Sherry | December 31, 2008
On my way to work this morning I snapped one final snow picture. Thankfully we’ve had some warm (enough) days here in our temperate valley that returned everything to its normal lovely shade of winter green. So it seemed only right to post one final snow picture on this final day of the year. Are [...]
Sherry | December 27, 2008
A while ago I issued a warning that I love series pictures and would probably be posting them from time to time. I hope that warning’s still in effect because I have a couple of fun (at least I think they’re fun) pictures series for you. The first one goes back a few years, six [...]
Sherry | December 26, 2008
Christmas begins on Christmas Eve, for me anyway. We were so happy that our weird weather didn’t cause our church to cancel its traditional Christmas Eve candlelight services. An “angel” volunteered to plow our parking lot, a necessity, obviously. I watched him (Tim Moreland) out of my office window. Took four+ hours, but he finished just in [...]
Sherry | December 23, 2008
Just to prove I can write a post without referring to the piles of white frozen rain collecting in our yard, I took a picture of the two people who have “moved in” with us to celebrate Christmas. We continue to adjust our plans to accommodate the fact that we can’t leave town. Pete brought [...]
Sherry | December 22, 2008
They say it’s been forty years since our little valley has had this much snow. We woke up to several more inches and had to grab our cameras to shoot yet another set of pictures. So if you’re sick of snow pictures, I encourage you to move to the next blog on your reader. But [...]
Sherry | December 21, 2008
You pay the price when I have nothing but time on my hands. Our morning services and evening concert were rightfully cancelled, which opened all manner of potential for accomplishment around here. But no, I figure it’s a day of rest, and rest I will! So I sat in my favorite spot, checking Facebook updates [...]
Sherry | December 20, 2008
Everybody, and I mean everybody, around these parts is talking about our weather. This much snowfall in a day’s time is so rare I couldn’t not post some pictures, if only for history’s sake, as in “Remember when schools were closed an entire week before the real blizzard hit?” Here’s the picture I posted a [...]
Sherry | December 19, 2008
You all know the KISS principle: Keep It Simple, Stupid. We’re taking the KISS approach to Christmas decorating this year. Since we have no grandkids coming, neither of us has even brought up the idea of a tree. Two years ago I bought a faux tree with lights at Target’s after-Christmas 75% off sale and [...]
Sherry | December 14, 2008
We had a good dose of snow in Colorado a few weeks ago, but today’s snow belongs to us. I’m not a snow lover—all the inconvenience, you know—but I sure enjoy looking at it from the inside. Mauri likes to remember how snow entered into the decision for me to move to Oregon, rather than [...]
Sherry | December 10, 2008
Every year since 1969 I’ve sent out a Christmas letter. One of this tradition’s advantages turned out to be staying connected to the Macys. Of course I couldn’t have known where that connection would eventually lead. But I faithfully put down our family news on paper. Sometimes I refer to the collection to remember where [...]