February 19, 2006

Winter came back

The kids got their first snowday in 6 years last Thursday, 2-26-06! We got 10" of snow and it was supposed to be very windy, along with the heavy snow, so already at 5:15am, school was cancelled. It was a darn good thing, too, because about 9am, the whiteout started!

I ended up having to go to work at the clinic at noon, but only had to stay from 12:10pm until 1:30pm, since they decided to close the clinic. I had to walk there, through unshoveled snow, but did get a ride home.

Then the cold snap came. On Saturday morning, it was -15 on our house thermometer, although, officially, we were at -14. Brrr. It's been cold since the snow, even though during the day today, it did get into the 20's, but it's cold and windy out there now.

Fortunately, it's supposed to be in the 20's during the day, for the rest of the week. We can get cold snaps, but by mid-February, they don't last very long. We were very spoiled by 30-degree temps throughout January and part of February.

Of course, then the snowblower had to die, so DH has been replacing the fuel hoses. We've had the poor thing since the winter of 1988 and I think it needs to be put out of it's misery pretty soon. The thing is only 18 years old, anyway!

Posted by dawnk at February 19, 2006 11:10 PM
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