Chuck's River in the News

Now that the Marmot Dam has come down off of the Sandy River, there are lots of cool pictures and videos. Here is a more in-depth article that describes some of the science surrounding this dam removal. Chuck is part of the on-going effort to monitor changes to the Sandy River in order to better understand how rivers change themselves.

Anniversary

We celebrated our third anniversary on Saturday, 16 February. Yes, that was three days early. Unfortunately the calendar moved the day of the week on us. So we took some liberty with the date and started early...with some delicious cheeses, meats, and breads from the Cowgirl Creamery and Italian wine from Schneider's. It was fabulous!!!

On your next visit...expect some delicious snacks from two of our favorite stores.

Colorado Weekend

We spent four days in Colorado visiting family and friends. The weather was perfect allowing us to explore Boulder on foot, visit our wedding spot on Flagstaff mountain, and spend a day visiting friends in Colorado Springs and Denver. We realized during the visit that Andi had not been back to Boulder since our wedding three years ago--it was great for her to see the mountains, walk around Boulder and relax. She also met Annie and Daniel's son Atticus for the first time. Atticus is 13 months old and the two became fast friends mainly due to Andi's ability to blow bubbles.

We spent part of Sunday visiting Melissa and Fred Cunningham and Melissa Phillips in Colorado Springs. Melissa C. is still recovering from a recent fall on the ice resulting in a titanium plate and 9 screws being placed in her ankle. Melissa P. brought over 2 week son Grant. He's tiny, cute, and very flexible. It was great of everyone to let us invite ourselves over to catch up. After a delicious P.F. Chang's lunch, we were off to Denver. We met up with a few more friends for dinner...Ty Little, and Mike and Kendra Russell.

Here are some pics from our trip.

Catching Up

It's been a crazy few weeks in Condo Podo with Andi and Chuck spread across the continental US for most of January. Chuck snowboarded in Whistler with some friends. It was a convenient trip as friends from Boise are moving to Fairbanks, AK. So Chuck met with Rich and they drove to Whistler for a few days. Chuck then flew to Burlington to meet up with Chris and Jen Tumilowicz and Andi headed to Florida for a meeting in Fort Walton Beach. FWB was really cold but Andi had a great room on the beach and had the opportunity to catch up with Geoff and Andrea Jensen. After returning from Burlington, Chuck flew to Portland (see post below) to do some field work.

National Gallery Skating attempt #2 was a success. Chuck, Andi, and Ashlee got up early yesterday to give skating another shot. We arrived at 1000 for the first skate of the day...Chuck took pictures and laughed at us and Ashlee and I had a great time. After nearly two hours of skating we headed to Georgetown for lunch at Filomena's Italian restaurant. Then we walked around Georgetown, did a little shopping, and a little sightseeing before heading home. Tracy Coyne, in DC for her IMA days stopped, by for dinner. We had a great time catching up with her. She, Erik, and the kidlets are heading to McChord AFB, WA this summer.

This week has been busy catching up with friends in town on business or just for fun...Greg DeWolf, Tracy, Ty Little, Pete Sheridan, Kurt Kremser, and Blairs' Kaiser. There are a few more folks coming in later this month...

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