Eight Inches of Spring Snow

was expected. And all that fell here was this:

Spring Snow

It did get pretty chilly, so it makes me glad that we didn’t plant our garden during spring break. I think the daffodils are finished, though. Jr. was disappointed; we told him that we would go sledding if there was enough snow. Kinda hard to sled in snow crumbs. He’s not too badly crushed, we’re heading to one of his school friend’s bday party at Chuck E. Cheese. I’m a little bit leery of the C mouse since Jesse Jr’s own 3rd bday party there. All the kids ended up with vomiting sickness, probably from crawling through those tunnel thingies. (Do you think they’re cleaned every night??) But he should have a great time, and get out a lot of energy, although he says he doesn’t know the little boy from school.  Maybe he will play so hard he’ll be ready for bedtime at 8pm. Mommy and Daddy have lots of school work that we neglected to do during spring break. And tomorrow it’s back to school. Boo.

 

Ice Day

Today is an ice day. No classes for anyone. My school officially cancelled classes. Big Jesse’s school did not. We think their reasoning is b/c they have a small student body and most of them live on campus. Maybe school officials never thought that all of their professors live off campus as well as most of the graduate students. Anyway, Jesse made the smart decision. Their is about an inch of ice on the road in front of our house.

Icy road in front of our house

The ice started yesterday. I was on my way home at about 3 pm when everyone started braking. There have been several times when I’ve been glad to drive a Subaru (with all wheel drive) and yesterday was one of those days. It was one of those moments when I’m braking and just know that I’m not going to stop in time. But my Subaru didn’t let me down. The weather was just turning nasty and there was no salt down on the roads yet. People were all over the shoulders and wheels were spinning out without grabbing onto asphalt. (And what’s up with all the Midwest drivers? I’m a Southern girl and even I know that you don’t continually brake–even with anti-lock brakes–my dad and hubby taught me that!) I was actually passed by a salt truck. Everyone settled down some then and we all went between 10-30 mph behind the salt truck. I was on my way to pick up Jesse Jr. and a drive that normally takes 30 min. took and hour and a half. And on the side road that Jesse Jr’s school is on (right across the street from Big Jesse’s university) there was an accident. Two college girls on their first day of classes. I’d say that qualifies as a bad first day of school.

I picked up Jesse and the remaining half hour drive took another hour. But I was happy we all made it home safely. And even more happy that none of us have to go out in it today. I’m sure Big Jesse’s professors will understand, if they even made it to school.

 

Nasty Weather Ahead

Yesterday and so far today we’ve had some crazy winds. They’ve been in the 40mph range with gusts up to 50mph. And it’s supposed to be around 60 with rain today. No biggie. Except tomorrow the low is expected to be 18 and the high 22. All in time to drive to school for finals. I wonder if the roads are nasty with ice, will they cancel a day of finals? Somehow  that doesn’t sound appealing. It sounds like a big ole’ mess. So let’s hope that the weather peeps are wrong for tomorrow.

 

Snow!

It figures that after Vicki leaves we get snow. It snowed last night and some stuck. Jesse Jr. went to play in it before it all melted.

Light Snow

Snow Shoveling?

Snow Jumper

Yum

The snow’s not supposed to last very long, so Monkey was glad to play in it (and then come inside and drink some hot cocoa).

Also, today is my Mom’s Birthday. Happy B-Day, Mom! (She’s very young today!) Love ya!