Some fun in the cold winter sun

 
 
 
 
Well, we bundled up in our matching pointy hats and braved the 40 degree temp. to go to the park across the street today. It was kinda fun getting out of the house and being outside for a little while. 

Spammers suck!

So under the "Thanks a lot universe" heading in the comments section some bastard spammed me. Can't they just stick to email and craigslist where they belong? I feel so violated!

Aaaawwwwwww.....

  

Oh dear....

   Well, this didn't translate too well in the picture, but I was coming north out of Madras on Hwy 97 after driving over Mt Hood ( yeah, the same one I spent $50 of my own gas driving around on a week before looking in vain for snow that wasn't there ) in a literal blizzard. I didn't feel like going back that way so I went around it. Long story longer, I'm driving happily along with not a snowflake in sight, when what did mine eyes behold? My very own mini-blizzard, headed right for me. Stupid Mother Nature.

A little road trip today

 
 
 Well I went up on Mt Hood today to take pretty pictures of the snow, and found none until we went all the way up to Timberline Lodge, which brought out my inner Jack Torrence what with all the snowboarders and all. We did manage to find a few nice things to shoot though. 

The zombie

 
Amy's b-day present per Michelle's request. 

Best. Graffiti. Ever. - 2.0

 
I don't care who you are or where you come from, this is art. This is shot from the shoulder of I5 on the north end of Seattle. The house is on a dead end street that butts up to the freeway. I wonder if the people that own the house even know it's there. 

Thanks a lot, universe!

 
So I drive across town town visit Grammy, thereby recharging my karmic quotient for the day, (or so I thought) and what visage am I met with when I leave the place? Some worthless son of a bitch (probably in a Tri Met bus) takes off my mirror, no note, of course. Check karma off as one more thing I don't beleive in. The (not so) amusing post script to this story is that I went to the parts store to find a replacement and of course they only have them in chrome. So I have to either have mis-matched mirrors, order the black one and drive with no mirror for 10-14 business days, or go junkyard dogging. 

What the crap?!?

 
 
 
Yeah....um, so these are The Doodlebops. I beleive they are tangible evidence of the devil. Run, don't walk! Check out their creepy "fingers"