Three weeks down already

It is hard to believe that we have completed 3 weeks working at Oregon State University. Although illness and aches and pains have made parts of the adventure a bit laborious, it has really gone quickly. These past few days have been a bit interesting to us. Here we are in the Willamette Valley with mountains and snow all around us. Yet, the cold and snow that hit the valley yesterday seem to have caused real chaos. Schools closed, wrecks on highways, and all that comes with really nasty weather. Yet, as best I can tell we had about 2 inches of beautiful fluffy snow. One of the pictures here that I took with my cell phone is the same spot in front of the vet school where I showed you the sprouting flowers 3 weeks ago (last post). Georgia will be posting some pictures she took out our apartment windows that morning. If not on her blog they will be on her facebook.

For me the main adventure was this morning as I walked out into 26 degree air for the first time since we got here. (Supposed to be in the teens tonight.)... I relived a morning in January when I went to the car to make my trek to the B and B in Gas City for breakfast...  In that instance, the car door froze in the "open" position. This morning, it was frozen closed. I did get into the passenger side and started the car, thinking it would warm from the inside while I went back up to wait in the warm. Guess I didn't wait long enough because I still had to climb in over the console, bad knee and all. By the time I got to work, I could open it from the inside to get out. I wasn't looking forward to climbing back out over the console. Oh for those fantastic bench seats of the 50's and 60's. With the temp drop tonight I'm a bit apprehensive about this happening again tomorrow. Hopefully since it didn't rain or snow today, there won't be enough moisture there to freeze it shut. I do have some stuff  to unfreeze, but it didn't work in Indiana, so I'm not too keen on that.  nuf for now. skk