I have to say the last couple of days have been interesting. Saturday we took the girls up past Union Creek. We would have stopped at the Union Creek snow park, but there were a lot of people and Mr. State Trooper was writing parking tickets to the whole lot because no one had a parking permit. We ended up on a cross country and snowmobile trail. Played up there for a couple of hours until the girls started whining about how they were cold, hurt, hungry and tired. It was fun though. The snow would not pack at all. We couldn't make good snow balls or snow men because the snow would just fall apart.

Sunday we worked around the property. Got a wall in one of the stalls. Now it's almost fully inclosed with just a doorway leading out to the run. We finished a hay shed. And did some misc. around the barn.

Monday I took the girls into town. They didn't have school because of Martin Luther King holiday. I had fun and didn't have to get after any of the girls for being rude to each other. I didn't get embarassed when we went to the mall. They all did very good. I needed that.

Tuesday is one of those days you just wish you hadn't got out of bed and answered the phone. The weather was a whole lot worse than the weather reports were stating. It started snowing by 10 am. By noon my husband had called 12 times. By 1 pm. I had another dozen phone calls. I don't need the news reports to know when school is canceled because every single one of the girls called at least once to see if I was going to pick them up any time soon. And that was only the beginning.

I dash outside to four inches of snow on the truck. I sweap the snow off the front of the truck and slowly get moving. This is nuts. By the time I get to the first school cars are already in the ditches everywhere and these aren't small ditches. The ditches around this area will swallow a car.  I grab the first two girls. Okay, that wasn't bad. Go out on the hwy and well the 4-wheel drive won't engage. I'm spinning the back wheels just to get a few feet. Finally get going smoothly again and the back end starts to slide off the road. This can't be good. I'm on the edge of the ditch and can't move because every time I get going the back slides over more. So I sit and wait. Scott is on the phone with me every five minutes. Sherriff finally gets some guys over to put wait on the back and we get up on the high side. Scott meets me up the road so we can switch vehicles. I still need to get to the other two girls. It's about 2:15 now. I get in the 4runner and head off again. The 4runner has 4-wheel drive and is doing fine. I'm just have to get around one more corner and there is a car on my side of the road along the embankment and a guy is flaging me down. Great, I have to stop. And away I went right into the embankment about 30 feet behind that guy.  I put it in 4 low and I'm getting out when a whole line of traffic starts to go through. The same guy that flags me down starts waving his hands at the Schwan truck moving through. They stop and the truck is sliding my way. AIIIIIYEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!! Now I'm trapped between the cliff wall and an ice cream truck. I don't know how they did it, but they had hit my back tires with theirs and my front tires with their rail step. But I'm not going anywhere and I'm just about a mile from the school.

Call Scott. "Ummm, I'm not going to be home for a while and by the way could you call Dan and see when he could bring a tow truck this way."  Scott tried so hard to keep from losing it, but he was freakin out. I told him I was fine, I just wasn't going anywhere anytime soon. The Schwan guys were cool. They called a towing company. Three hours before they could even get anywhere close to us.  We even got ice cream bars while we waited.

I have never seen so many eager idiots in all of my life. Everyone wanted to get through. So far there are three vehicles blocking the roadway including mine. Ohh, there's another one. Slid into the white car in front of me. Ohh, there's another one slides all the way from the other lane into the rock wall right on the corner. Now this is where it gets good. There's a couple transporting a fifth wheel, you know one of those 35 to 40 footers. They decide they need to get through and the almost made it too. They got all the way around the corner and then the fifth wheel slides off the pavement. Their stuck. The car behind them tries to go around. Poof, that car is now on the side of the fifth wheel and the lady hauling the fifth is upset now. She's mad because she can't believe someone would pass like that. I'm not going there.

Stuck at 2:30.  The girls call me again and I walk around the corner and meet them halfway. The tow trucks didn't arrive until 5. They cleared other vehicles first and then it was our turn. The tow truck managed to get the Schwan truck off with just popping my front tire. Okay, there's a dent in the side of the back bumper and a dent in the front bumper and the tire is lost. We finally got towed home at 7:30.

Not bad for a day of hell freezing over.