Sunday, January 23, 2011
Hello family and friends. Life is good in the Sadler world. We had a lot happen in the last few months. The holidays went well. Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years. Thanksgiving was an adventure for us. A couple days before the holiday we got a really bad storm, according to Washingtonians. It snowed a few inches and completely shut down everything. I was commuting by bus and ferry then. It took me 6 hours to get home. Me and a couple co-workers waited for a bus for 2 hours and realized it wasn’t coming. So we walked a couple miles in the snow to the airport and caught the light rail to Seattle. While on light rail, the interstate was a frozen parking lot. There was an inch or two of ice on the roads and it was fun to watch all the near miss accidents. Luckily I was able to catch the ferry and was picked up by my father-in-law who has a 4-wheel drive Tahoe. We got home and the power was out. It was out for about 24 hours. On Thanksgiving day, the water pump to the city lost power. We spent another 24 hours without water. We chipped holes in my in-laws pond and bucketed water to the house to flush the toilets. The day after Thanksgiving warmed up a little and the pond started thawing. Lola, our intelligent and fearless dog, decided to walk on the frozen pond. The next thing I hear is Lesley screaming that Lola had fallen in. What a horrible sight to see Lola trying to pull herself out of the frozen pond. I ran out the door and grabbed the canoe sitting on the bank of the pond. I dragged it around the pond and jumped in. I started paddling over with my hands and within a few seconds she had pulled herself out. We gave her a warm bath and she’s fine. During this whole fiasco, Ollie had got scared and ran off. We figured he ran down the driveway and would be back as had happened a couple days earlier. Nope. I was wrong. A day went by, then two. No Ollie. We put delivered “Lost” signs to the nearby neighbors. Luckily they called us every day with Ollie sightings. He was too scared to come up to people. So he just wandered in the woods for many days. We put food out for him every day at the neighbor’s house because we couldn’t lure him back across the street to our house. Finally we built a ghetto trap and baited it with steaks and tuna. We would sit a ways off in the bushes and pull a rope when he entered the trap. Finally after 10 days of him running off, Lesley caught him. He was very skinny. He has since fattened up to normal and is now not let out in the yard without a leash.
We were able to spend Christmas in Utah with my family. We road tripped it with Lesley’s parents and our doggies. It was so nice to be home for the holidays. It was great seeing all my grandparents and my new nephew. Between Christmas and New Years, Lesley and I went snowboarding at Brighton for 3 days. The knee-deep powder on the second day was amazing. New Years was fun even though I fell asleep at 10 o’clock. Lesley woke me up for the ball drop. We had to leave on New Years because the weather wasn’t supposed to be good and didn’t want to travel on bad roads. We made it home just fine and didn’t have to stop overnight and wait out any storms.
Other than that, Lesley is doing great. She is getting stir crazy being home so much. Her work is really slow and she really only works on Fridays unless they call her in during the week. She would like to work more but their patient count isn’t high enough that they need her every day. She works per-diem as a radiation therapist (treating cancer patients with radiation). She is hoping to pick up more work at her current clinic or another hospital in the area.
Speaking of Lesley, I better go hang out with her because she has been sick with flu-like symptoms today.
Here’s a link to more of our Christmas pictures:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=597343&id=720885537&l=b8eb420e04
