Thursday April 9 2009

Yesterday didn't do anything special most of the day. It was fairly nice in the morning, but by the time I was ready to walk the dogs it was ominous and the thunder was rolling nearly constantly and wind was blowing. We just walked up to the top of the hill and I took a few pictures from there. The three dark ones are looking west, and the one with the dogs is looking south.

Yesterday Afternoon

Here it comes!

Looking West - Steady Thunder

Dogs got to walk a little anyway.

Looking South towards Bonnies.

Came back home, and soon started the hot potato salad. We ate a little early because this was the night we were going to see Avner the Eccentric at the school. But by that time there was a terrible blizzard raging with strong wind. It plastered all the windows solid, and I want to say about 3 inches of snow fell in about 30 minutes before it began to let up. I called Bonnie to see how it was out her way, and she wasn't sure she was going to drive in it. They already had six inches and it was piled halfway up their garage door. After getting dinner cleaned up I jumped in the shower and dressed in warm clothes and boots. While I was getting ready Bonnie called and told Joe she was going to come on in. Craig shoveled the garage door so she could get out. There hadn't been much traffic on the road yet and she said it was a little tough driving in the heavy wet snow. I had no trouble getting down the hill to town, only 5 minutes to the school from here, and the road was already all slushy and dirty.

At the School, Looking Toward Home

The Auditorium

Street in Front of the School

They had a little less than we did at the house

and already melting.

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We met Kathy and James in the lobby. He had gotten tickets for Bonnie and I, and gifted us with them, which was very nice of him. Thank you James. The performance was good. This time the theatre wasn't even half full. I'm sure lots of people didn't come out because of the storm. Avner the Eccentric was funny, not quite as funny as I thought it would be, but I chuckled all the way through it. It was mostly a pantomime and he did a lot of different things - juggling, balancing a ladder on his chin, magic tricks, and a lot of goofy clown type things. I'm glad I went and glad that Bonnie came in too. She had to drive back home again in the dark with the snow pretty deep, but she made it o.k.

Charm wrote today about the storm at her place: "It snowed SO HARD late yesterday afternoon and evening that it reminded me of times in Austria. There was a wall of white outside my window. Some aspen trees are down. I suppose we had about eight inches when finally said and done and it was just full of moisture. The yard is a fright. A soupy mess. " After I got home I got the bills all paid and the checking account balanced with the online statement. Then I decided to put the smart cards in the Dish TV receivers because time was probably up - I had a message on the screen almost continually for a couple of weeks now. And wouldn't you know I ended up on the phone at midnight with the tech people. They had mailed me two cards - said to put a card in each of our two receivers, but turned out the one in the living room didn't need one and apparently never will. I was all wound up with all that and didn't even go to bed until one. The TV worked fine, no more error messages thank goodness. That's been annoying. My fault for procrastinating so long.

A hawk in the tree

So here is what we woke up to this morning. Another four or five inches that fell during the night. Very pretty. It stayed dark, windy and cloudy most of the day. It wasn't very cold and by night had mostly melted back off. Joe shoveled the front walk and deck, then went to coffee, then later back to town to get his haircut. I did more paperwork, sorted and filed, made a couple of phone calls to pay more bills on the phone, downloaded the photos. Can see the desktop again. I don't know where the day went but I stayed busy and didn't go out. Made us fajitas for dinner.