Close call!!

Well now......will the fun never end??? After last week's snowstorm, the weather changed.....got warmer and we got a little more snow, then sleet and freezing rain...stayed warmer (30's & 40's daytime) and drizzly/misty. Everything turned icy, of course. Saturday we were going to have someone come sand, but realized that the drizzle was just freezing over the calcium we were putting down to melt ice, so it would do the same with sand.....it'd be a waste of money until the rain stopped.

Yesterday the yard was so icy that DH had trouble getting his van and empty trailer out of his parking area to go to the storage unit to load it for today's work. Hmmmm.....well.....my parking spot is on a hill (next to the house) and it was not so icy, so we decided that we'd park my truck down in the other area and back his van and loaded trailer into my spot....even if my area got icy, he'd be headed downhill to start. If I have to get out, I should be able to do it with some ice melt and 4wd...or just call for the sand guy to come.

Now....we had high high winds in the night, but didn't really think much about it....until this morning.

When I got up and looked out the window I sayLook at this picture......see that small blue speck waaay over at the bottom left of the picture? (it's actually a water bottle with a blue label). Well....when I parked that truck last night, that's about where the front passenger tire was sitting...and it was parallel to the Buick....you could have parked another vehicle between them. Darn good thing we didn't, because what you see in the picture is what we saw this morning.......the wind really was strong enough to blow that truck across the ice to where you see it in the picture!! Talk about shocked!

And, of course, from the house we couldn't tell where it was in relation to the car, so didn't know whether or not it had gotten close enough to hit it until we went out and looked. They're actually about a foot apart.....PHEW!!

Done ramblin!

Mailbox - 0, Plow truck - 1

Sigh. Been saying for years DH should be snowblowing, not plowing, the winter path across the lawn between the driveways. It's on a slope right behind the mailbox post and I always feared the plow truck would slide into it...especially if we've had icing (and we have). Nah, says he. Right. Can anyone guess what happened when he was plowing they yard this morning? Snarl. Our mailbox, post and all, is laying in the back of said truck as I type. Can we say "Ree's not real happy"??? Sigh.....I guess it's a man thing. So...he'll be picking the mail up at the P.O. until he figures out a way to have the mailbox set up for them to deliver to.....coz I'm not driving 9 miles a day just to get the mail!!!

Speaking of that snow.....we got a bunch of it! It was really cold, so it was a dry snow....and it was really windy (they said gusts to 30 mph, but I say more!!), so it blew all over, making it hard to measure....but DH's experienced guess was 14 or 15 inches. There's 4 feet in some spots (like right in front of the house and against the back door!!!) and not a bit in others (like right in front of my truck....which is just unused space, usually!!)

Here are some pictures I took around 6:00 this morning with my almost new camera (early Christmas present to myself - a really cool Canon Rebel XS that I now need to learn how to use properly!!). This first pic is looking out the front door (facing east).....that's one of the support posts for our roof overhang and the snow on it (from the snowblower) is at a height of about 3 feet......so you should be able to guess how deep the snow is out beyond it, huh?

This second picture is that same post, but I'm facing northeast - showing how the snow drifted. As high as it is by the back of the Tundra.....the path in the foreground only had about 3 inches of snow on it!
(notice the mailbox is still in place past the back end of the truck? harumph.)















And here's one of DH plowing - yes, the snow really was up to the truck's headlights in that spot! Since there's no mailbox in the back, it was obviously taken before "the incident". grrrrr.

This last one is a picture of our NEW SHED - it finally got delivered last Thursday, but we need to put some non slip deck enamel on the floor before we start using it much....so when we find time to do that, we'll have to set up the little propane heater to warm it up enough to paint. Oh....and that snow covered lump in front of it? Well.....our car - a Buick LeSabre - is under it somewhere! What looks like the peak of an ice cream cone is about where the middle of the roof is on the car.
Done ramblin!

OW!

Man, does this hurt! Last week my niece, grandniece and I decided to have our weekly Thursday lunch at Applebees. In the process of getting settled, I sat, scooting my chair forward to the table....you know the routine.......grab the chair, lift your butt a bit, pull chair forward, settle butt back down and let go of the chair all kind of in one fluid motion? However.....this chair had a loose seat and lifted as I pulled, which resulted in my index fingers sliding between the chair seat and the frame. But, because it's such an "all in one" motion, before I could react and stop myself from settling my butt back down and letting go of the chair, I'd already done it, and found myself in HORRID PAIN! Both my index fingers had been pinched between the seat and the frame, but the worst part was that the right one got caught on some jagged metal (probably where the frame and seat were supposed to be hooked), and before I could take a breath, I had part of my fingernail ripped off along with a deep puncture wound. (the left finger just slid out and got scraped a bit, no big injury). Talk about shock!!

I have to say, the staff at Applebees was great. My first reaction was to wrap it up to stem the flow of blood - the waitress and assistant manager went and got more napkins and a bag of ice and bandaids. Then I looked at it to determine extent of damage and realized that I was going to need medical care - the piece of fingernail that had been ripped off wasn't off...it was hanging by a thread and was waaaaay up the nailbed. Obviously the bandaids weren't gonna do it, so we requested bandaging materials - which they brought right out (which my niece helped me put on). When I showed them the injury and told them I'd have go for care, their immediate reaction was "no problem, just let us get an incident report filled out and then you go wherever you wish to and have the bill sent to us. I said, of course, fine....but it's stopped bleeding and isn't life threatening, so we're eating lunch first!

So....an hour or so later, the doctor said it didn't look like any nail bed damage, and the puncture looked clean (well, YA.....I pretty much bet that all that blood flushed out any germs!!!) so it should heal well. I had an appointment with my doctor on Monday for my usual PT/INR, so I had her look at it while I was there - I thought it was healing normally, but it doesn't hurt to doublecheck......and I was right. I do, of course, bump the stupid thing a few hundred times a day, so it's sore all the time, of course.......sheesh. But, I've gone from gauze padding and tape to a couple of bandaids with some paper type tape to hold them on.

Meanwhile, things are still busy here.....did I mention that typing with one finger out of commission is really SLOW????

All's well otherwise.

Done Ramblin