For anyone curious if Saint Bernards make good family pets, here is the first in what is hopefully going to be an ongoing feature on our site, pictures of our Saints involved in family life. 

it's been a stormy winter, and the week of January 15th was particularly bad this year.   Many of our club members were travelling to Portland for the Rose City Classic.  The folks who  weren't on the way there had to deal with snow; anywhere from 4 inches to a few feet,  power outages that ranged from just a few hours to days, and then an ice storm, that left everything looking like a crystal fantasy, accompanied by the crashing of trees and tree branches.  
Here are some of the experiences of our club members, collected by Vicki Graves.