Telecommuting Snow Day

Yeah - it snowed..  It's a crazy winter wonderland out there today...

It started last night and it was all pretty while driving to church, but on the way home, our exit from the interstate was blocked by a police car with lights.  He was waiting for some idiot in the ditch to stop trying to drive up the snowy weedy hill after driving off the road. There was no chance he'd make it...  We took the next exit and saw another car flipped in the ditch.  I called the local police station to make sure that this one had already been found and it had been.  I really didn't want to stop...

So we got home finally.  The snow was too great for Mary and Joseph and they 're kissing the ground.  

I think they call it a winter wonderland because it's a wonder more people aren't killed by winter.  

 SURE it's pretty!!!

 

But boy oh boy does it make a mess!  and work.

Maddy was given 3 fish yesterday from her prom date from last year.  They're not dating but are good friends and plan to get married to each other if neither are married when they both turn 40.  Apparently that's a good give up point...  Anyway, two of the fish had died by this morning!  Poor Austin and Gibraltar....  The last one alive was given treatment fit for a Triton while the others had a mournful burial at sea with Robb and Maddy whistling Danny Boy in a kind of harmony.  He didn't want to wake the whole house up by pulling out the bagpipes!

 

Also this morning the girls woke up early to let us know it was a snow day.  We already knew and were going to let them sleep in.  Robb and Ryan got the car dug out so they could go to work and got stuck less than a mile from the house.  They'd realized by that time that the roads were beyond terrible and were trying to turn around.  They just got back after getting a ride from a kindly neighbor, who I'm sure will look at us differently from now on...  *you crazy young people you!!!*  *he's really old, he can say that!*  

So anyway, last night I was bemoaning the fact that since I"m a telecommuter.  I never get a snow day off from work...  But today I'm totally ok with it as I walk out to my office, shut the door and turn on some tunes "I" want.  Since it's coming up to Christmas, it'll be somewhat quiet today too!  I should get a lot of projects wrapped up and enjoy some peace and quiet away from the household hub-bub.  

Ahh... telecommuting is the life!