In which it totally feels like hump day, but it isn’t.
Weather in the Walla Walla Valley
First there was sun.
Then there was wind. Then there was hail.

Then the power went out. Management decided to send everyone (but me) home, and they all left and had had just enough time to get into their cars… and [...]

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December 19th, 2008

In which twitter got me yesterday afternoon off!
I follow the U-B on twitter, and noticed while at work yesterday afternoon that they’d posted an article about the city wanting people off the streets due to the extreme weather.
So I texted the article link to everyone at work – including management – and within fifteen minutes [...]

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November 24th, 2008

In which there’s a list. A list of stuff. Kinda random stuff, really, now that I think about it.
Friday. 1. In the morning, I got a ride to work from teh BF. He gave me a homemade breakfast sandwich. You gotta admit that that’s some seriously cute shit, when your BF makes you breakfast and [...]

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June 13th, 2008

In which I’m totally thinking about you guys!
I’ve been watching the news and it looks like Iowa’s even damper than necessary.
One of my co-workers just sent me this link and said, “Looks like you got outta there just in time.”

I checked Fairfield weather and y’all don’t seem to be swimming yet, but my thoughts [...]

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February 26th, 2008

In which the weather is totally gorgeous.
I took this picture with my cell yesterday. It’s March and this is what’s happening outside. Spring!
I asked Gramma if there’d be another cold snap yet, and she declined to speculate. She never gives weather predictions; she just shrugs and says, “We’ll see. I’ve seen years when Les had [...]

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In which there might be snow.
…COLDEST AIR OF THE SEASON ON THE WAY WITH SOME SNOW EXPECTED…
AN ARCTIC COLD FRONT WILL CROSS THE AREA SUNDAY BRINGING THE COLDEST AIR OF THE SEASON TO INTERIOR WASHINGTON AND OREGON. TEMPERATURES WILL REMAIN BELOW FREEZING FROM SUNDAY AFTERNOON UNTIL FRIDAY AFTERNOON…WITH VERY COLD OVERNIGHT TEMPERATURES IN THE SINGLE [...]

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January 4th, 2008

In which the weather went just plumb crazy.
A massive storm rolled in this morning. We had 60-mile-an-hour-PLUS wind gusts, and the atmosphere was filled with tons of suspended dust.

All the stuff on the porch ended up in a pile. Gramma went out and released our retired Christmas tree from its stand, and the whole damned [...]

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November 27th, 2007

In which there’s a weather warning for my area!
CONTINUING SNOW IN THE BLUE MOUNTAINS THIS AFTERNOON…ANOTHER CHANCE FOR SIGNIFICANT SNOW ON WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY.
A PACIFIC STORM SYSTEM PUSHED INLAND OVERNIGHT SPREADING PRECIPITATION ACROSS THE AREA. NOW A STRONG WEST TO NORTHWEST UPSLOPE FLOW INTO THE BLUE MOUNTAINS IS AIDING TO PRODUCE SNOW SHOWERS WHICH [...]

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June 21st, 2007

In which it’s raining like hell, and me with only one windshield wiper.
The weather’s here, wish you were beautiful.
Oh, wait, you are beautiful! Well, it’s just started raining cats and dogs here and Truck and I are leaving in a few minutes to drive to Ottumwa for a gig. On the porch a few [...]

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May 2nd, 2007

In which GUESS WHO UNTHINKINGLY WASHED ONLY HER SUMMER CLOTHES like a dumb ass?!
I’m no stranger to the mountains. I’ve been meaning to check the Vail forecast for a week now, because I knew it would be cooler up there.
I finally did. Check the forecast, I mean. And a good thing, too, because I wouldn’t [...]

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April 29th, 2007

In which it’s so sweet, the weather is!
This morning (and by ‘morning,’ you should understand that I mean ‘early afternoon’), I went to the gas station and bought the Sunday Des Moines Register. Then I came home and, in my Indian cotton wrap-around skirt and purple built-in bra tank top that AmmZon gave me as [...]

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April 11th, 2007

In which I’m amazed, dismayed, and groovin’.
1. It fucking snowed. Snowed! On April 11th!
2. I drove past Los Portales and it appears to be closed. Like, permanently. WTF?
3. My b(r)other and I send each other MP3s via gmail. I finally got the last few he’d sent me downloaded and imported into iTunes and synched to [...]

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