Wild Weather Wednesday

Lots to write about.  I have had sporadic internet since last week.  We have had phone/internet issues since moving here last year but today Qwest finally dug up and replaced the bad line.  I'm keeping my fingers crossed that the issues are finally resolved.  Isn't Qwest aware that I have a blog and friends to keep up with?  Sheesh!!!

It has been a wild week.  My husband works for out local PUD and has been called out for power outages several times since the weekend.  We had a crazy windstorm hit Monday night.  He was called out around 10PM.  I didn't see him again until this morning at 1:20AM.  That's over 27 hours.  He was back at work at 9:30AM, came home at 4:45PM, and was called out again around 5:30PM.  Probably more random info than you all wanted to know but with snow and more nasty weather on the way I think it's just going to get crazier.  We have 6 huge trees just like the one above in front of our house.  2 of them are dead and we've been waiting for them to be cut down for over a year.  Whenever we get a west wind like Monday, I get a little nervous.  We have limbs and branches all over our roof and yard.

The view from my Mom's spot.

As part of my "cross training" we drove up to Mount St. Helens last week so we could do litter pick-up for my 2 (2) miles stretches of the Adopt-A-Highway.  One of the stretches includes the area where my Mom's ashes are.  It was a great family day which included playing in the snow.

TMB from Racing With Babes was awesome enough to send me one of her Endurance Bands to test.  I LOVE it.  Review and giveaway on the way.  I ran 4.6 miles last night on the treadmill.  I started to feel my knees acting up toward the end but no real pain.  They feel great today so that makes me hopeful.  I've just been working on a healthier diet and keeping up with my miles.  They may be slow but I'm getting them in.  Better to get them than not be able to run at all.  I'm hoping my efforts will be rewarded.