Our Christmas Party

We had our Christmas Party here a few days ago and it went very well.  I have uploaded some pictures of us.  And yes it created quite a stir around here for the tenants when they saw us all dressed up.   It was a lot of fun to see their reactions. 

Their was lots of food and fun for all involved.  The tenants are still talking about it. 

Christmas Party for the Residents

Tonight we had our Christmas Party for our residents.  Some of the tenants decided that they wanted to sing Christmas Carols.  Somehow they managed to talk Laurie into it as well.  The pictures are not very good but you get the idea.   Laurie has a very good singing voice and everyone has commented on it.  It was fun to see her get out of her comfort zone and do something like this.  I am very proud of her for doing it. 


However she is probably still mad at me for yesterday.  We had a layer of black ice all over the place.  All of Southern Oregon was like one great big skating rink.  I spent all day trying to get rock salt and liquid deicer out on the sidewalks.  Laurie was not exactly pleased with me when I told her to stay in the house that I did not need for her to be out there and slip and get hurt.  Just having to be out there myself was bad enough. I ending up falling three seperate times and once you were on the ground it was a real challange to get back onto your feet.  At one point I fell in the middle of the parking lot and had to crawl on my hands and knees to the edge of the lot onto the bark beds before I was able to get stood back up.  What a mess!  Several of our tenants decided that they were going to try to drive on the ice but none of them got very far.  The one car got as far as the speed bump and could not even get over it.  The others decided after they had a confrontation with me that it was not a good idea to be attempting to drive.  The whole town was a mess.  Thankfully it all thawed off during the day and we did not get that cold last night.  I ended up putting down over 200 pounds of rock salt and around 150 gallons of liquid ice melt.  Made for a long yet interesting day

getting cold out!!

The light area in the middle of the photo is actually ice in the trees.

I tried to zoom in a little to get a better look at it.

The pictures really do not do it justice.  It is a indication of how cold it is getting out.

The pictures were taken late this afternoon. Most of the day the mountains have been hidden in a blanket of thick fog.  We got down to a low of 28 last night and we are supposed to get down to 18 degrees tonight.  I got a couple of calls from one of our other properties today wanting to know to mix the de-icer for the sidewalks.  The prediction is that we are going to get snow later this week.  It will actually have to warm up a bit for it to start snowing.  Who knows we just may get a white Christmas this year!!