Wintry Mix
It was kind of an off-weekend. You know how sometimes even when you're giving it a good effort your timing's just off? On everything? That's how it was.
This weekend my mom told me that my Amma is not doing well, health-wise. She will be 91 in a week. Anyone who knows me knows how close we are. It is weighing on the back of my mind. The whole family is hoping she makes it OK through the holidays.
It's been raining and snowing and wintry mixing for days. The river is up and people are worried it might flood like it did last year, when the Hood River tore out hunks of highway 35 and left a swath of gravel and downed trees up the valley. I was sitting at Dog River this afternoon for a coffee+meeting and a ceiling tile not 5 steps from my head crashed to the floor, splattering accumulated rain and wet particleboard across the room.
Just kind of hanging in there today, trusting that things will get back online in good time, as they always do. There's bikram yoga tonight, nothing better on a cold cold day. I hear the weather's gonna clear up later this week. I will get to see my Amma in 2 weeks. And I've alway got my Bobby Bare Jr and Todd Snider.