What a day!

Man, interesting morning.

I left the house 6:15 a.m. thinking oh cool, I'll have time to scrape the snow off the van and be at Opa's before 6:30.

So we got the snow cleared off. Perfect.

I get in the van. The clock says 6:35. WHAT???

*sigh*

So I take Josh to Opa's, and I told him, seems the clock is faster than I can even blink! What is with that? He just laughed.

So, then I took off....thinking I'll grab my breakfast on the road in Saline.

The drive wasn't bad but I just realized how much I hate the darkness. I. Can't. See. Scaaaaaaary.

After pulling into McD's drive through....I'm thinking, I got enough $. So I'll just get a nice hot breakfast and a hot Mocha. Yum. I could only find 5 bucks. Huh? So I settled for just a breakfast combo with a coke for under 5 bucks. (if I get one with Mocha it would be 5 and change).

Driving along and as I neared the overpass over 23, into Ypsi, the skies were lighting up pink. First I thought I missed something, was that a flash of something?

Then saw it again. Wow. Like a bomb going off behind the clouds. Then it happened again! whoa! Purty, though. But I was like, um, okay God, what are you trying to tell me? Um, thanks? um....what? (I'm talking away with God...).

Got to work, and parked inside the parking structure, knowing the weather will get worse later today (and colder) and not want to scrape snow off ...again.

I see another person standing outside his car, putting on his coat, then his scarf, then his hat, gloves, grabbing his bags, and then he locks up his car. And I could see he let out a big sigh. Must be a long distance commuter...like me!

I did the same thing, already had my coat on, but I had to put on my scarf, my hat and my gloves. Then grab my purse, my bag with shoes in it, and my coke...oh yeah, and let's not forget my keys.

*Chirp!* Alarm set, my doors are locked.

Hike up to the building...then saw a co-worker and mentioned about the skies lighting up. He said there were others telling him the same thing...so I guess I must've been like, person # 10 or something. Guess I wasn't the only one who saw the skies lighting up like that.

Really cool!

(Wait a minute, is someone having triplets today? 3 girls? The skies did light up PINK!)

I take off my coat at my desk and I find the extra cash I had ...hiding in my coat pocket. Oh well. I can get a peppermint mocha later today. Eh.

Supposed to drop in temp today---I know the clouds were "clashing" up there and there was lightning there. It was pretty and really awesome (God of Wonder....beyond the galaxieeeeees...........).

Hey Amy in NY....yeah you, girl! Now I can tell you the weather. Today we're gonna get something pretty nasty and drop in temps so it's gonna be nasty and COLD! Below freezing tonight...or tomorrow. I'm really afraid to look at the weather report. So type in zip 49286 and you can see my town's weather report, how's that?!

Everyone: stay warm and safe, please! And be a good neighbor and make sure your sidewalks are shoveled and salted....people will thank you from the bottom of their hearts.

Surfin' the storm...

Surfing the Storm. A report by Kirstan. January 11, 2009.

Last Friday late afternoon was an adventure.

You know how people surf the waters in California, or Hawaii or Australia...(Florida too, I guess)...

Well, we have a winter version of that.

The family van is the surfboard.

The "waves" is the snowstorm.

We're surfing the edge of the storm until we reached north of Brighton....and all was calm....

We were really glad we were able to get out of there...it was extremely difficult and going probably no more than 45 mph on the freeway (our freeways let you go up 70 on a good day).

Got all set up for Deaf Cafe and then Saturday, the snow came....hit the Flint area. Well, we rode with a friend who has a 4 wheel drive. We were so thankful for that! Arrived at the place, and we practiced and prayed.

Well, the team members from the Ann Arbor area had to turn around and go home---the roads were so bad, 7 cars have gone off the road. So...they made the right decision.

Funny, the center we have our program at did not own a snow shovel (we agreed we'd buy one to keep in our Deaf Cafe trailer so we can shovel!) and they use push broom ...but that's not really much help. And it was really snowing hard.

7 brave souls showed up...and there were 12 team members there that night...so we went ahead and had a great program.

Sunday we decided not to risk driving until we gave the trucks time to clear the roads. So we visited a local church and then the roads were better on the drive home.

I was really amazed to see how much snow has come down....wow! Got home, and as much as I wanted to nap, I had to take care of some business and well...I never got my nap....

It's Monday today and well, I'm beat. I'm going to eat something and crawl in my warm bed....watch some stuff on TV and then ...off to saw some logs.

That is my report of what I did over the weekend.

The end.