Tonight should be game night but I preemptively called things off  yesterday after seeing the state of the roads. I'd been planning to go to an event on Capitol Hill to benefit LGBT youth with some friends but the roads were in no shape for travel so we bailed and experience has taught me that with cold weather predicted to continue we'd still be ( Read more... )

I'm having a hard time believing that it's summer. According to the calendar it's the first day of summer, the solstice. In Seattle that means [consults charts] the sun rose at 5:11am and will set at 9:11 pm. In a land where the winter days are short, dark, and rainy the longest day of the year is something to look forward to. I always feel just a ( Read more... )

Well, the sensible advice of my friends (and my husband) has sealed it ( Read more... )

Gah.

I didn't pick Kate up yesterday because Mark was concerned about the snowy-icy weather where he's at. We're scheduled to exchange tonight up at the usual spot, which is in Skagit county just across the Skagit river... which is currently under flood warning. (It's predicted to peak tomorrow night.) There is also a wind advisory and a ( Read more... )

I did a pretty good job of keeping the house cool yesterday during the first day of our predicted heat advisory (temps are 20-25 degrees above normal). I opened all the windows early in the morning, turned on all the house fans, got a nice breeze coming through, then lowered the shades in the afternoon to keep the sun out. It was downright pleasant ( Read more... )

Flood warnings in every county in Western Washington. Seattle has had six-inches of rain since Friday and other places around the area have had as much as ten! It's been pouring rain all day and low-lying areas are flooding, which makes me grateful for once that our house is on top of a hill. We don't have to worry about mudslides, rivers spilling ( Read more... )

My friend in Houston is preparing to take her three kids and seek refuge with her sister in Dallas. I can't help thinking of all those displaced victims of Katrina, still trying to get their feet under them, while another hurricane looms over their temporary homes ( Read more... )