabin fever. But I was very happy to go back to work and resume a regular schedule. The snow is going to be around for a while as the thawing is taking it’s time. In total I had 7 inches at my apartment with about an inch of ice on top of it Saturday to Sunday after the freezing rain!

 My snow dog :)