It started snowing here sometime during the night. Beth’s school is out for winter break, and Jonathan’s classes were canceled. I needed to go to the office though, so I carefully drove in. It was slow going, but there were no problems.
Six of us went to an Indian restaurant for lunch, and I snapped this shot then:
Downtown Concord
I like it when the snow sticks to the trees.
I had come in to work Sunday evening, and was pretty well caught up with my work, so I bailed at 2:30 or so. I wanted to get home while the getting was good.
Road conditions had deteriorated significantly. I held to 30MPH on the Interstate. It wasn’t until I got off that the trouble started. They hadn’t plowed the secondary roads in Canterbury or in Northfield for a while (there was nine inches of new snow on the ground, and six inches of snow in the road). I was having a really hard time climbing the tiniest of hills, and was pretty worried about climbing an unpaved section. It was slow going, and there was plenty of tire spinning, but I made it up that hill eventually.
When I got to the road I live on, I was not able to get up the hill. I guess I was still 300 yards from home, so I called Va and had her dispatch Jonathan with a snow shovel. I just wanted to get my car out of the road and into a neighbor’s driveway. Between shoveling out a path and using the floor mats of my car for traction, we got the car off the road. Then I walked back to the house and got the snowblower. I snowblowed a track for the passenger side of my car on the way from the house, and did the same for the driver’s side on the way up. I parked the snowblower about halfway up, and fought the car all the way up the track I had made. Then I started snowblowing again, and told Jonathan to follow me up.
But he couldn’t. So we traded places. While I was struggling up the hill, a neighbor drove by and offered to pull me up the hill with his 4WD. I accepted his gracious offer, and he took me all the way to my driveway (which Jonathan had cleared earlier). I think I need to buy some new tires.
Whew! Now I’m pretty well exhausted.
February 28, 2011 at 10:52 pm
Man, I hate it when that happens!
I love winter, but this one’s getting long – my back isn’t what it used to be (like maybe my front is??? ) and the shoveling’s been brutal this year!
Glad to hear you made it home, anyway!
February 28, 2011 at 10:58 pm
Thanks. Nice orchid shots BTW. I didn’t know Lady’s Slipper’s were succession plants. I have them on my property, so I guess I better enjoy them while they’re here.
March 1, 2011 at 12:02 am
Another post is about due, if not overdue!