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It’s Official: April was COLD!
Posted in Weather on 2-May-2011
We’re thankful for no tornadoes, floods or earthquakes. But for golfers and plant lovers April in North Bend was a bizarre weather month. It was the coldest April since they started keeping weather records in 1891. There was only one day when the high temperature was over 50 degrees (compared to eight last year). Worse for the plants, overnight lows were below freezing every night. As for precipitation, not only did it rain on 20 of the 30 days –that’s typical– but it snowed on five days.
This past Thursday I was looking at one of those lists of daily high and low temps for U.S. and foreign cities that they publish every day in the Seattle Times. It has over 140 cities: our day-time high temperature was lower than almost anywhere on the planet…literally. Only five cities in the list were colder.
Depressingly, the extended forecast is not promising. Summer is likely to be colder than normal the weather experts say.
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Brrrrrr!!!
Posted in Around the house on 18-Apr-2011
We finished our landscape design class, carefully laid out our plan, and made dozens of trips to all the area nurseries. The plants are lined up and fifteen yards of top soils awaits in the driveway. And here we sit in the wettest spring in decades and the coldest first half of April on record. We had several periods of snow this morning and rain showers, thunder and lightning throughout the day.
During a brief sun break late in the afternoon I snapped a photo to capture the current status of our now mud-bound project.
Spring…? Or is it Fall?
Posted in Uncategorized, Weather on 6-Apr-2011
On April 1st I resisted the urge to post a comment on the lousy March weather and given the terrible storms in the northeast and south I feel guilty whining about a little rain. But just for archiving purposes here are a few notes on our local climate experience.
Last month was the rainiest March in fifteen years. Here in North Bend we had some kind of precipitation on 28 of 31 days and overnight lows were below freezing nearly every night. April is off to a similar glum start. It’s rained every day so far –so that’s rain on 33 of the last 36 days– and the looking at the extended forecast we could have precipitation nearly every day this month. Next year we are planing on spending a few weeks of March and April in Arizona.
Fireplace Finished
Posted in Around the house on 31-Mar-2011
The carpenter installed the mantle and after a very long process but our new fireplace is finally finished. Being your own general contractor even for a little job like this is really a hassle. Getting the right heating unit, picking out the stone, finding a mason and a carpenter, scheduling everybody…. Geez! We love the result though.
Planning for Spring
Posted in Around the house on 22-Mar-2011
Trisha and I just finished a landscape design class (four 3-hour sessions). Now we’ll have to see if we can take what we learned in the classroom and make something cool in the back yard. Our focus this spring is the shady area just outside the kitchen window. This is Trisha’s first draft of the planting plan. If it ever stops raining we’ll be heading out to our favorite nurseries to see if we can find the appropriate plants.
To the Dogs
Posted in Entertainment on 12-Mar-2011
We spent a very enjoyable afternoon at the Seattle Kennel Club dog show today. 
I just had to see a bunch of brittanys together. They are just such beautiful animals. These are two of the seventeen competitors. Trisha had the most fun watching the agility competition.
Opera–For the First Time
Posted in Entertainment on 9-Mar-2011
Trisha and I decided to broaden our cultural horizons: tonight we attended a performance of Don Quichotte at the Seattle Opera. I can’t say the singing appealed to me but the staging was just terrific. We particularly enjoyed the real donkey and horse used by Don Quijote and Sancho Panza.
New Floor Begins
Posted in Around the house on 7-Mar-2011
We decided that keeping the carpet clean in the family room was a hopeless task so oak flooring is going in today.
Rachel Coming Back
Posted in Travel on 5-Mar-2011
Iconic Seattle sculpture Rachel the Pig has just about recovered from her February 5th encounter with a wayward taxicab. The Seattle P-I reports that Rachel has been fully rehabilitated and will be back in her Pike Place Market home within a week or so.
New Fireplace
Posted in Around the house on 3-Mar-2011
I’ve never liked our family room fireplace. The used brick facade looked… used, like materials scavenged from the junk yard. And the gas fireplace generated so little heat you had to get right next to it to feel any warmth at all. So after countless visits to various fireplace stores and many more trips to the stone yard we finally got the new stone and fireplace installed; the new look is super. It was quite a mess for three days but the result is great. The 38,000 btu gas unit can get the room up to 80 degrees in minutes. We are working with a carpenter to get a new mantle and that should be finished early in April.
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