Snow days - not for me - but the local schools were closed Thursday and Friday. Thursday's closing seemed unnecessary, but that's in retrospect - glad I don't have to make the decisions. My Bible Study was cancelled because by evening it was snowing more heavily and they predicted lots of wind - which never really materialized. I did a little scrapbooking - a page on My Faith Heritage - does that count for Bible Study?? Maybe not, but I did reflect on being baptized and never again darkening the doors of that church. God put his mark on me that day in 1956, though, and drew me ever closer to him in subsequent years as my parents started regular church attendance.
Friday morning it felt like the winters of my childhood. Snow was piled everywhere and streets were barely plowed - single lane in places, evena couple days later. People who had parked on the street seemed stunned that the snow plows had nearly buried their cars. Paul got out the snowblower and tackled the driveway and sidewalk, while I shoveled steps and out to the cars to sweep them off. Even with the push broom, it was hard work getting it off the car roofs. I had to shovel just to open my car door and get the scraper out. At work, by 10:30 I was ravenous - my usual bowl of Cheerioes had worn off. I guess I should do a little more regular exercise! People in my building chipped in to buy pizza for lunch, (hoping the delivery guy could make it as it was still snowing!) and we had a lot of fun eating and laughing together at noon. Even though we worked, it felt a little like a snow day. My coworker said her 4 year old son told her he was jumping in "snow puddles."
When I arrived home, Paul's car was on the street - the plow had heavily filled in the end of the driveway - we used shovels for a few minutes, but Paul retrieved the snowblower to finish the job - heavy wet snow is not fun! I was out this morning for a while, and when I came back, found it again plowed full! This time the neighbor was out and cleared our driveway with his snowblower.
Hope the robins I saw last week found a protected place! Maybe spring's not quite here - but it's coming!
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I have learned that I am now to old for snow days. All the girls in my dorm were running around screaming because classes were canceled. But, I did not matter at all to me because I still had to go to work. Being an adult some times stinks!
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