Blizzard of '08

I'm glad I'm retired. No need to go out in this. Thirty yrs. ago we had the blizzard of '78. I remember it well. I had played a late hockey game. It was raining and I had to stop at the UDF ( United Dairy Farmers) to get milk. When I came out it was snowing big flakes. I traveled about 2 miles to the edge of town and the roads were getting slushy. Another 4 miles down the road and the my speed had dropped. As I turned right to go north on Rt 49 I put the truck in 4 wheel drive. By this time the road had all but disappeared. Three more miles and I was in the garage. I got my gear and went in to see if there was anything on the news. I had grown up for about 11 years between Maine and South Dakota. I just knew this was a blizzard. Sure enough they were calling for a super low pressure drop. I went out to the kennel to get our two Malamutes, Lobo and Shanna. The next day all you could see of their 6' high kennel fence was the top 6". The dogs, they just loved it. You couldn't keep them in. They would go out, bury their heads and go to sleep.

78's blizzard was much worse than this one, at least in this area. It went on for over 24 hours. Where we were located they couldn't get to use until the Air Force came up with their snow blower for the runways. A semi was found buried 1/2 mile from our home at a junction of 5 roads. It looked like one large snow drift. The drive, he got out and into town somehow. Our road was only one mile long but it was the only thing with power the whole time. The road 1/2 mile north or south lost power for several days. We had a month old baby, Stephanie, that all the neighbors evidentally knew about because they kept checking in on us on their snowmobiles. We had only been their since Sept. so we didn't really know anyone.

I'm ready for spring. I need to do some gardening. I'm retired, I'm not suppose to play in snow, just watch it at Olympics time. It needs to be TDW, TOP DOWN WEATHER. The little car is itching to be driven. It's autocross time. Where's Summer?

Snow removal

My buddy Gene showed up after we got our latest snow fall. Later we sat and talked over a cup of Caribou coffee. What a guy. Oh yea, we finally got to see his injured finger without bandages (milked it as long as he could, diaper changing is in his activity now) and it looks real good.

I'll get it right one of these days

These pictures were taken during the re-do of the kitchen. We started the night before prepping the walls and going out and getting the new light fixture to replace the drop down type. The next morning I started cutting in the corners at about 9 AM. Shortly after noon we broke and went out to get something to eat. We didn't stop until about 7 PM to take a shower so we could go out to eat for dinner. Got home around 9 or so and started putting everything back together. Finished up around 11 or a little later. Just had to put switch and receptacle covers back on. Now all we have to do is put crown molding up on three of the walls. We don't want to put it up over the sliding door out the back. Just don't think it would look good. Also, we may put up chair mold where the table is sitting next to the wall. If so then we will do something with the lower part of that wall, light paint, vaux finish, lines, just not sure.

Pics will be put up as it is done.

It all started with the light fixture needing to be changed.

The next morning. Everything back in it's place.

Painting completed that night 12 hrs. later.

The rolling was then started