If you’ve been following this blog or if you live in the Pacific Northwest, you know the weather this spring so far has been crazy. Cold and wet with regular snow storms and hail. After a long winter of short, cold days, this is not really what we need. The weather changes very quickly around … Read more
Unfortunately, today’s springtime bike ride has been postponed to a later date. Looks like at least another day or two of snow.
Friday was beautiful, yesterday it was snowing and today was somewhere in between. The sun was out, but it was on the cool side, just over 50F for the day’s high temperature. You take advantage of any decent day around here, especially when the weather forecast for the upcoming week is for rain and snow. … Read more
2011 has been one of the coldest and wettest on record here in the Pacific Northwest and it’s getting a little old. It has rained nearly every day in March and it hasn’t even come close to 60 degrees yet this year. So it was great to see the first day of April turn out … Read more
Today is the two year of the anniversary of the WatermanAtWork.com blog. We’ve tried to make it long on adventure with lots of photographs and short on politics and controversy. We hope that a visit to the blog will inspire you to get off the couch or away from the computer and head out the … Read more
After a couple days of rain and cloudy skies, this morning started off bright and sunny, albeit a little cool. Hopped on the bike and headed down the hill only to hit a mini rainstorm about halfway down. There is still gravel on the road from the winter snow plows and when you hit a … Read more
Lots of weather going on right now, most of it bad. It’s been raining, it snowed last night and this morning and today the sun actually came out. With rain in the forecast for the next month or so, you have to get out whenever you can. This is a dynamic area for weather. You … Read more
Spring has officially begun, but winter is still hanging on. We finally got a couple dry days in a row and I’ve been able to get out on the road bike; the mountain bike trails are still too muddy and there is still snow around above 2000′ or so. Even though it’s a bit chilly … Read more
With the winters we have around here, everyone looks forward to spring. Unfortunately, the first day of Spring 2011 is looking like the first day of winter. It’s been raining and snowing off and on here for the past week or so, the snow should be tapering off soon, but the rain is probably going … Read more
Everyone is pretty much aware of the terrible earthquake in Japan by now, our thoughts are with our Japanese friends and their families. Devastation on this scale has rarely been seen in modern history. This is such a huge event, as I am typing this blog entry, small tsunami surges are coming ashore in Washington … Read more