Ginny hates it. I think it's great! it never got above 20 degrees all day, and it snowed, and snowed, and snowed! Loved every minute of it.
Yesterday in preparation of the snow, we decided to find out if our two youngest granddaughters had sleds yet. They didn't. They missed out on sledding in December, and I didn't want them to miss out this time. They had never been sledding, and that is something all young people should do.
So, we called all over, and drove all over, and found out that Pleasants Hardware was going to be getting a shipment of sleds and shovels in sometime between 1pm and 5pm. So, we made sure we were there around that time. The saleslady said they would be there sometime during the afternoon, but we should have time to grab some lunch before they arrived. Seems they had a shipment in the morning, and those were gone in an hour.
We left the store and spotted a restaurant across the street called "The Republic" and made our way over there. Ginny had a steak sandwich and fries, both really tasty. I had, and this is not on the list of preferred foods for dieting, but I didn't care, as it was friggin cold out and I was hungry - anyway, I had chili cheese mac! Spicy; great; made my head sweat and my nose run!
Went back to the hardware store and I stood around trying to look like I was looking for something, just waiting for the things to come in. I got there right around 2:30pm. The truck arrived at 4:15... By then there were around 15 people waiting. Ginny grabbed two "SnoBoogy" boards, I paid, and we left to take them to their house.
I told Ginny now that they had sleds they had better go sledding! The reason I said that was because their father, our youngest son, when he was coming up on his ninth birthday, all he talked about was getting a basketball goal for his birthday. So, yours truly went to Sears, and then the hardware for the cement, and spent the greater part of his birthday putting up a basketball goal. I had to stand on the back end of my Pontiac station wagon in order to push the backboard up, hold it with one hand while the other had to place the pin in the pole to hold the thing where it belonged. By the time I finished, I was soaked in sweat, my hands were filthy and bleeding from all the little cuts I had earned while doing this great thing for my son's birthday. I stood back and looked at it, thinking how happy he was going to be.
With that in mind, I almost skipped up the walk and entered the house. Out comes my nine year old son running up to me, and as I waited to hear the words of gratitude flowing from his lips, he said.... "Dad... I want a badminton set!" Amazingly, he lived!
Digging out of the snow was not bad. It was very light, and did not take long. I think I will probably have to do a little more tomorrow, as it seems to be still snowing here and there. They are saying we may have a bit more come Tuesday, and there is a chance for another storm through here next weekend. If that does happen, I guess we'll have to finally admit that it really is winter here! First time in a long time.
This is the first winter I can remember here where we have had two good sized snowstorms in the same winter, but spread out with 6 weeks in between. In the past, we would have one, and another about a week or so later, and that would be it. Not so this year.
Tomorrow, if they re open, we head to Starbucks!
