Weekend Update

We've been enjoying the great weather here in Seattle. It's been sunny and warm for almost two weeks now. Very North Carolina like in that it actually feels like spring has sprung. The coming/changing of the seasons that you experience there does not happen here. Rather there is just a gradual change from rain to warm to hot in the period of about two weeks...sometime in July or August.

On the flip side, the warmer and drier than usual winter has created no snow in the mountains. This hosed ski season for the most part at nearly all of the local slopes. Further, in normal years, the melting snowpack creates a significant amount of water for the Seattle area. So now we're in an official state of emergency here already and they are asking us to conserve water as much as possible.

We watched the race this weekend and Dad has done a good job with the Fantasy NASCAR tournament...I've picked the winner two of three times this year. I've now got 790 points total. The boys had a rough week as they picked Dale Earnhardt Jr. who wrecked in the first 10 minutes of the race. Too bad. They've got 577 points. Good thing they can't read or they will be pretty upset.

We'll try and get some new pictures and video up shortly. Work is beginning to pick up again for both Julie and me.

Looks like there will be some interesting basketball coming up in the next month or so. I'm hoping that the Tarheels will get to play Washington. This would be in the National Championship game if it happens, which I would be okay with, however painful it may be.

Good luck to all of the teams (except for one...you know who you are).

I'll have the boys fill out a bracket and see how they do.