A collection of photographs taken in late fall 2007
Thanksgiving at Emerald Heights
ZooLites at Pt. Defiance
Becky and Wally come to visit
Windstorm
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| A Thanksgiving dessert created by Emerald Heights culinary staff | Mo, Kathy, Steve, and Mom take on a game of Rummikube in the common area. Jacy likes the wide open spaces there. | Steve is showing off his Rummikube pieces. | Thanksgiving, Steve, Mo and I took Mom and Dad to the Zoolights display at Pt. Defiance. We arrived at dusk. |
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| You should be able to pick out some NW landmarks - Mt. Rainier, the Narrows bridge | Over the Rainbow....there's Mt. Rainier | Moonlight on Commencement Bay | |
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| Steve and Mom | The "kids" took a ride on the carousel | The "parents" watched | Mom treated us to hot chocolate in the cafeteria |
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| Becky, Wally, and Kathy came to visit us in early December - on a weekend when there was snowfall in Grays Harbor. | The snow-covered trees in back of the house highlight where we removed trees this summer | ||
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| The McGuires get together for dinner | Becky introduces us to the "Wrong Game" | Becky is setting up a game for us to play while Wally takes in breakfast. Wally and I were already working on Diet Pepsi - the breakfast of champions. | I poked my head out the morning of the windstorm and saw forest litter everywhere. I don't think the picture really shows how much junk was blowing about. This area was spotless after we completed our cleanup from logging. Now it's covered with branches and needles. |
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| We had about a dozen trees blow over - this one is North of the house by the garage. I guess Dad will get some more logs for his trail maintenance project! | A few trees snapped off - this one blew over from Sudderth Road towards the house. | The wind was still blowing very hard in the morning. I took this about 10AM and just about half hour later..... | ....one of the trees in the earlier picture had snapped off about 30 feet up the trunk |
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| One tree came across and blocked our road. I got it cleared from the road in the morning. The wind was still blowing very hard and I just left the branches piled on either side of the road until it was safe to get the chipper in. While I was working to clear the road, two more trees came down just to the right of where this picture is taken. | This is taken from Karl Rainey's driveway at the corner mailboxes - you can see the size and quantity of branches that are scattered everywhere | Looking down Sudderth Road you can see a couple of trees blown through the power line on the left. | I asked Mo to check to see if the line was still hot before I started cutting the trees out of the road ;-) |
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| Looking back to the mailboxes along Sudderth Road | Downed power lines by the mailboxes | With power out for over a week, the only hot water is in the bathroom. The generator can run the small point-of-use hot water heater there. So we're setting up to do dishes in the bathroom sinks. | |