Good morning Jules!!.....er, good evening to you, smile. I woke up to four inches of snow this morning, and am sitting here looking out the window at it, thinking I'll let my husband do the snow blowing today, haha. No work for me this morning....MLK's birthday.....so I have an extended weekend. Yah!!!
Yeah I figure it's his turn to do it since he's home too this morning.....usually I'm the one that gets stuck with it since I leave later in the mornings for work. Think I'll smile and wave to him out the window. Ooooooh I can be so bad sometimes!!
School is not starting until 10:00am because of the 2-3" of snow we got yesterday evening. Fortunately, the school phone system called about 10 minutes before I would have gotten the boy up so he gets to sleep in a while.
Mrs Web is also off today for MLK because she works in a bank.
MLK Monday now always reminds me of this incident . . .
A couple years ago, my wife was off work on MLK Monday so we went to the Chinese restaurant for lunch. I was sitting by the window and had a straight view of our county court house about 1.5 blocks from the restaurant.
As we were sitting there eating, I saw someone walking up the long sidewalk toward the court house. The whole time, I was quietly saying "Its closed . . . its closed . . . its closed". Finally, the person got to the top of the steps and pulled on the locked door. As he then turned around to leave, I could then tell it was a black man.
Now, generally, that is nothing to think about, but at that time, there were only about three black families in our entire town. I just found it ironic that in the hour I sat there, the only person I saw try to get into the closed court house on MLK day was one of very few black people that live here.
Hmmm, Chinese buffet sounds good for lunch again today.
ghostdancer wrote: Web, they close schools there for 3 inches of snow?? Here we need at least 6 to close 'em and sometimes even then there will be school.
Living down here in TN, we don't get a lot of big snows, Big= 3 inches and better. Since we aren't equipped with a lot of snow removal equipment, we shut down at the beginning of flurries. I think the schools are worried about liability if s should happen due to slick roads. That plus we always build in the snow days when they put together the school calendar so I guess they think they might as well use them. Our drivers are pretty bad down here. They think rain should slow them down to 75 mph and snow to about 70. They don't worry about having car lengths between the car in front of them because they are worried someone will change lanes and get in front of them. I'm afraid our Southern charm and manners go to the wayside when we get behind the wheel.
All this snow and ice talk is so foreign to me!!! So weird to think while it is snowing there it is blazing hot here! I feel guilty for swimming and trying to escape heat when all you guys need is some heat!
They didn't close school today, it is just starting late. They can start at 10:00 and still have it count as a full day. Being the rural area we are, a good percentage of students here either ride a buss or drive in several miles on open country roads. The late start just gives them more time to get in without having to rush.
The school superintendent lives across the street from me. I see he's out blowing his own snow right now . . . maybe he just decided he wanted time to do that before having to go to work himself.
It's ok Jules, I forgive you....grudgingly of course, haha. I always tell people that don't know what cold really is to do this.....open the freezer in your fridge, stick your head in it for a few minutes.....that's MI weather in the winter. haha
My sister-in-law lives in Hawaii....never saw snow before....she came here for a visit a few winters ago.....was actually nice when she arrived.....the third day here, we got a blizzard which dumped over a foot of snow on us.....she stayed outside playing in the snow almost the entire day.....later, when the snow plows went through, she went out to the store.....wasn't gone very long, came back and asked how do you drive on this stuff??? She didn't drive again the rest of the time she was here.
Good mornoonevening everyone, I will be on the road for the next 6 to 7 hours today, I have a bizness trip to Denver with some continuing education tests tomorrow. Everyone have a great couple days and I'll see ya when I get back.
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Ooooooh I can be so bad sometimes!!
