Soft & Hard Water

Some New Snow Pictures

Martin Ridge This Morning 2014-12-30
Agape (L) and Chalet 14 (R)
(Taken with iPhone 4)

Winter arrived here in Railroad Creek Valley just before Thanksgiving, and like much of the western US we are enjoying arctic air after about a foot of new snow just after Christmas. We have as much snow  or more now as we did at the beginning of February 2014! We also have a lot more power due to the rainy fall and early winter - about 210 kW for the village instead of say, the 120 kW that we might have by now in a more normal year. This means we are still on electric heat (no stoking wood furnaces yet) and can still use clothes dryers: so the season of crunchy shirts has not yet descended upon us!

A Classic What The _? Plastic Deformation...
Gotta love adhesion and cohesion, yes?
(taken with iPhone 4) (and no, the gazer is not me!)

For those of you that might want to see the weather is like here, you can go to the Holden Village website, or to the NOAA weather forecast website.

http://www.holdenvillage.org/weather/

http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=48.19813361113582&lon=-120.75691223144531#UtcOm_XeBbo

And a bonus -
a picture of the reader board outside my office. The cute little LED string (warm white) runs on AA batteries and has a timer - 6 hours on, 18 off. Clever little thing... Has been running since the day before Christmas. That's about 24 hours run time...

Office Reader Board
(taken with iPhone 4)

Observers will note the board includes a picture of Laura and me from when we were on staff here at Holden 26 years ago (1988-1989). In the background (left) - a picture of the NW end of Lake Chelan at Stehekin (also 26 years ago); and art tile from the Moravian Tileworks of Doylestown, Bucks County, Penna: found at the Mercer Museum (also in Doylestown). OK, those pix are pretty fuzzy - but they have been part of my office for a long time, and I am glad to have them here.