Ghost Town

Hell, I've been strongly discouraging all travel throughout the Texas Panhandle for decades. https://www.facebook.com/ABC7Amarillo/posts/984937991580456?fref=nf

I think I've been watching too much "Man in the High Castle" this holiday season. Last night, I dreamed that the Nazis took over and one of my old college professors was the Obergruppenführer.

TIL that the lyrics to "Baa Baa Black Sheep" are not "Baa, baa, black sheep, have you any coal ?" They are "Baa, baa, black sheep, have you any wool ?" I always thought that Baa Baa Black Sheep was black with soot from working down in the coal mines, and now was having to carry the coal. I thought he was the original coal train.

October 15, 2015: "A strong El Niño this winter is predicted to intensify the Western drought through at least January, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced." #ThrowbackThursday #AndTimbersWereGoingToMissPlayoffs http://www.newsweek.com/el-nino-drought-pacific-northwest-noaa-winter-outlook-383831

#AustintheBeagle, along with his late lamented brother #ClydetheBeagle, and many other beagles, is infamous for his Escape Artistry. But this morning he outdid himself with an attempt to escape from our eighth-floor downtown Portland apartment. Mom was leaving and he sneaked out the door behind her. The workers who have been updating the electricity in our 70-year-old building had left the door to the stairwell open, and he raced through that door and down the stairs. Here's the thing: beagles are not as dumb as they say. The stairs go down to the basement, but he did not follow them all the way. He stopped at the ground floor; when I caught up with him, he was staring at the closed first-floor door. ( Curses! Foiled again! ) I hauled him back upstairs on the elevator and he immediately went to the closet where we keep his treats. He actually thought he deserved a treat for this escapade! (For other escape attempts by Austin see: https://goo.gl/BjYbPX https://goo.gl/ugA8dm and ...

Okay, Portland, when we were talking about "ending the drought" all weekend, it was a metaphor for the Timbers being in the first championship match in forty years and then winning their first MLS Cup. Okay? We weren't exactly asking for relief from a literal drought, at least not this much relief. We didn't need all the rain at once.

#AustintheBeagle is ready for the #MLSCup. #Timbers #RCTID