ICE & SNOW REVISITED

[Captain O]

Hmmmm.....One inch taller and she would be a perfect circle.

How could that be accomplished? Nobody's perfect.

 

[Lilhigbee]

She tried to turn sideways to fit through a narrow door and found out she had no sideways!!

 

[bsa1917hunter]

21 degrees and sleet at my house.. Freezing rain expected this evening..

 

[Sgt Nambu]

Getting an ice coating on my bamboo, bushes and lines! Hoping the lines hold! I can grow more bamboo!

 

[Captain O]

It is drizzling here in St. Helens and will likely freeze later. I hope that everything thaws out tomorrow.

 

[Caveman Jim]

theres a few places available, not far from the lake also.

Yeah I know one of them I was seriously considering has sold, it was on Elk Ln. I snoozed & I loosed on that one....
I'll keep looking cause I know something always comes around.

 

[PiratePast40]

It is drizzling here in St. Helens and will likely freeze later. I hope that everything thaws out tomorrow.

Supposed to thaw out over the night. Looks really bad anywhere east of Portland and 205.

 

[Caveman Jim]

They say it's colder in the valleys than higher up.
I said F it and cracked an MRE.

This caveman would have cracked another bottle of Crown Royal!!!

 

[Caveman Jim]

Supposed to thaw out over the night. Looks really bad anywhere east of Portland and 205.

It didn't ran very hard just a steady drizzle (normal good fishing rain) but it has not soaked in because the ground is still frozen...

 

[Certaindeaf]

This caveman would have cracked another bottle of Crown Royal!!!

Lol, cheers!
I popped some poppity corn.
It's melting!!!

 

[308]

36 degrees, raining and melting in the Gresham area.

 

[tashworth1]

This caveman would have cracked another bottle of Crown Royal!!!

this hillbilly would have cracked another bottle jack Daniels

 

[Kruel J]

36 degrees, and raining steady and melting slush here on the West side.

 

[Captain O]

Where else can you find Arf, The Wonder Chicken, running for cover?

 

[Captain O]

Getting an ice coating on my bamboo, bushes and lines! Hoping the lines hold! I can grow more bamboo!

If I had "ice on MY bamboo", I'd go to see my urologist!

Arf, The Wonder Chicken, approves this message.

 

[mkwerx]

My father owned a place at Lake Merwin Camper's Hideaway. Lake Merwin is a great place, beautiful part of the state - we loved going up there. The year he sold his property (one of the few that had a wide open view of the lake), was after the 2008 winter that dumped a ton of snow all over the place. He couldn't even get to his place for quite a while because roads weren't being cleared and where they were, it left huge drifts. When he finally got to his place, there was extensive damage to the structure from the sheer weight of the ice and snow. After fixing it back up, he decided to let the place go because it was too much to care for.

We had a place at Camper's Hideaway until I was about 8 or 9 years old. Loved that place. Lean to up against a 5th wheel that was almost more comfortable than the actual house I grew up in. We had a cast iron stove, concrete floors with carpeting, nice view of the lake and trees, a terraced garden. Had the old folks kept the place - crap I don't even want to think what it would've sold for on today's market. I looked at spaces up there last year on their website, just to see, and about pooped myself.

We used to help in the Territorial Days parades in Amboy too - I threw candy to the parade goers from the back of a flatbed truck that lead the floats. Do they even do that in Amboy anymore?

I remember going to see movies in the summer time in the Amphitheater at the Hideaway too - we got to see Back to the Future not long after it came out, open air.

First kokanee I ever caught was caught from the docks down there too, when I was 4 years old - caught on a purple plastic worm with a pink tail, fished under a bobber using my trusty old Zebco 303 combo. Wish I had the picture of that fish still - we had pix of me holding it up, and of it laying against a yard stick. 16 inches - which was huge to me back then. I wouldn't let it be cooked - we kept that damned fish in the freezer for a couple years, and every once in a while I'd take it out and look it over, then put it back, terribly impressed with my heroic catch. I may do the same thing if I ever catch a 10lb bass here in Oregon

Jim - if you get a place up there I may have to bum rides on your boat. Aside from that one koke from the docks, I don't remember Merwin fishing all that well from the bank. We had a boat, too and fished out of that most of the time up there. I know there's kokes, rainbows, and I think chinook? I remember hearing about pike or muskies introduced to control some other invasive fish - those would be fun to hunt down, especially with a fly rod.

