Aggravation

I was going to do a post from the comforts of my living room today.

Someone got the internet installation date wrong.

I won't say who.







Ps: it wasn't me.

Last Thursday night I came down with a sore throat. The next day it turned into a bad, bad, bad sinus infection. I called up my doctor, had a chat, and got a prescription. (A few prescriptions, in fact.) Then the day after that (Saturday) my mom came to town, and I still had a bad, bad, bad sinus infection. Our little town welcomed my mom's visit with a bad, bad, bad wind storm. We lost power until Sunday afternoon. Meanwhile- my bad, bad, bad sinus infection was still living. Mama and I did lots of shopping, lots of eating, and lots of visiting. And my bad, bad, bad sinus infection shuffled along, too.

Mama started her journey back home about an hour ago. She left with some new clothes and a new jacket. She left a Christmas present with me and gave orders to not open it. But, she didn't want to leave with my bad, bad, bad sinus infection.

I can't imagine why....?

Mess

A week or two ago our neck of the woods had a pretty bad storm. Most of you may recall a text or two from me exclaiming that I was driving and getting hit by waves.

Wait... "hit" is an understatement. I think "pelted" or "drenched" are more accurate words.

Then yesterday's storm came along. It started out with some pretty big wind gusts and light rain. Then around dinner time the winds were up to 75 mph. D and I sat on the couch and watched our dual-pane windows bow inward from the pressure.

After 4-5 flickers of lights on, lights off the power gave up. Fortunately we had purchased a propane lantern, just a day ago, for such an occasion. We threw in some candles and badda-bing! We had light.

We were lucky that the power was back on by 10pm. (Considering we were planning on it coming back in a few days like in the past... so we've been told.) A few of our neighbors couldn't make it back to their houses since at least 3 HUGE trees tumbled down across the road.

This morning I ventured outside to see the damage.

(Our neighbor's tree took a dive.)

In other mess news...

I turned this:



Into this:

You're jealous of our sweet brown carpet, aren't you?

August to Today

D's graduation day

Same graduation day- different hat.

The Jersey Shore

Our last Disney trip for awhile.

The exciting drive to Washington.

Somewhere in southern Oregon

The Astoria bridge in Oregon. We have to cross this bad boy to do any type of shopping. Or socialization.

"W" Beach that's just around the corner. It's about a ten minute walk from our front door.

A sign that's frequently seen around our area.

Sunset

View from the 'A' Jetty. This is the CG's secret surf spot. But you have watch out for the mast of a sunken boat. This is a 15 minute walk from our front door.

Bogey's favorite beach. He's still afraid of the baby waves.

Bogey paws

River about 45 minutes away from us.

We love to fish with friends. Bogey loves to play with Gunner.

We also love to fish by ourselves.

Spotting elks is always exciting.

Gunner (6 mos) and Bogey (16 mos) get cuddly.

View on top of a huge mountain.

Not the best idea to go to the top of a mountain to watch waves when there are 60-knot winds. I literally could not move from the force of the wind. The rain stung our faces SO bad, and soaked us our skin.

Picture of our backyard. It hailed most of this morning. (Hence the white spots)

Well Hello

Yes, I still exist.

No, I still don't have internet.

Yes, it's been raining... a lot.

No, I won't be home for Thanksgiving.

Yes, I will post LOTS of new pictures on Friday.

So you better look.

Rain

Today's combination of rain and wind made the water look like a helicopter was landing in the bay. For a few seconds I tried looked way up out of the window to see if there was an actual helicopter.

In my defense I do live on a military base so it is possible.

Since it was raining I thought to myself, several times, that I should finish painting my living room.

Instead, I baked cupcakes.

(I might have eaten half the batter... might...)

Then I ate half of the cupcakes that I baked.

Go me.

Oh... Hello!

Wow... a WHOLE month without a blog post from me. Sorry about that. We're working on the whole internet thing. It just keeps falling to the bottom of our list.

We're still in love with our new town, but all of the locals spurt out, "Wait until the rain gets here!" It's not worrying me that much. Although we did recently have a tsunami warning. It only rose our seas a few inches.

D is busy mess cooking- which he hates. All newbies have to do this early upon their initial arrival. He's counting down the days until his last day of scrubbing dishes for 13 hours a day. After that he'll start learning and studying communications. He's been out on the boats a few times and LOVES it.

I've been spending half my days watching my neighbor's 17-month-old son, G. He's definitely a busy boy. It's a good arrangement for the two of us: his mom gets to go back to work while I get paid and get to use their washer/ dryer for laundry. I'm also still painting the inside of our house. Since the sun has been out so much I've been putting off finishing until it starts raining.

We're getting to know our neighbors really well, and spend a lot of time with them. We've had lots of dinners together but mostly hang out in our front yards. One couple has taught us how to fish for crab. I currently have 14 crabs frozen in my freezer.

I'll end the post with a picture of D the day that he graduation from boot camp. Note how stinkin' skinny he is.