We headed to III on a Saturday morning, December 29, 2007. We knew that there was more snow there than what we had around Creston, so it was no surprise that there was 6-7 inches of fresh snow on the ground. The only signs of life we're the animal tracks left by unkown creatures of the wild. We had tree branches down blocking the drive in, so had to pull them to the side so we could drive in. III is totally beautiful with snow on the ground, and on the CEDAR trees.
We (I) spent the late morning getting things ready, the fire going, the propane gas turned on, gathered firewood, got the 4-wheeler out and started. As herself had important errands in town, as usual, and also, what is becomming a habit, she will ask me if there is anything I need. I could only think of one thing, d-con. So, what is the one thing she forgot?
We had fun 4-wheeling in the snow. And for you oldsters, I was provoked into doing some Broderick Crawford's. (donuts for you youngsters).
This weekend, the temperatures only rose to mid to upper twenties during the day, and got down to 12 degrees at nite. This is the coldest its been, but the furnace and fireplace kept us snug as snails. The next step is to see just how cold it gets before we, as my first born daughter says, "bolt" and hightail it outta there.
One of my main jobs at III is to listen to the weather. All the radio stations all week-end had been predicting snow flurries on Monday morning, and continued to do so even on Monday morning. After we got up and got coffee going, we noticed it looked a little more seriously than maybe just flurries. So, I turned on the weather radio, and all of a sudden the forcast went from flurries to moderate to heavy snow for all of Northern Mo and Southern Ia. So we just kind of puttered around taking pictures, had breadfast, and still the snow came. Hard. So the decision was made that maybe, just maybe, we better get the heck out of there. So we packed, headed out to the highway, and made our way to Bethany. It was the long way, but we figured the snow plows would keep the road cleared. Wrong. The highway was completely covered. The only good thing is there was not much traffic. Even the interstate was not good, but it didn't slow down the trucks any. After we got past Leon, it started letting up a bit. The next day we found out they had 7 inches of "flurries".
Overall, we had a fine, snowy weekend at III. At least now I know what it looks like, and will look forward to more winter weekends at III.
Boi
4 comments:
DONUTS!?! You were doing donuts?!? Between you and Dana, my son doesn't stand a chance.
Erica
I think you should have stayed at III instead of bolting!!! I would have!
What in the heck does "Broderick Crawford" mean? It's short for donut?
In Pa's words, and in case anyone else was wondering: "back in 1957 or so, there was a tv show. broderick crawford was a highway patrolman and the show intro
was him in his 1955 ford patrol car roaring down the street, sirens and lights blazing, and he would slam on his brakes, the car would do a donut(broderick
crawford) and he would come to a screeching halt."
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