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snow day


So I left this morning for work…

Driving outa the subdivision I did that little thing you learn to do when you live in places that get snow and stuff… You wiggle the wheel, gun the engine and jam on the breaks to get an idea of how bad the roads are.

After I got done sliding down Fournier Drive in our subdivision… (the sound of ABS brakes engaging is more haunting than reassuring)… I turned around and came home.

No way am I going to let the guys drive the pickup truck in this weather.

Come to find out they wouldn’t have to:

Hard Rock called their employees and told them to stay home.

Lindbergh cancelled classes, (meaning Kevin’s kid laden boss wouldn’t be opening the office today)…

And then there’s me… with my stupid laptop and internet connection. I can still work… and will.

Technology has taken all of the fun out of snow-days

Apparently there’s a threat of tornado’s in the area too… ? Snow tornados?

climate change is wicked.

/babbling

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how to get out of yard work


A machine from the Crestwood town-hall called and informed us that the city will be picking up limbs and storm debris,… for free. All you have to do is just drag stuff out to the curb.

The front elevation of the house now roughly resembles a crude pine fort of sorts.

This is all thanks to Chad and Kevin…

I got bundled up and went outside to survey the damage and help… This of course just made Chad giggle and take pictures of me… (I’m going to have to open that little shutterbug his own Flickr account…. )

Kevin still accuses that I purposely dress like a moron whenever I work in the yard to freak the neighbors out.

I don’t… think I do.. well – maybe just a wee bit?

Actively *not caring* what you pull out of the closet is a kind of passive aggressive fashion sense.

No,… I still don’t buy the argument I am turning into my father….

although he does likes cheese too.

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after the storm


Our power came back on last night around 6pm.

The guys were home first and started binge cleaning so by the time I got home it was mostly back to normal… more importantly – it was WARM.

That storm was something else.

We hung out bundled up in the carport for a good portion of the storm just watching, and listening in awe.

“Eerie” would be the best description for the night.

Raining ice and snow white washing the landscape before our eyes.
Blue-green lightning with occasional pink flashes of transformers blowing in the distance.
and the sounds…

You know that icy, crisp, still silence of a winter nighttime…. Well take that with the groaning and barking of huge branches snapping in the distance… That and these gurgling electrical hums and buzzes of …. (?) – the blowing transformers? … thunder?….

Free Garland

We stopped storm gawking after a close call in the driveway requiring Kevin to grab me and run out of the way from a falling branch from the pine in the front yard.

That tree, as well as the one in the backyard are goners now I’m afraid. They were sickly and gimped to begin with… But now – (what’s left of them) – will probably not survive…. 🙁

We’ve got a tree guy coming this week to give us bids on taking them both down. 🙁 🙁

Meanwhile we used some of those idle, cold, powerless hours to huddle by the fire and make silly signs for the yard.

Yes… It’s one of those “when life gives you lemons” type things – but I dare not speak it…

I *eat* cheese… I don’t write it.

(insert clever serial ending here)