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Brian Bilbrey December 9, 2023

9 December 2023

Snow days don't really matter much unless the storm takes out the power and the internet, these days. What snow days do is make everything prettier ... and slightly more difficult. Everything is an exercise in dressing appropriately for the task and the wind and the temperature. Last Sunday night, it started snowing right around sundown. We were due for 4.5 inches or so ending mid-Monday morning. Instead we finished up with around 6 inches early in the afternoon, then another inch or so that night. Here's my Monday morning (12/4/2023) view from my office window: The snow was heavy enough…

Brian Bilbrey November 23, 2023

23 November 2023

It's t-shirt weather outside, midday today. We hope you have a lovely holiday. But here's what it looked like yesterday morning... Might as well get used to posting black & white pictures for the next few months...

Brian Bilbrey November 21, 2023

21 November 2023

Not Winter, just yet, but it is swinging the bat in the on-deck circle. We're getting regular overnight lows in the teens (°F), and the smaller ponds and lakes are starting to ice over as the colder temps take hold. The bulk of the leaves are cleared or mulched in - I have one more round of that work to do, probably over the holiday weekend. We didn't miss out on the fall color, though it has come and gone... We had a smattering of snow three weeks back, and perhaps a quarter inch fallen on the ninth, some of…

Brian Bilbrey October 10, 2023

10 October 2023

We've had family visiting in the past few weeks. First Marcia's brother and his wife, then Marcia's niece and her family (hubby and three kids). It was hectic, and fun. We went to the local Common Ground Fair (pricy, crowded ... meh). We went for lobster on the coast (or, in my case, bacon-wrapped scallops), and we did some fishing. Then with the second group: cook outs, a family party, and fishing. A reasonably good time was apparently had by all, including us. Georgia, the rescue mutt, did pretty well with all the hustle and bustle, too. The fishing this…

Brian Bilbrey July 11, 2023

11 July 2023

First, some context: From The Washington Post: Theater is in freefall, and the pandemic isn't the only thing to blame. I place this in light of the woes that the Oregon Shakespeare Festival is going through, as mentioned in that article. And indeed, it's not just the pandemic. For OSF, it was the Almeda Fire of 2020, and it was the smoke filled skies in the Pacific Northwest last year that cancelled so many outdoor performances on the Elizabethan Stage. It was the cracked main load beam in the Angus Bowmar a decade ago that had that venue closed for…