November 27, 2003 I've posted a few times about my nephew's accidental gunshot wound. It's been about 2 1/2 months, and amazingly, he has healed with no major permanent damage aside from some nasty scarring. Two pictures of the wound from back in September - and two pictures from today - are posted here (Warning: these are graphic pictures of a bad wound).
Appropriately enough, today is Thanksgiving Day.
November 26, 2003 The folks who used to live across the street from us are very much into fishing. So they decided to do something about that passion, and bought a plot on a river outside of town. Here's the front of their new house:
Yeah, that's nice enough, but check out the view from their living room:
...and here's a better shot from their window. Yup, this is their back yard!
One of the best spots in the area to catch salmon and trout is right behind their house now. They can just go out back and drop a line. Awesome.
Misc November 19, 2003 Winter is here. Officially. Starting this morning. After sunrise, the temperature suddenly plummeted, and the snow started. These were mutant snowflakes. Big, wet, did I say BIG? I saw snowflakes 2 to 3 INCHES across! This was just weird!
So here's a picture of the neighborhood this morning as the snow was falling:
...And looking the other way:
...And then later in the morning when I came down from the office for a cup of coffee, I saw that our beautiful maple tree had broken under the weight of all of the heavy wet snow, trapped on the leaves that normally would have fallen by now:
Sadly, I had to pull out the chainsaw and amputate a couple of large branches from the tree. I was able to knock the wet snow off of the other branches and they sprang back up to proper position. But I'm afraid that I'll have to take this tree out before the spring comes; I detected too much old damage that I'd not seen before :(
Snow November 12, 2003 Here's a pic from our bedroom window this morning:
Winter may not be here yet (there won't be skiiing at Mt Hood for a couple of weeks yet), but the autumn is definitely here. We've turned on the heat, half the folks at work have colds or flu, and the leaves are finally changing color.
Misc November 8, 2003 Well crap! Seems I've got a bit of a cold/flu thing going. I almost never get sick, so I'm a total wuss when it hits. So I've got the layers of fleece going and many times a day I'm having my "Citrus Cocktail" -- juice of 2 oranges, a grapefruit, a lemon, and a lime:
Of course, normally I prefer my lime juice encapsulated in a margarita, and I typically only use this glass when having a pint of beer, but desperate times call for desperate measures. We'll see if I can blast this thing out before Monday.
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