12/14 Junk Drawer: Snow (Yay! Yippee! Skippee!) Edition

Hypothetically he would break their sleds… but I don’t think he would ever lose. Seemes a little competitive.

Bout a quarter inch here in Vancouver.

Yes and yes. And sledding. Rejoice Portland.

Car just slid down holgate right into the intersection … that was cool. Starbucks is open. So im gonna venture there first. Sledding making snow angels and probably having a gallon of chocolate milk.

Sophia

not bragging or anything, just saying

bayless devours snow, yellow or otherwise, without regard for human life.

Nate Mcmillan is probally calling all the players to let them know their is still practice and if they can not drive they should jog to the practice facility.

I think this qualifies as a blizzard.

How many Blazers know how to drive in the snow? I bet only Joel and Greg are any good at it.

Oh the weather outside is frightful,
But the fire is so delightful,
And since we’ve no place to go,
Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!

It doesn’t show signs of Pauseing,
And I’ve bought some corn for popping,
The lights are turned way down low,
Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!

When we finally kiss goodnight,
How I’ll hate going out in the storm!
But if you’ll really hold me tight,
All the way home I’ll be warm.

The fire is slowly dying,
And, my dear, we’re still good-bying,
But as long as you love me so,
Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!

well, in Salem its warmed up enough to melt off what snow we got. My folks live in the Silverton hills but they say its getting slushy although they got a good 6-8 inches. I was tempted to go fire up the 4 wheeler and roam around but decided to stay home and play this Age of Mythology map I’ve struggled to defeat. Later after a late lunch Im gonna curl up to my latest Ben Bova adventure— The Aftermath.

Bonzi doesnt like the snow much but Duffy had been out all morning and just came in soaking wet and covered in pine needles. That reminds me I better get some more wood stacked under the porch.

Dont forget to keep a flashlight handy and some candles ready just in case.

GO TRAIL BLAZERS!!!

No snow on the ground. No snow at all. I live at a slightly higher altitude on the edge of Eugene and there is no snow here. It snowed hard for about a half hour this morning, but none of it stuck and it hasn’t snowed again since. No rain either. Just really cold weather. I might go hike up Spencer Butte so I can experience the snow.

and she was about to throw a snowball at me so I turned around and ran…right into the side of my house. So now I have a big ol’ bump on the side of my head.

I’m in NEP, and let me tell you, a lot of Portlanders can’t drive in this stuff.

I’m stuck at home in 79 degree weather because the Honolulu Marathon is going on right now and it passes my apartment. I can’t go east and if I go west, the traffic coming home would take hours. I’m also half-hungover because my wife made me go to a sake, food, and wine event last night. I drank two free mojitos, five kinds of sakes, four kinds wine, ate Iron Chef Japan type food, then hung out with a bunch of gay models. Some dude from Bulgari bought me a lemon drop then we went for cigars and someone gave me a Longboard Lager. At 11:58 PM, we were sitting with Chef Masahito Ueki and I text my wife, “I gotta no more.” It’s 1:36 PM and I still haven’t showered.

Went out for a walk about 8 am when it was coming down hard. Wanted to try out my super duper cold weather gloves I bought last month. Snort. They are no better than the old knit gloves in my drawer. Walked about a half mile but turned back because the path turned into the wind and it was stinging my face. Have stayed inside most of the day only dashing out now and then to refill the bird feeders and to sweep off my front walk. It’s 3:50 and is snowing and blowing in the SW burbs.

ESPN

Just falls apart. My kids were excited to make a snow man.

For my first three years back in Portland, I worked at a school. Got zero snow days, zip.

Now, I have a non-school job, and the schools are closed (even though there’s pretty much no snow at all at my house in NE). But I bet I’ll be at work tomorrow. I want a snow day!!!

http://www.sactownroyalty.com/2008/12/14/692194/last

What can you do as a fan on a clearly losing team: http://www.sactownroyalty.com/2008/12/14/691983/23-59

        but it won’t stick. Just like the losing streak
won’t Stick with the Blazers !

Assuming Amare wants to get out of there to play for a competitive team when he becomes a free agent in either 2010 (ETO) or latest 2011, their “core” looks like this:

Dragic
Richardson (2011)/Barbosa
Tucker/Dudley
Amundson
Lopez

Bahahaha. Okay, they have cap space themselves beginning in 2010 when Shaq comes off the books, but suddenly it doesn’t look that unlikely that they could be interested in trading Nash or Amare ahead of time.

There was a time a few years ago when I still lived in the Portland area that two inches of snow would have been something. Then I moved to the Midwest. With 8 inches of snow down, and still falling, school doesn’t even get delayed out here. Unless its a blizzard, and I mean a real blizzard, not what the weather-casters call a light dusting, no one notices out here. That, and the high temperature tomorrow is +7°F. I hope my long underwear is clean.

during the day has been in the low 60's but the wind has been pretty ferocious and the sky is filled with pendulous, grey clouds that never give up their moisture. The locals say this is unusual. Today we went to Chiricahua National Monument, a truly amazing example of scenery in the US and a geological phenomenon. Not to mention it's history. Anyway, we decided not to hike because, at 6500 ft., the wind was so strong that it sucked the breath right out of your lungs. We'll go back, maybe in Oct., because the hikes will be spectacular.