Because I skipped the gym after work yesterday, I caught the tail end of the most excitement my neighborhood has seen as long as I’ve lived here (and frankly, hopefully longer).    Why yes, that is an idling, yet empty cop car blocking the entrance to my driveway.     (With his buddy doing the same to

The snowbanks are shrinking!    It’s still a little depressing in the back yard, but it’s getting better.    I can actually see bare ground back there now.     Heck, if you look really, really carefully below, you can see the composter sticking out of the large front snow bank.   (You can totally

So, let’s add to the last entry: 2015-02-12: 1.32015-02-14: 1.92015-02-15: 0.42015-02-18: 0.42015-02-19: 5.82015-02-21: 1.42015-02-22: 0.1 (data ends here for now) It’s stopped being funny.    Granted, last Sunday was supposed to be a blizzard, and wasn’t.   (Hilariously, York County got 18 inches and we got about five – my kind of cutoff line), but

Let’s recap, shall we? Snowfall totals at the Portland International Jetport: 1/27/15 22.21/28/15 1.61/30/15 4.31/31/15 1.32/2/15 9.92/5/15 2.52/8/15 2.92/9/15 4.12/10/15 1.7 The official data leaves off here, but we got a little more on 2/12.    Oh, and we’ve got another 14 to 20 bearing down on us tonight.    So, that’s 50.5 inches and

Unlike the Blizzard of 2013, the Blizzard of 2015 didn’t happen on a weekend, and didn’t happen overnight so that we woke up to a perfectly sunny, photogenic winter wonderland waiting to be photographed before we cleaned it up. While we did get less snow (24 inches vs 31), I liked this one less. 1.