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It's been an ugly and crazy month. First we have the massive amounts of snow that finally has gone away from my yard. We got about a foot. That was before christmas so I had a really hard time traveling anywhere I wanted to go to get Christmas presents for friends who happen to live in California. Then, we had a cold snap where it was insanly icy and nobody wanted to drive and then it snowed about two inches and was gone in a day. Of course we have nice weather for about two days and the rain starts. Buckets and Buckets of rain. I live in a nice place where there wasn't any danger of being flooded but let me tell you...I really don't like being isolated. Couldn't go east because the Wynoochee river was over the road, couldn't go around the Olympic Peninsula because the highways out off Aberdeen were completely shut down with water all over the roads. I didn't have it as bad as a friend who was stuck in her little town because the roads in a 10 mile radius where completely covered. The waters are going down but there are still a lot of road closures. The Ranch House Barbecue is this little restaurant that sells pretty amazing home style food. Their building was completely destroyed last December when the creek that bubbles so nicely beside it when all raging and took out the building. The people who own it decieded to rebuild...in the same spot...and the little creek is the major reason why if you want to get to the beach for any reason you have to take the back roads. The little creek is a river once again. I really need to check out pictures and see if the building is still standing. So I am hoping that I will be headed out of town this weekend. I have gift cards at JoAnnes to use and some presents for people in California to buy...I do need to wait for one road to open...darn mudslides.