Back on topic - here in Da Grove, it's been like 36 degrees and raining and the snow and ice is slowly melting. If they cancel school again I am going to frickin' loose it and send the nastiest e-mail to every school board member and the superintendent - they cancelled school Tuesday because, despite the roads being passable, there was snow on the sidewalks. Not sure what the hell we're paying these clowns to do, or why the school district's maintenance people weren't out being useful, clearing the snow and inspecting the building for leaks or damage caused by the weather. The superintendent or whoever makes the call to cancel school or not is a straight up pussy - and has now cancelled school twice in two weeks when they could've gone. The worst came when they cancelled school because of the *threat* of icy roads - never mind the fact that any ice that may have been ON the roads, was melted by the time the busses would've been running. They *could* have done a 1 or 2 hour delay to be safe, but no, they cancelled school instead. If this crap keeps up, the kids will be going to school during the first week of July

 

[etrain16]

We had a place at Camper's Hideaway until I was about 8 or 9 years old. Loved that place. Lean to up against a 5th wheel that was almost more comfortable than the actual house I grew up in. We had a cast iron stove, concrete floors with carpeting, nice view of the lake and trees, a terraced garden. Had the old folks kept the place - crap I don't even want to think what it would've sold for on today's market. I looked at spaces up there last year on their website, just to see, and about pooped myself.

We used to help in the Territorial Days parades in Amboy too - I threw candy to the parade goers from the back of a flatbed truck that lead the floats. Do they even do that in Amboy anymore?

I remember going to see movies in the summer time in the Amphitheater at the Hideaway too - we got to see Back to the Future not long after it came out, open air.

First kokanee I ever caught was caught from the docks down there too, when I was 4 years old - caught on a purple plastic worm with a pink tail, fished under a bobber using my trusty old Zebco 303 combo. Wish I had the picture of that fish still - we had pix of me holding it up, and of it laying against a yard stick. 16 inches - which was huge to me back then. I wouldn't let it be cooked - we kept that damned fish in the freezer for a couple years, and every once in a while I'd take it out and look it over, then put it back, terribly impressed with my heroic catch. I may do the same thing if I ever catch a 10lb bass here in Oregon

Jim - if you get a place up there I may have to bum rides on your boat. Aside from that one koke from the docks, I don't remember Merwin fishing all that well from the bank. We had a boat, too and fished out of that most of the time up there. I know there's kokes, rainbows, and I think chinook? I remember hearing about pike or muskies introduced to control some other invasive fish - those would be fun to hunt down, especially with a fly rod.

Back on topic - here in Da Grove, it's been like 36 degrees and raining and the snow and ice is slowly melting. If they cancel school again I am going to frickin' loose it and send the nastiest e-mail to every school board member and the superintendent - they cancelled school Tuesday because, despite the roads being passable, there was snow on the sidewalks. Not sure what the hell we're paying these clowns to do, or why the school district's maintenance people weren't out being useful, clearing the snow and inspecting the building for leaks or damage caused by the weather. The superintendent or whoever makes the call to cancel school or not is a straight up pussy - and has now cancelled school twice in two weeks when they could've gone. The worst came when they cancelled school because of the *threat* of icy roads - never mind the fact that any ice that may have been ON the roads, was melted by the time the busses would've been running. They *could* have done a 1 or 2 hour delay to be safe, but no, they cancelled school instead. If this crap keeps up, the kids will be going to school during the first week of July

I think the kokanee were the main reason my dad bought there in the first place. He loved to fish for them. He doesn't do much fishing any longer, but at the time, he was loving it.

 

[oknow]

Got up this am and saw grass. sure do like this freezing rain temp at 8:45 is 46*

 

[Mikej]

Here in beautiful NePo we are hovering 35-36. It's raining lightly with .63" on the rain gauge. The street is a slushy mess and about half the height of the snow is gone. The piles that are left from shoveling will take much longer to go I imagine. Oh, the down spouts are flowing!

 

[HuckleberryFun]

Raining here in SE Portland. Snow is melting.
Could this really be the end?