Snowy Day!

I woke up around 4:30 and decided it was too early to "rise and shine." I stayed in bed another hour then crawled out of bed around 5:30AM. I typically get up around 5AM so I felt like I had gotten an 1/2 hour extra sleep. YAHOO I knew we were to get snow during the night ( a couple inches) so I thought I'd peek outside. Immediately I knew we had gotten more than a few inches and was fairly convinced there would be no school. Within a few min. my cell phone rang with the news that school was canceled. What fun!! That would mean four less hours of work with no bus route however, I still have two cleaning jobs that needed to get worked in as well as trying to figure out what Kristian will do while I leave. hum......what's fun for most is an instant headache for some...So I decided to not worry about it and made my coffee. =) After sipping down a few cups of coffee, then hearing we had about 5 inches yet to come, I decided I should get at the pile already out there. I bundled up and ventured out with walkie talkie, (in case Kristian would wake up and need me) and my handy dandy camera. =) I took several pics of the street and began to shovel away the snow. The mail man typically drudges through the snow from Milly's house to our house so I cleared him a path. It's amazing how quiet it was outside. (Since it was about 6:3oAM I was nearly the only one out.) The snow was sticking to the trees and wires. There was no wind so it simply stayed wherever it landed. Very beautiful!! There were some sounds interrupting my morning shoveling experience. The sound of sirens in the distance lasted about 10 min. Finally, I seen them head toward the hospital. Also, oddly enough there was the sound of a bird singing. After digging out I decided to look at my dead car sitting in the garage. I went to drive it yesterday and nothing. I was much to busy to mess with it but today seemed like the perfect time to jump it and take it to get a new battery. After letting the van run a while to charge the car battery I decided to give it a try. It started...yeah!! I shoveled more snow then came in before leaving for WM, I had get Kristian up, take Kristian potty and get him fed then go to WM to get a new battery. Well, at some point while I was inside it quit running and after about two hours of trying again I decided to call a tow truck. Amazingly enough Kristian my little snoozy bear slept the whole time I was outside. I finally came in after 8AM and he was still sawing logs. That was a bit more than 12 hours of sleep. WOW, wouldn't ya love that!!! Well, enjoy the snowfall pictures and if your blessed enough to not have to live in such parts of the world say a prayer of thanksgiving. If you'd like to be part of this nonsense please don't hesitate to call and I'll clean out the spare room for you. =) Happy Day!! One positive thing the snow does is make my junk pile nearly disappear and the dirt not look so dirty. Can't wait until spring and we can get the junk out of here and get the rest of the grading done and the yard seeded. Ok...I'm out of here for now...=)