Blizzard of 2011

Tuesday overnight (2/01/11) a blizzard hit our region. We received 12" - 16" of new snow.

That evening I was out driving around for a little bit. My car nearly got stuck leaving a subdivision. And the high wind gusts made it difficult to determine whether there was oncoming traffic when I was trying to get out. But it all worked out okay.

Later I went to a store to get milk, etc. Amazing how empty stores get once a blizzard has started!

Next morning, we woke up to discover over a foot of new snow. SNOW DAY! Except for Sarah, who really needed to go in to work. Unfortunately, the van got stuck in the snow on the road in front of our driveway... just too deep. But we got the van back up the driveway okay.

The county plowed our road around mid-afternoon. Sarah was finally able to leave for work! I left after her to clear my parents' driveway. Their little snowblower valiantly removed lots of snow from their driveway!

driveway, with lots of snow

ducks' creek is starting to freeze

bush with snow

A Different Kind of War

Not too much had happened yesterday. I felt really tired all day... stupid Monday. In the evening, Sarah found some card games. She and I played Non-Violent Politically Correct War. It's like the regular card game War, except that to win you need to get rid of all your cards. Plus, all the cards have on them nice PC terms like "unity", "diversity" and "peace". Though the Joker card looks like a cross between Rambo and Duke Nukem.  Sarah won, in case you were wondering. By the way, here's a link to the rules.

Overnight we received a few inches of snow. Nice to see the world covered in fresh snow again.

A co-worker at my day job celebrated 25 years with the company today. Hard to imagine working at the same company for so long. The cakes were all pretty good... they had three kinds:

• white with raspberry jam in middle layer,
• chocolate marble with bavarian cream middle layer, and
• chocolate with chocolate icing.

Sarah made empanadas tonight for supper, using a filling I'd made this morning of browned taco meat and chopped onions and green pepper. Mmm... The dough she used was left over from Dutch pigs in a blanket. (If you're up here in Dutch country, be sure to get some. They rock!)

After supper I had an LCS appointment to help a previous customer with a problem he was having with email software and his ISP's email servers. As far as I could tell, the problem was with the ISP. Very strange. And then his email software suddenly started working anyway! I think the ISP's email server doesn't like having multiple email software accessing the same mail account within some arbitrary time frame. Regardless, the customer had already created a Gmail account, so with his permission I set the ISP email to auto-forward everything to there, which I what I've been doing for years.