"In our school we were searched for guns and knives on the way in, and if you didn't have any they gave you some." - Emo Philips

I don't think of Eugene as a small town - it's the third largest in OR with about 160,000 residents within the city limits - but the network affiliates go "Off the Air" overnight. I didn't realize any stations anywhere did that anymore. We'd should at least get 30-minute pitches for food storage containers.
"But wait! There's more!!"

It rained pretty hard overnight and this morning I could see where the water runs across our property by where the fir needles had been washed away.
I need to make a drainage channel in front of Barnette.

We went to that church in Franklin this morning. All I'll say about it is that even my excessively gracious wife couldn't wait to get out of there.
Oh my.

I watched David Gregory's interview of Jeb Bush on Meet the Press this morning. I'm impressed with his demeanor, honesty, and humility. I also agree with the pundits at the table afterward who said he's a great candidate except for the fact this isn't 1956. We live in an era of combative personalities, in-your-face confrontations, and the absence of civility. Jeb is ill suited for that environment.

I needed to move, do something active, so I went out this afternoon to work on that posthole, thinking the rain might have softened up the dirt at the bottom of the hole. It had, and I got the last 6" done in a matter of 15 minutes. My first stab-and-pull brought up dirt, but also a 5" long, fat salamander, or something that looked like a salamander. I'd done enough damage that the only thing to do was to finish him off.
I could dig all day in AZ and never come across a living organism. The ground is barren of both flora and fauna. Not so in the PNW.

What's the trick to getting (cheap) pull shades to stay down? 'cause I cannot make it happen.