So I really don’t want my site to be a “100 Reasons I Hate Winter” blog but it seems that it’s turning out that way isn’t it?
So do i need to say it? Yes I think I do. “I HATE SNOW AND WINTER!!!”
Some things I didn’t cover in the video. Yes the basement was flooding. Yes the ground around the foundation is sinking. (Please never buy a house from Alpine Homes; the kings of corner cutting.) Yes it took me three hours of digging and shoveling. And yes, my hands are now sore and blistering. I guess that’s what I get for having a job where I just sit at a desk all day.
On a happier note, I finished the invitations for Jonathan’s big 8th birthday bash. Here is a nice picture of one of them. (I figured that Jonathan should get an invitation too.)
I just hope I can make the rest of the party look as piratey (if that’s even a word).
I don’t mean to keep pounding this one into the ground but have I mentioned how much I hate snow? I have? Oh well then, I’ll make this short.
I think I drive pretty well. I think I even drive pretty well in the snow. I could be wrong, but I have a decent record to present as exhibit A. So yesterday when Joel got back from an errand and said, “Hey if you don’t have to be here for anything specific, you should probably leave early today.” I kinda shrugged it off. Then my wife called sounding quite concerned. I had a little prompting that maybe I should listen.
So I headed home. I made the freeway drive in regular time. I was thinking, “Well, I’ll just play Pirates of Fangor with Jonathan all afternoon or something” I was getting close to empty but I knew I had enough to wait til tomorrow. And besides, that wind looks miserable. I don’t want to stand there at a gas pump and get my face blown off by the 69 MPH gusts.” But then I felt a little prompted to just suck it up and fill the car with gas. So I pulled into the Costco gas and got my face blown off by the wind but had a full tank of gas none-the-less. So off I went.
Then I got another call. “The kids bus isn’t here yet”. What the crap? its almost 4:00. They should have been home long ago. So then I timed the drive through Lehi as part of my Beat the Traffic System research. Made it through downtown Lehi in normal time. And then I saw it. Or should I say, didn’t see it?
The truck that was less than 3 car lengths in front of me just disappeared. Gone. Nothing to see. “Oh there it is again. Wow this snow is really bad.”
Then another call, “K there is a bus here but it’s the wrong bus and there are no kids on it. They said that the Porcupine bus is sitting at the Chevron.”
“Great I’ll just stop and pick them up on the way. It’s only another half mile to the gas station.” An hour later, after watching the hood of my car disappear this time, I pull into the gas station. I walk up to the bus. Hmmm, it’s the wrong bus. Looks like my kids bus went back to the school.
So I head up to the school. It’s 5:00 by now. Saw the kids get off the bus and got them all rounded up and loaded into the car. Man that’s a cold wind.
Then it took 3 hours to make the 3 mile trip home. That’s what happens when there are 2 roads into large growing city and they are both closed due to accidents.
