Ok, so we are returning to Ohio from VT last Wed. The weather man says the weather is clear, no precipitation. Should be smooth sailing unlike the week before when we traveled through an ice storm to get home. Things are good, we leave at 6:30 am, should be home by 7pm. Not too bad. The first 1/2 of the trip is uneventful and we are making good time. 7pm and we will be home, time to watch some TV, have some dinner and relax before going to bed. WRONG!
Just outside of Buffalo it starts to snow. Not too bad, just enough to make you slow down but it is still light out, so maybe we will get home at 7:45. Wishful thinking.
So we hit Cleveland and it is now nearly dark and snowing like a bastard. Fools are on the interstate driving old Trans Ams like they are 4 wheel drive. Not getting home now until after 8.
Outside of Cleveland, less than 4 hrs away from home traffic just stops. We are going nowhere. 18 wheelers are turning off their lights. Must be they know something I don't. Ok so make the most of it and learn something about the Blackberry I have had for a year and still don't know much about. Not getting home until God Knows When.
While we are waiting 4 large tow trucks go buy on the shoulders of the highway. Can't be good. 40 minutes later we start to move, very slowly. Finally we see why traffic was stopped. 1 very small van with both front and rear ends compressed and two very large 18 wheelers with only 1/2 of their front ends in place. Hope the poor person in the van wasn't hurt too badly.
So we are moving slowly again, snow is coming down. We might get home tonight, who knows. Must be 6 inches on the road by this time. No plows or sandtrucks anywhere in sight. Then, all of a sudden, 30 miles from home the snow stops. Just like that, no snow, nothing on the ground. We finally make it home about 10pm and not one flake of snow. Just weird.
It is very cold here though. Colder than normal they tell me. Oh well. Thats life! What the hell can you do anyway?
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Friday, January 2, 2009
Thanks for the Memories
Well Christmas and now New Years have come and gone. Quiet times as Mike and I are here alone and it was too busy a time for family to travel. Christmas was good to me, it always is. It was really great to be able to have a real time computer connection to watch my grandkids open the presents we had sent to them. (For those of you not familiar with it Skype.com has a very user friendly, free service that connects web cams together very easily.)
One of the gifts I bought for Ashley was an American Girl Doll. Mike and I actually went to Chicago to purchase this doll for her. Not her first American Girl Doll, I bought her a Bitty Baby when she was born, but her first "real" American Girl. I bought her the "Doll of the Year, Mya" The make one special doll each year and when the year is over that doll is retired.When she opened it I explained to her, via the internet, that this was a very special doll as only a few of them were made and she was a very lucky little girl to have received one. She said nothing more about it on Christmas, just continued opening her gifts.
So Ashley called me yesterday and was thanking me for all of her gifts and then she started talking about Mya. She said and I quote "Its a very good thing that you were able to go to Chicago to get me my doll. You were lucky Nana to get one of them because they don't make them anymore." I told her she was right and she then asked to speak to her Papa. I gave him the phone so he could talk to her but is was on speaker so I could her everything she said. She started by thanking him for the gifts and then began to talk about Mya again. She told Papa that it was a good thing that he got one of those few dolls for him. She asked how far away Chicago was and Mike told her it was pretty far away. She then asked "how many planes do you need to fly on to get there?" Mike told her that we did not fly we had driven. Ashley asked "Well don't you think you could get there faster if you flew on a plane?" And of course Mike had to say yes. So then Ashley gets to her point. "Well Papa they have another special doll this year, do you think you can get me one?" Mike said we probably could and Ashley told him that he should take a plane so we could get there as soon as possible before all of the dolls were gone. I am trying not to burst out laughing and Mike is speechless. He then tells her that he will discuss it with me and she asks to speak with her Nana. I take the phone and she broaches the subject about getting this years special doll. I assure her that they will still have some dolls when I get there but she is insistent and wants to know I am going to take a plane to go to Chicago. I tell her I will look for a ticket, she than tells me that we have talked long enough and that I have to go and buy plane tickets to go to Chicago. That's my Ashley, the future Brain Surgeon.
For my knitting friends you need to check out this knitting bag, http://www.tombihn.com/page/001/PROD/KNIT/TB0660.
I just found out about it through Ravelry and just had to order one. Judy treat yourself. Well Happy New Year everyone.
One of the gifts I bought for Ashley was an American Girl Doll. Mike and I actually went to Chicago to purchase this doll for her. Not her first American Girl Doll, I bought her a Bitty Baby when she was born, but her first "real" American Girl. I bought her the "Doll of the Year, Mya" The make one special doll each year and when the year is over that doll is retired.When she opened it I explained to her, via the internet, that this was a very special doll as only a few of them were made and she was a very lucky little girl to have received one. She said nothing more about it on Christmas, just continued opening her gifts.
So Ashley called me yesterday and was thanking me for all of her gifts and then she started talking about Mya. She said and I quote "Its a very good thing that you were able to go to Chicago to get me my doll. You were lucky Nana to get one of them because they don't make them anymore." I told her she was right and she then asked to speak to her Papa. I gave him the phone so he could talk to her but is was on speaker so I could her everything she said. She started by thanking him for the gifts and then began to talk about Mya again. She told Papa that it was a good thing that he got one of those few dolls for him. She asked how far away Chicago was and Mike told her it was pretty far away. She then asked "how many planes do you need to fly on to get there?" Mike told her that we did not fly we had driven. Ashley asked "Well don't you think you could get there faster if you flew on a plane?" And of course Mike had to say yes. So then Ashley gets to her point. "Well Papa they have another special doll this year, do you think you can get me one?" Mike said we probably could and Ashley told him that he should take a plane so we could get there as soon as possible before all of the dolls were gone. I am trying not to burst out laughing and Mike is speechless. He then tells her that he will discuss it with me and she asks to speak with her Nana. I take the phone and she broaches the subject about getting this years special doll. I assure her that they will still have some dolls when I get there but she is insistent and wants to know I am going to take a plane to go to Chicago. I tell her I will look for a ticket, she than tells me that we have talked long enough and that I have to go and buy plane tickets to go to Chicago. That's my Ashley, the future Brain Surgeon.
For my knitting friends you need to check out this knitting bag, http://www.tombihn.com/page/001/PROD/KNIT/TB0660.
I just found out about it through Ravelry and just had to order one. Judy treat yourself. Well Happy New Year everyone.
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