Snow Days

The mountain near my home and work gets snow on it a couple times a year but not the entire mountain nor the low lying hills. A cold front went through this morning and everything got a little dusting of beautiful snow.

The top two photos are from the top of the upper PE field at my school. Thankfully, my teaching station was not outside in the cold (the high today was in the low 40's) but in the comfort of the warm gymnasium. Tomorrow all the classes are outside for a run day, the highs are projected to be the same as today. Time to pull out the long underwear and layer it up.

The snow lasted the entire day and will most like last through tomorrow on the mountain. I took this shot driving down the highway of a different side of the same mountain above.

There is one time in my life that I remember it snowing at the house where I grew up. If my memory is correct I was in the 1st or 2nd grade. There was not much snow that was sticking to the ground, around 4". Mom and dad let my sister and I go out and play in it before school. We made a smaller snowman. That day, we went to school late to frolic in the snow. Still waiting for the day it snows again at my house, just not the hills and mountains close by.

Wild Card Hopes

Great weekend (the whole week actually) for the San Francisco Giants. Broom city, a little pay back for what the Rockies did to us last weekend. The new ad campaign in the Bay Area is "I'm In!" referring to everyone Giants- the fans, the players, the managers, the hot dog vendor, the BART driver, the priest. . . are "in" for the Giants being in the post season.

"I'm In!"

With the sweep over the Rockies, the Giants are now tied with them for the Wild Card spot in the playoffs.

What a night for baseball in the city on Friday night. Hot does not even describe what the weather was like at home inland before Amy and I left for the game. The Weather Channel said it was 90 in San Francisco, almost unbelievable. There have been countless times the temperature gauge says over 100 when we leave but quite the opposite upon arriving at the game. For night games, one would be foolish if they did not have their thick jeans, long underwear, the heaviest sweatshirt they own and a jacket with them. Amy and I stayed in our short sleeve t-shirts and carpi pants the whole game and were still very warm. Very odd weather. Amy said, "It feels like earthquake weather". When she says comments like this, my only response is, "Stop saying that right now". The nice evening ended perfectly with a win for the Giants.