Annika got her first shiner this week. It happened in her karate class. I guess when you have a half-dozen toddlers wielding nunchuks, something is bound to happen. You should see the other kid.
Category: Disasters
In our last episode, the Portland metropolitan area was shut down for a day when several inches of fluffy snow showed up. That proved to be just a test run for the arrival of the real snow. The Sunday before Christmas, over six inches of fresh snow fell from the sky. By Sunday night, our street looked like this (click on the photo):
Given Portland’s temperate climate, the local weather experts are surprisingly fond of predicting snow, ice, freezing rain, or a combination of the three. Usually, nothing that exciting happens, except maybe a run on snow shovels at the hardware store. (Hmm — is that why The Home Depot sponsors the weather page in the local newspaper?)