A bit late

but I hope you had a great Christmas and a Happy New Year. We opened our gifts a bit late after my parents got here:









Here is mom cooking up some fried chicken.


Someone is tired!!!


We took the tree down on the second.

Christmas Day

While Karen was at work I went up to Mt Charleston in the Spring Mountain Range to the west of the Vegas Valley.


Here is Karen in her Santa hat going to work.


This is a picture of a Baptist Church up by Mt. Chalreston. I edited it using a photoshop plugin that is supposed to give High Dynamic Range(HDR) type results. I think it came out pretty nice.


On top of a mountain looking down on the main road in.


Me on top of the world!!!



They were in the process of getting about 1' of snow up there. There were police check points to make sure that you had either snow chains or 4 wheel drive. If not, you couldn't go in.

Station Casinos

Station Casinos is the casino chain that bills itself as the casino for "Locals". It includes the Red Rock Casino, Station Casino, Palace Station(O.J. Fame), Aliante Station(Brand New at a cost of $662 million), Texas Stations, Sunset Station, Fiesta Station and the Wild Wild West Casino among others is widely expected to be in default on its massive debts and to file for bankruptcy protection later this month as it runs out of money. It just drew down the last of $250 million of credit that it expects would not be available after filing bankruptcy.

Red Rock Canyon

I went to Red Rock Canyon to see the snow there. Unfortunately, most of it was gone. There must have been quite a bit at one point, but I was too late.


This is from the Red Rock Canyon overlook:


Well it IS Sin City:


I decided instead to go to Spring Mountain which has an elevation of about 5900 feet hoping to see more snow.

Roll up the carpet

McCarran Airport? Closed-No de icing equipment, snow plows, or salt trucks.

Schools? Closed

City of Henderson? Closed

Highways leading south to L.A.? Closed

Highways leading to Pahrump? Closed

U.S. Route 95? Closed.

The record for most snow ever in December in Las Vegas? Broken

Henderson(More or less where wee live) is predicted to get 7" by Thursday Morning. Then we are to switch over to freezing rain/sleet.

Mind you there are no salt trucks in Vegas although they are going to try and do something to some of the overpasses on the freeway.

Let it snow, Let it Snow.....

Today it is snowing heavily in all of the Las Vegas valley. This may turn out to be the biggest snow storm in Vaegas in over 30 years. I took my camera hoping to get some pics of the snowy mountains and instead got to take pictures of a blizzard, well for Vegas its a blizzard! They have extended the winter storm warning for 4AM-10PM to 4AM-4AM with up to 6". It started snowing where I was at about 12 ish. It was mostly a rain/snow mix that turned to mostly rain until about 2PM. Then it became all snow as I drove home.
First off is the Spring Mountains to the west from early morning:


They were more stunning yesterday because the sun was out but oh well.


Snowy Las Vegas sign.


I-15 near the strip.


The Luxor in a snow storm.


He looks cold.








Kids in front of our house playing.




Our house!




Plant in our front yard.








oppsss!









In Vegas, snow is a good thing!!!