On one of my snow posts, Chuck quoted something DH has often said …”Just remember that all you need to think about when you think you have it soooo bad you don’t always have to look to far to see that some poor schmuck always has it worse….” 

     That certainly hit home today.  I received an E-mail from my ex brother in law and in it were 20 some pictures taken in Lead, South Dakota back on January 5^th when they were hit with a major blizzard.

     I’d post the pictures but I don’t know who took them so I can’t get their permission.  However, picture if you will snow so deep that it makes huge snowplows look like toy trucks.  Two and three story homes covered to the rooftops and people having to shovel their roofs because there’s at least six feet of snow on them.

     Can you imagine looking out your windows and seeing snow packed up against them?  How about opening your door to a wall of snow?  YIKES!  Yeah, my feelings exactly.  Somehow, that makes the total of 29.9 inches for the winter so far not seem quite so bad.

     If you read yesterday’s post you know that my friend Dave is delighted with this weather.  I am not.  AJ cleared our driveway tonight so that’s not a problem.  We now have to contend with ICE.  The heavy snow on the roofs of our house is dripping and growing into substantial icicles.  Then the drips are hitting the walks and steps turning them into skating rinks.  We are running out of salt.

     Now running out of salt wouldn’t be that bad since normally I can drive to the store and get more.  However, I have a problem.  My van has a flat tire AGAIN.  I thought we were done with this problem after we had the wheels polished and tires checked last month.  Nope.  It’s BAAAACK! 

     I do not drive DH’s truck.  Ever.  I don’t like his truck.  I don’t like to drive it.  I have too many blind spots when I do drive it.  I had one narrow escape while driving his truck and I haven’t driven it since. 

     Then there’s that ice problem again.  I hate ice.  Our street is very icy and for some reason the salt truck skipped us the last two storms. 

     Hey, Dave do you deliver salt?

     We’ve more snow.  It started snowing in the evening, it’s three in the morning Friday as I post this, and still the snow is coming down.  I’m glad I did my regular grocery shopping in the afternoon on Thursday.  My list had grown over the past three weeks, each time I planned to go shopping it snowed. 

     We were out of vegetables, milk, eggs, sugar, almost out of bread, and I had no snacks left for DH to munch on.  There was one box of tissues left and that wasn’t a full one.  Yes, it was time to shop.  I dodged the impending snowstorm panic shoppers as I filled my list.

     I pushed my cart into my favorite clerk’s line and joked with her about panic shoppers while she rang up my order.  Another customer told us about how a friend of hers had stopped for milk on the way home from work before the last storm.  (She has three small kids and was out of milk.)  There was no milk in the case so she went to have a couple of other items checked out and the woman in front of her had eight gallons of milk.  She practically begged the woman to spare her one for her kids.  The woman rudely told her no.  Geez, some people are real idiots.

     This is some winter.  Forty-nine of the fifty states have snow right now.  I wonder how often that has happened.

     It’s snowing.  It’s snowing a lot.  I have to say, that not having to shovel it makes it look prettier than usual.  The dogs didn’t want to go out.  I had to boot them out the door for their last trip outside tonight.  Gavin went a bit more willingly than Patty did.  However, neither one stayed out any longer than was necessary.  I don’t blame them.  I didn’t want to be out there either.  A hot cup of coffee tasted good after that.

     It looks as though G and I won’t be going over to the MIL’s house tomorrow.  We will wait until the roads are clear again.  Cleaning out the house isn’t worth risking our necks over.  There’s always next week.

     I hope we don’t have too many more snowstorms.  I need my hose to thaw out so I can add water to the pond.  Spring can’t get here too soon to suit me.

     Y’all stay warm and have a good day.