Snow Day

Snow started around 7:00 pm last night. He was running late, then we decided to go straight to the store because he believed we were out of this and that. So we did. Got home a little before 7, did our immediate chores, and when I went out to feed the equines it was already snowing!

Snowed all night, work was cancelled, and it snowed most of the day. He used the snow blower for hours, creating areas and pathways for the horses and dogs. The snow by this time was up to the chests of the minis. Got a little foggy, misty around 2 pm or so. There is about eighteen inches of snow on the ground. We loaded the snowblower into the RAV4 and headed to his mother's house. He should get 'Son of the Year' for this one.

Her road had not been touched. Up to the bumper of the RAV4. He cleared her driveway and sidewalk, and did the neighbor's sidewalk, too. I reminded Mr. Cole that we ain't getting any younger and this is 'heart attack' snow. Very heavy, dense, and at the bottom is a slush puddle.

Mary was thankful for the groceries - she needed things she didn't ask for - Aspirin, bread (her's was moldy, but I'm sure she couldn't tell) orange juice, milk, eggs.

It was raining when we went to the store, started freezing rain as we pulled into the grocery store lot, when we came out it was snowing, again. When we got back to her house from the store it was snowing pretty good - with about 1/2 inch on her driveway - the RAV4 slid backwards while in 'Park' and she asked if I was worried about getting home in this. Yea!!!

It was BAD - only one's out were the snow plows, the ice chuckers and a couple other idiots, like us. Got another 4 inches last night - driving home in the blinding snow, it was so windy! I-270 wasn't much better - some lanes just stopped in a 12 feet tall snow mound. No merge areas, just out there. Our street (Rt 94) has ONE LANE open. 108 is bad enough, and getting deeper as we went along - driving snow - blinding - windy - awful.

I put them all in the barn and brushed off the snow from their backs, picked their feet. The snow balls were solid ice.

Around 9:30 p.m. the lights flickered, tried to come on, went out, back on, out. Then out, dark. We cleared a pathway for the generator to the plug-in site and wheeled it into position. He got the fridge running, the furnace and the well pump. I check water levels in the barn, gave them hay. It was dark and quiet out there.

Ran the generator for another 1/2 hour, then shut it off for the night. It was 51 degrees in the house. The heated buckets were frozen. This is like a Laura Ingalls Wilder story, but now in my little world.