Damn its getting cold

Here is a pic from a office building in my hometown of Oregon City this morning. Pretty awesome. Every time I see MT Hood from various places around here it just amazes me.

Yes, that's where Timberline Lodge is at. Its a renowned ski area. The lodge was built with the old growth timber and stones from just below the lodge.
Here are a few picks I found of it. Great place to ride to in the summer and have lunch there. I know a lot of pics but it truly is a fantastic place.

Summer months are pretty good. You can cross the MTN passes in just a T-shirt as did Maddog and I last summer crossing through the mountains in Idaho and Montana.
Shoot the wife called me today from the Oregon coast. She was down in Newport as the nursing home where her mother is at called and said they took her to emergency. She's Ok but at 88 yea never know. Anyway she said the temp in Newport which sits right about the middle of the coast in Oregon was up to 71 today. I should have jumped on the bike and rode down there instead of doing yard work.

That place reminds me of this...

Supposed to be 78 sat


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Just saying in case he needs a reason to rent....

Gonna be down in the teens here next week, think I'll put a heated blanket on the scooter.

We don't have any gas available out where we live in the country so everything is electric including the furnace. We have a lot of Hydro Dams here. I also have a pellet stove that we run in the winter. Bikes are kept in the shop and during the winter I run the shop fluorescence lights which keeps the moisture off them.

Our summers are pretty dry and don't often see high humidity. We are only 90 miles from the ocean yet the humidity still is not bad. It's when it rains here in the winter and spring and the dew point gets just right that's when it happens, even the tools inside all the drawers will be full of moisture and the bikes are covered in moisture. Doesn't matter if I even cover the bikes but running those shop fluorescence lights stops it. It's raining hard right now then its gonna freeze next week getting down to 18. There is a cold front moving down on us from Alaska.
We get what we call a Pineapple Express, that's where the weather comes right at us from Hawaii. Brings warm weather and a lot of moisture as in rain. We also get a lot of high pressure areas that push the storms off the pacific right up and over to Sleepy's area in Canada, I know he really appreciates them as they usually dump a lot of snow on him.