Remember we decided to sell our old camper... Well, we gave up for a bit due to the weather. Today was the first sunny nice day we have had for over a month, and 3 people called. One took it! yippee!! :) He didn't even try to talk me down on price. So we got more for it than we bought it for.
He did say that it was alot nicer than what he had been looking at.
I barely got this shot of him leaving down the driveway.

The kitties are finally enjoying their holiday gift of a new bird feeder.

The birds seem to be enjoying it also.

Ok, things are finally getting back to normal. Suzi had a good commute both Thurs and Fri. and I managed to take the majority of our deck roof to the dump.

They even opened the road to Sultan where there was a mud slide. It is only 1 lane traffic, but they have this fancy traffic light.

Ok, if it wasn't for the weather, I would have nothing to say...
I was in Monroe, so I thought I would take a peek at the Skykomish River. The news said mild to moderate flooding. Not nearly as bad as the rivers both to the north and south of us. I have seen our yard with more water just last year.

First I stopped by the Library to see if there was anything down the ravine. There was more than I expected.

Then I stopped by the road to the new off leash doggie park in Monroe.
The doggie park is on the other side of the building in the distance.

After seeing all this I was curious so I went by the Lewis street park which is on Hwy 203 to Duvall. (which is closed before you get to Duvall).
The trial here goes down to a nice grassy park and some winding trails connecting into Al Borlin Park. This is Woods Creek, with the Skykomish river in the background.

I thought I was done, but had to stop by the Monroe Motel when I noticed the water in Woods Creek jumped the levy.


Shortly after we moved here they had replaced the bridge over the creek here.
Thank goodness, I doubt we could have gotten to town with the old bridge. Doesn't look like a nice meandering creek now does it!

Sunday night we got at least 4 more inches of snow. Then it started to melt.
This was Monday.

It has been a roasting 50F, It is even melting in the mountains now... lots of road closures etc from all the flooding.
Yesterday we could not see this fence behind the snow.

These ducks have been hanging around for more than a week now...

Last week I got our little garden tractor back out to plow the driveway. Kind of missed driving the car...

I thought it would only be a day or two longer before we could drive the car, but looks like it was a good thing I plowed when I did. This is what it looks like today. I cannot plow the stuff I left cause it is solid ice now.

Next week it is supposed to get up to 50F though...

We got woke up a bit early this morning. Our deck roof on the back of the house fell down. It couldn't take all the pressure and weight of all that snow getting saturated with rain. I measured the snow on the roof of the house here is 15inches+ deep.





Luckily it fell when it did. An hour later and the dogs would have been doing their business in the back yard. Another bright side, we were trying to figure out how to take it down anyway.
View from bedroom where we watched from as it fall in slow motion.

Ok, I think I am done catching up on the blog... course lately it does seem like there is always something happening!

This is what our driveway looked like when Suzi went to work this morning.

Our nieghbor's horses Solo and Magnum, seem to be enjoying the snow.

Especially Solo.

Our street is looking better all the time. This was yesterday.

We got stuck in our driveway. Our roundabout is sloped, and when I was going around the circle I slid sideways. Suzi dug us out.

Took the dogs to the doggie walk at Marymoor again.


Saw these geese just walking playing follow the leader.

Spent christmas day making a trail from the garage to the driveway. The kitties got a taste of outside. It was scarry though, Little Loius all of a sudden bolted for the house, even jumping in the deep snow. As he reached the garage we heard the sound of a hawk. It was close. eek Thankfully Louis was alert!



Even the plows were hard at work on christmas. Today is Dec 29, and we still have single lane traffic on our road out front. By the way, the news guy said we have not seen snow like this since 1861! wow!

Merry xmas eve. We made it home tonight. Got more snow at home.


Roads were pretty good from Bellevue to Monroe. Then When we got to Old Owen road the police were diverting traffic from going up the hill. We decided to go the other way, but were concerned about the hill on Bollenbaugh. Sure enough the traffic was backed up on the steep hill with a corner. So we ventured on. Woods creek eventually comes to the other side of Bollenbaugh, but we could not remember what the hills were like going that way. Along the way there were a couple rigs in the ditch, then we had to stop while some guys pushed a car out of the way. Then we came to a spot where there were several stopped vehicles with people out of their rigs talking. 3 trucks ahead of us continued, so we did too. It was a fun hill, steep and long. We made it just fine, with the 4x4 and all the extra weight of the camper. It was kind of fun kind of like playing up in the mountains on the logging roads. Course I only say that because we made it without having to get out of the cab.

Went by Joes. This is the igloo they built on the concrete patio. Bear is in the photo for scale...