I LOVE SNOW!!!!!!!

And I’m sad now that it’s melting, even though, for me, lots of snow usually means hiking up and down my 1/4 mile long driveway in Corbett every day for days, sometimes weeks, on end - usually in the pitch black - hauling groceries and stuff up the hill on sleds or by hand, only to slip about 3/4 of the way up and watching them all slide back down! LOL

It’s worth it though because a snowed-in driveway also means lots of sledding!! (after we’re done using the sled to get the groceries up I mean haha) Our driveway is really steep, with a couple of good turns - great sledding material! It’s taken me years to learn to navigate it though - my brother and I have had some good crashes on that one, let me tell ya!

How did you do through the storm? Did you lose your power at home? We did - we were out almost all of Christmas Eve and Christmas Day! A big thanks to the PGE linemen though who worked all through the holidays in the Gorge area and got us back up and running ASAP!!

I hope you had an awesome Christmas and got to spend some special time with family and friends in spite of the storms! One thing about having a quieter Christmas - it kind of forces you to take some quiet time to focus on the real meaning of Christmas, doesn’t it?? I know I’m usually so crazy busy that’s hard for me to do some years. 

Give me a call this week while I’m in for John Paul 2PM-7PM and tell me about your Christmas! Ring me up at 503-733-5000 or 1-800-533-kupl.

And I hope you and your family have a wonderful New Year ringing in 2009!

How about this snow?!?!? Are you loving it as much as I am?? You might have heard me say on the radio this week that my truck and I slid into a ditch in Corbett last Sunday, and I have the feeling I’m going to be footin’ it 1/4 mile up my driveway tonight cuz my truck will get stuck, but I still LOVE winter and the snow!!

I’m totally hoping for a white Christmas - there’s just nothing else like looking out your windows past the lights of your Christmas tree at a beautiful blanket of white snow on the front yard!

Speaking of the Christmas tree - I should tell you (I’m not sure why, but I feel as though I should) that one of my favorite Christmas traditions is, right after the tree comes home and is put up and decorated, to stick my head halfway into the center of the tree and soak in the smell of the Doug Fir needles and look around at all the lights and pretend that I’m one of the chipmunks on that old Mickey Mouse and Pluto cartoon and I can run around up and down the trunk and all the tree branches.  :-) 

How is your Christmas season shaping up? What are doing this week to celebrate? Let me know tonight at 503-733-5000 or 1-800-533-KUPL

So how’s it going? Are you staying ahead of the Christmas Tide? Keeping up with the shopping and the wrapping and the decorating and the baking and the hosting and the pageants and the concerts?

It’s crazy isn’t it? This is the second year in a row that I’ve promised myself an afternoon at the Singing Christmas Tree at the Keller only to miss it almost before I even realize it’s started!! I AM proud to say though that I got my tree up right on time and even managed to make chocolate covered cherries this weekend! My mom and I started a tradition of making them 5 years ago or so and we try to do it every year. The problem is that chocolate covered cherries have to sit in the fridge and “ripen” for like 6 weeks before you can actually eat them, so we almost never get them made in time for that to happen. So we end up eating them with the goo that’s supposed to be in the middle not really gooey, but more like frosting-texture. NOT that there’s anything wrong with that.

Chocolate covered cherries are the bomb.

Merry Christmas!

I know it’s only the 3rd day of December, but I say - get right into the spirit! (The sooner we do, the sooner we get to start eating fudge and Christmas cookies, right?) And eggnog! I tried Darigold eggnog for the first time this year, and I’m really loving it! I’m a HUGE eggnog fan, so much so that I tried to make my own one year. That…. didn’t work out quite as well as I had hoped, however. Pretty much I ended up with a jugful of runny raw eggs mixed with sugar and spices. Yeah.

So no homemade eggnog for me this year. I’m having enough trouble with my Christmas tree. I went out in the woods around my house on Larch Mt in Corbett and cut one this week, and it was one of those times when the tree looked pretty good in the woods, but not so much when I got it in the house. It has NO limbs on the bottom third, and really not that many on the top two thirds either, so I ended up having to put alot of the ornaments that I usually put on the tree back in the box cuz the tree wasn’t big enough for them! 

 :-P     HOWEVER, like any other red-blooded American who’s grown up watching “A Charlie Brown Christmas,” I have learned to see the good way down deep inside of every Christmas tree and accept it for who it is, so my Christmas will be merry in spite of everything.

 Tell me what you’ve got going on for the holidays! Give me a call tonight - 503-733-5000 or 800-533-kupl! I’ll be waiting for your call!