Greg's Music And Geek Blog

Thu, 01 Mar 2007

The band is playing again!

We’ll be playing at a dinner benifit on Saturday. It will be held at the First Congregational Church on Auburn Ravine Road in Overmiller Hall.

We’ll be on at 6:00 to play some more gypsy jazz, swing, and Dawg music.

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And then the snow really showed up …

OK, enoughof those wimpy snow pictures. Tuesday night the real storm hit us and we got some real snow.

Remember, the official town motto for Colfax is “Above the fog, below the snow”. Well yesterday, the snow level came down below 1000 feet and we’re up at 2200.

Here’s the back yard

More view from the back yard

The front garden

Part of the property at the side of the house

Thunder thinks this is great. He’s right at home in his element.

Here’s our little house in the hills.

This is the rest of the downhill side of the property. That’s our neighbor’s house.

The roads were pretty bad last night and they were turning cars around on highway 80 at Applegate last night. That’s about 5 miles downhill form us. So we had to take back roads to get home. Luckily, I was at the theater teaching and I stayed there while a student was waiting for his mom to pick him up. She was coming from Meadow Vista which is just down the hill from us and she told me which roads were plowed.

The only problem I had was getting up our driveway. It took me about 7 tries to get up it last night. Then Merja got home and her car slid down the driveway and got a little bit sideways. We got her turned around and then shoveled some more snow and she got right up on her 2nd try.

This is this morning after a lot of the snow had melted. Last night it was 3 to 4 inches deep and icy.

So that’s our little house in the snow. I’m sure it will all melt away in a few days. But it sure looks pretty right now. But remember, just 30 or so mile up the hill is Donner pass. When I was driving home I was listening to the radio to hear what roads were closed and highway 80 was closed from Applegate (just down the hill form us) all the way to the Nevada border. So we got it pretty lightly.

Now, last year when we got snow it was the first snow in 5 years. Now it seems that it snows every February. Oh well, that’s just one of the cool things about living in the mountains.

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