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I think we got that tough sledding designation going on here. It’s knee deep out there and has the consistency of wet concrete. It is amazing that I can reach you where you are but hardly get a hundred feet outside with this stuff. We also sustained some damage overnight to trees and outdoor gear. On the bright side maybe the worst is over but a long way from normal. The next phase is flooding.
But we are warm inside. Got some food to cook today and taxes
to work on. So, we are making progress where we can. And blogging with you of course. Yesterday the wifi was on and off but maybe it will hold here now for us.
I’m not walking the trail this afternoon and it will probably be closed for a while with the snow and debris. So, stay home and stay in touch. And archery classes are canceled also.
Well, I wish that I could be more exciting or poetic or something. Just a little worn out at the moment. Time to text the neighbors and see how things are going there.
February loves, Felipé.
Oooof! I remember driving back home to Vashon from (working in) Mexico during the storm of 07: Power off everywhere, trees down everywhere, people bunking with friends and woodstove-only cooking. But, 11 years later the exciting adventure part isn’t quite as exciting, huh?
Luckily, in Caminohead-land, there is no expectation of everyday grand performances, heart-stopping poetry, earth shakin insights or best-tapas-party-ever is there? The reports of “just doin life,” as Joanna says, is delightful in itself. Trackin the everyday, it seems to me, is like watching water– rivers or tides or ocean swells. Though it looks the same often, even mundane from afar with only casual observation, being close to it, learning to know any particular stretch of beach or river bank or ocean current, its calmer times, stormier times, its everyday movements and glances of light and shadows – that holds a deep sense of the sacred we wade through every day. The NWBC has great appreciation for the blog when it brings that kind of everyday sacred to the fore. Nobody ever said they spent too much time watching the tide go in and out, appreciating the everyday blessing of “just doin life,” I’m certain. Exciting, dreadful or simple same-old same-old – it’s all kinda perfect, isn’t it? Hang in there, my friend. Just keep walkin.
Steve-O ~ This storm is changing the landscape. Not the geological landscape but everything growing or built on it. People will notice evidence of it for years to come. And we are living through it and doing our best. Yea, just doing life, you got it. Thanks for your thoughts, Felipé.
Love the Huntmobile doin its job!
Steve-O ~ quarter of a million miles you are talking about. Did you find a new rig? Felipé.
Dear neighbor,
I thought to send a weather report from south-SOUTH-east-of-Vashon (aka Argentina):
-Buenos Aires woke up yesterday with 12*C ~53*F after experiencing 39*C ~102.5*F the day before. We are now free of bacterias, as that is the definition of “pasteurization”, right? High temperatures followed by low temperatures, and now high again 24*C~75*F.
-The North of the country, neighboring with Chile, got SNOW!!! By the 26 of January, there were 42*C~108*F.
-In the South of the country, where the Perito Moreno glaciar is, people were enjoying a dive in the water… the layer of ice was melted… it was 38,5*C ~100*F (the highest temperature ever recorded was 35*C)
I can only say that the 4-seasons lemon tree that I have seen always with yellow lemons since I live where I live, now has green lemons… the whole neighborhood is commenting on that fact… Nature is at lost…
I didn’t have much time to reflect on this whole phenomenon, but I would like to believe that this craziness is just trying to remind me that “what seems most impossible may happen too”… I know it is “kinda-fairy-taily”, but who knows…!
Melted-Frozen-At room temperature Loves,
Cris
Cris SABC ~ awesome report from the front lines of sorta-kinda-fairytale land. I like your takeaway about ”may happen too”. That’s us, always on the lookout for the silver lining. Thank you for helping with my blogpost for the day with that. It is way early in the morn here and I am humming along on my steroids from treatment yesterday. Time to write. Miss you. Hope things are working out with your care for Auntie. I pray for creative solutions to arrive. Felipé.x