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DinkyInky wrote:Happy Christmas, ya cantankerous old phart!

Sgt. Howard wrote:

DinkyInky wrote:Happy Christmas, ya cantankerous old phart!

OLD?!?... oh... yea, I guess I am... well... HARUMPH!!!

Warrl wrote:On Sunday we went to visit our granddaughter & family, along with my lady's mother, in Montana. Snoqualmie Pass was clear, 4th of July Pass was almost clear, Lookout Pass was... nasty, particularly on the Montana side all the way to St. Regis; I drove at about half normal speed, sometimes less, for about 50 miles.

Today we came home. Lookout pass was almost clear, 4th of July Pass was clear, Snoqualmie Pass was... closed. Along with Stevens Pass. Chinook Pass and Cascade Pass too, but those two are normally closed this time of year. White Pass was the short way, and would add about three hours travel time under the best of circumstances. Taking the brunt of holiday traffic on a twisty two-lane mountain highway isn't the best of circumstances. Neither is having two short sections cut down to one lane while the mountainside under the other lane is being rebuilt. A disabled semi blocking one lane in another spot doesn't improve things. (Seriously, though, there was far more traffic going east than west. The blockages may have added another half-hour to our travel time, but for folks going the other way I'd guess 4-6 hours. Simply because far more people leave Seattle and go east to visit family, than leave the eastern part of the state and go west to visit family. When the time comes for all those folks to head back to their ordinary lives...) Fortunately the road was mostly clear of ice & snow, although the white nightmare was stacked pretty high on both sides.

Anyway, after spending about 13 hours on the road Christmas Eve... on Christmas we plan to hibernate.

Had I but known- you COULD have bunked here in the Okanogan without difficulty, much cheaper than any motel and delighted to biscuits & gravy, scrambled eggs and hashbrowns as well as coffee that rivals Tina's best efforts- you took 90 through Wenatchee, right? 1.5 hours north on 97 would have put you at my doorstep. Next year, maybe...

Then on Saturday we'll go over to Seattle (and NOT over any mountain passes at all!) to visit our daughter and son-in-law.

Sgt. Howard wrote: Had I but known- you COULD have bunked here in the Okanogan without difficulty, much cheaper than any motel and delighted to biscuits & gravy, scrambled eggs and hashbrowns as well as coffee that rivals Tina's best efforts- you took 90 through Wenatchee, right? 1.5 hours north on 97 would have put you at my doorstep. Next year, maybe...

Catawampus wrote:Wesolych Noël, Freunde!

I didn't really go much of anywhere, as I prefer to avoid the crazy people on the roads during the holidays. Cleared a couple of landslides off of the highway, had lunch with a bear who had bad etiquette, watched Die Hard (that movie is filled to the brim with Christmasy spirit, after all), worked with some stained glass and wire, delivered some meals, and now I'm getting ready to settle down with some fresh tamales and a book for a quiet rainy evening. Though first I might do something about that large spider that just wandered out in the the middle of the floor. I wonder if I can somehow attach reindeer antlers and a red nose to it?

TazManiac wrote:. . .and if at all possible; three months from now, half a year hence, do someone a kindness and chalk it up the Holiday Spirit...

Catawampus wrote:

TazManiac wrote:. . .and if at all possible; three months from now, half a year hence, do someone a kindness and chalk it up the Holiday Spirit...

Does refraining from murdering people in the grocery store count?