11:32 am - 42 degrees - raining, foggy...
I haven’t posted in just over a
month and there’s a pretty good reason for that...
On Valentine’s Day, our
computer crashed, or rather the hard drive did.
We lost all our photos, videos and most of everything else since I only
had a very small portion of it backed up.
I was pretty upset. It was not a good day. But lessons were learned.
I was also in the middle of our
Girl Scout cookie season – yes I’m a Girl Scout troop leader to 25 amazing girls. Cookie season is already an insane whirlwind,
and without a computer it just made it that much more interesting... not it a
good way.
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| 2 of the 5 vehicles we needed to haul our troop's 375 cases of cookies. |
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| Caitlyn out working a cookie booth. It was cold out! |
And that whirlwind of craziness was topped off with snow, snow, a little bit of rain, and oh yeah, more snow.
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| Clearing off the road so we can get through. |
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| Snow and fog. |
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| We always keep a handsaw in our rigs so we can clear the road when needed. |
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| Breaking trail on the county road as we head down the mountain. Have to get the kids to school some way. |
Because we have gotten so much snow this winter, Tony has spent a lot of time in the tractor blowing off the driveway and part of the county road. Because he does this, we haven't had any real problems getting on and off the mountain.
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| Blowing off the county road... |
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| ...until we met the county plow guy! |
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| Tony was going to try towing me up, but then he got stuck. |
Tony and Caitlyn hiked home, while Jack and I stayed with the rigs and busted into a box of Girl Scout cookies (what else are you going to do when you're stuck in the snow?).
I managed to rock my rig back and forth enough to get unstuck, before Tony came back with the tractor and towed his truck up while Jack steered - he didn't want to put his chains on. I don't blame him, I don't like putting my chains on either, they're a pain! In fact, in order for me to put chains on, I have to be completely stuck-stuck and unable to move at all.
The last seven miles of our drive home that night only took about 2 hours or so, but we finally made it home. And Tony once again jumped into the tractor to go blow off the driveway.
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| Snowy sunset. |
Fast forward to today, and we once again have a working computer, I just finish the final cookie season reports (YEA!!!), the last several days of rain has helped to melt out the driveway and life is calming down again... and just in time for the next round of heavy snowfall which is due to start tomorrow.
I'm ready to be snowed in again. No winter cabin fever here! Guess where I'm going to be... yup, curled up on the couch with a book!
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| Spotted a used book sale the other morning while running errands and I got all this for $6.50! |
