After about 3 inches of snow church was cancelled…that turned into 14 over the course of one incredibly white, flurry-filled sabbath. And when it was done, the next day dawned like this.
There's a driveway in there somewhere. The boys' flight was delayed for 6 days. The entire city was on 'emergency vehicles on the road only' warning. It became the 3rd time in the last 10 years that Tony's work shut down and we enjoyed another holiday. We bundled up in our 63 degrees of 'warmth'...just chillin' alright. You know it's cold when...you want to wear gloves indoors, you can feel the wind blowing through the cracks & baseboards of the entire downstairs walls and last-but-not-least, when your wipes are frozen because they were too near one of those aforementioned baseboards. And yes, we had to walk in the snow uphill both ways...
Taking a picture from the second story window cuz there was no way I was going out in -17, -43 with wind chill. Nuh-uh.
But later that day Tony thought he should since he had to earn us some bread come morning.
He lasted 5 minutes, about 5 times with thaw-outs in between before determining his trusty hand shovel was no longer so trusty. It has a new name: insufficient.
School has been cancelled all week & tomorrow is on a '2 hr delay' notice already so we shall see if school will resume for one lone day this week or not. My vote is not. Then the boys won't have ANY days to make up! What a lark, eh? Nothing like a visit from Mother Nature to champion the cause of 'food storage' and 'being prepared…'
I have realized something. Star Valley may not be [one of] my Garden of Eden [s] after all. I have loved the reading of good books, puppet shows, coloring, and extra snuggle time, but yeah, I was starting to go stir crazy. Guess I'm more social than I realized. Go figure.
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