We Haven't Even Been Seeing Today was to have met Charm at Boulder at 9:15 and go to chemo. She also had an appointment in Jackson this afternoon, so last week I switched from Tuesday back to Monday to go with her so as not to have one of us making an unnecessary trip. (Deanne was going to go with me on Tuesday and I canceled that. She and I will go together next week.) This morning got up early and got ready to go. Joe went to get my car out and the battery was dead. Something may have been going on with the headlights too and somehow they may have gotten left on, I don't know, since he puts the car away. Back at the beginning of winter Joe said it was time for a new battery for the car and I thought he got one, until I finally asked a week or so ago, and he said it was my car, that I needed to go to the auto parts store and tell them I need a battery. So that's how that went..... He got his truck out for me to take. It's got his snowmachine in the bed. I loaded up the cooler and have been taking a small overnight bag in case we couldn't get home, some bran muffins for breakfast on the way, and started off. Could have guessed ahead of time I wouldn't make it. It was a total white out and the wind was blowing. I could not see a thing or distinguish where the edge of the plowed road was from anything around it, and was just creeping along. You need to have a little more oomph than that for going in 4WD. I was lucky not to have gone off into the ditch at the gate or into the creek, as when I got there I could feel I was too close to the left edge and sloping down, but was able to head back over and on up the hill. When I got to the cattle guard I got turned around in a place Frosty had cleared out there and came back home. I would have quit it before then, but there was no place to get turned around. I called Charm but she was gone. Jim went on his snowmachine and caught her to let her know I wouldn't be there at Boulder. I knew it wouldn't be long before it would begin to brighten up, but not in time to meet Charm. And by 10:30 the sun was shining through the fog, plenty bright enough to drive. This all really got me down about more than any time since this all started, I don't know why. But I felt like this yesterday too. Guess its allowed once in a while. Sandra soon called to see if I went out, and had stories about sitting at her window and watching trucks running off the county road going past her house and getting each other pulled out one after another yesterday. She said it was a good thing I hadn't tried to go today. This morning a guy walked into their place and had run his truck off into the irrigation ditch down the road and was asking for help. Dave was going to help him, but when he got there the county snow plow was pulling him out. Dave also creeped along to work at the airport. It snowed lightly night before last, all day yesterday and , most of last night and is still snowing this morning, snowed off and on all the rest of the day. We've had this fog and white out forever it seems. There may be 7 new inches or so by this afternoon. Before noon Frosty came in with the plow - the piles of snow he is moving out of the road are growing - even though the road is good now I'm not going today - it wasn't the road or snow depth, it was the bad visibility. Will see what tomorrow is like - it should be better and then more storm predicted on Wednesday. Salt Lake says they have broken records for snowfall in January, however I don't think we have - yet. Well that's been my morning. If anything more interesting happens I'll be back. After procrastinating all day long at 4:55 I called the chemo dept. and said I would try again to come up in the morning depending on the weather. Charm got home o.k. about 7:30, she called and let me know. She said it was a long day.
