Improbable, Not Impossible

My home in Mariposa is likely getting snowed on while I write this. However unlikely, my residence in Bakersfield is due to receive snow flurries throughout the night and into Friday morning. The snow is following me. I'll try to get pictures if I can. I think the last time that Bakersfield experienced snow was about 7 years ago.

Bakersfield, like many places that are not familiar with such natural phenomena, absolutely shuts down any time it snows. I can remember waking up at about 5 in the morning to a blanket of white. It was pretty cool. We went sledding down at the park, and made snowmen in the front yard. I'm sure there were car wrecks all over town. We don't know how to drive in weather, 'round these parts.

To update - still no baby. Still waiting...

That Old Man Winter, He Just Keeps Blowing

Old Man Winter has paid us a visit. We're visiting our mountain home, for what may be the last time in our pre-natal lives. We had been looking forward to one last bit of mountain living before the baby, which we got. Snow was just frosting on the cake. We did take a bit of a chance this evening. Dinner at Tenaya Lodge sounded too good to pass up. Tenaya Lodge is a little above 5000 feet in elevation, in the village of Fish Camp, California. It was more or less a repeat of a similar trip my wife and I took about a year ago. I was mostly excited that I would be able to use the 4wd on my truck for the first time in the snow. Here in NorCal, Old Man Winter has been fairly gentle.

For others across the country, the winter weather has had greater impact. Keep the citizens and lineworkers of the Great Northwest in your prayers, as they are still reeling from the tremendous weather that pounded the region this past week. The Seattle Times reports that as many as 500,000 remain without power currently, and will remain without power throughout the weekend. I trust that the many electrical workers of the region are working day and night to restore light and heat to thousands of customers across Oregon and Washington states.