Why Is It SO DRY?
I don't recall it ever having been as cold in Oregon as it has been this past March. We haven't had near the amount of rain as last year. Except for the dew on the grass, I really haven't seen or felt a lot of moisture. And yet the hills are a golf course green. There have been times they've been capped with snow. It has always been less than a foot, but in this part of Oregon, those few inches are enough to keep buses off the back roads. Some of Jenna's classmates have missed a few weeks because of it. I had told Kayla NOT to bring the trailer tent because the weather had been too cold. They did leave the trailer in Utah - but not because of the weather. She said she was happy about having left it behind. Apparently, the wind had blown for most of their travel here. That was how it had been for us last June when ...