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Wondering if my family is coming to Portland for weekend

Glenn — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 04:51:46 +0000

I’m down in Portland, OR for a week. I’m attending 2 woodworking classes (see my woodwoorking blog, This Week in Wood for more details).

Before I left, Kathy and I had a tentative plan that the family would come down for the weekend. We’ve never really come to Portland before and we figured it was a good opportunity to explore and play. Unfortunately, the weather decided to not cooperate. When talking about the Pacific Northwest, when some says the weather isn’t cooperating, you would usually think about a big rain. That’s not the case in this instance. The weather has decided to go to 100+ degrees for the past 4 days and will likely be in the high 90′s on Saturday (when the family would come).

Now, even the boys aren’t excited about coming to visit with the weather being what it is. I suspect that they won’t as one of the key things Kathy thought would be fun was an outdoor activity (not so fun in high 90′s).

It’s a good thing I have movies and a few things I can do on Saturday since it’s a gap day between my 2 woodworking classes.

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Wondering if my family is coming to Portland for weekend

First 90 degree day

Glenn — Wed, 30 May 2007 22:30:13 +0000

People who’ve grown up in the Pacific Northwest act like when it gets above 78 degrees that they will melt so when it gets to 90 degrees you can imagine what they feel like. I certainly feel sorry for them.

But as someone who grew up in Southern California, my experience with temperature is much different. I really enjoy 80′s and even the occasional 90 degree day. I’m sure I’d even complain if we had weeks of 90′s because I’ve just gotten to acclimated but I still enjoy the warm weather and just soak it in.

I got the little wading pool out and the slip and slide out for the boys so there was some good spring time water play. Fun was had by all.

Little League Opening Day – Cancelled!

Glenn — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 15:53:16 +0000

Saturday was opening day.

When you picture opening day for a baseball season, you picture a bright sunny day with people coming to cheer their teams on. For Little League, you picture the same thing but instead of just a team to cheer on, they come to cheer on the children. America has much of it’s recent history and mythos built around baseball so it goes to many of our spiritual core.

We signed Xander and Mitchell up for Little League this year and are looking forward to the whole experience. The practices have been fun. The boys have been enjoying it and getting better at the game. Sometimes, they do the kid thing and get all upset about it because it interrupts something they were doing or they are a little lazy but as I said, they are enjoying it.

Saturday was the big day. Both Xander and Mitchell’s first games of the season – Opening Day. Xander was going to miss his game though because of some school testing (another post maybe later!).

But we got the email. The basic measurement for canceling games is that if you can fish in the field then you cancel the game. Well, given the pictures they sent, you could not only fish, you could probably go scuba diving in the infield. It had been raining for better than 24 hours and quite heavy. The games would not have been fun.

Sad to have opening day cancelled but good that Xander didn’t have to miss the first game of the season!

Wind Storm, Power Outage – The Follow Up

Glenn — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 04:55:09 +0000

After a big discussion, Kathy and I have decided to look into getting a generator.? Our house was without power for 3 1/2 days (as compared to 4 1/2 in the last big storm).? The temp in the house got down to 40 degrees F – yes! that was the inside temp.

After some calls and a bit of research, I found that I need to find out from the gas company how much extra capacity on my gas meeter I have so that we can determine the possible size of generator we can have.

Unfortunately, the power folks have been slow to get their call centers back up after the wind storm so I haven’t been able to get that information.? I hope to get it next week and then we can make some decisions.

Day 3 of Power Out – It’s over!

Glenn — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 23:53:21 +0000

We woke up this morning to a very cold house.? When we were finally able to check the temperature we found it was 42 degrees F.? Wow, that is cold for the inside of a house!

That was enough for Kathy so she decided that we were moving operations over to her folks house till power came on at our house.? It took about an hour to pack up and get the house closed up.? We also left our number with a couple of neighbors so they could call us when the power came back on.? We got to Kathy’s folks house and unloaded the car and I unpacked my computer and was pirating an internet signal when we got the call…

…power was back on!? Isn’t that how it always goes?!?!

Well, I got back to the house and turned it back on (we turned the master off so that any power surges wouldn’t blow anything when the power came back on).? I made sure the furnace came back on and that the other stuff worked (phone, internet, lights, alarm,…) then went back to get the family.

Now we are back and the house is almost back to warm normal.? Kathy is taking a shower and I get to go next.? The boys are watching some TV and everything is good!

I’m going to have to get a better fireplace insert and maybe a generator so we can do better for the next time anything like this happens but that will have to wait till Monday.

Big Power Outage

Glenn — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 00:31:31 +0000

Ok, all plans are in disarray…

Our power is out for the 2nd day.? I’m currently over my wife’s folks house.? Hopefully, we’ll have power when we get home and can resume our lives but if not it will be another cold night.

Wish us (and everyone else who doesn’t have power) lots of luck!

Kathy made me BBQ

Glenn — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 02:27:52 +0000

It’s in the mid 30′s F and she made me go out and BBQ some dinner.? Gosh, she’s mean.? I did tell her that this is like the last time till March or April though when the temps start back up.

I don’t mind a little rain but the cold really is nasty to do anything outside.? I guess that comes from thinning my blood by growing up in Southern California.

Man it’s cold!

Glenn — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 23:48:01 +0000

I had to break out some gloves this morning when I walked Xander and Mitchell to school.? There was lots of frost everywhere.? It was foggy too.? Kathy said it wasn’t foggy when she left our area so apparently we are an island of weather.

Of course, this is usually my definitive sign to get up off my duff and winterize the last few things I need to winterize.? That last thing I need to do this year is our sprinkler system which is always fun in cold weather cause I tend to get wet.

Oh well, the joys of home ownership are great and many!