Live Blogging My Snow Day!
Well, The Incubator (what I call preschool) is closed today due to weather, so I'm home with the little one. She is still snoozing, the snow is falling, the power is still on, and I am working on a number of projects:
6:42 AM: Drinking coffee. Don't want to just jump into things.
7:42 AM Boss called and said power is out at the shop! That makes it a guilt free snow day!
Corn beef hash and over easy eggs for breakfast.
Listening to The Patriot.
7:49AM Sweeter Half sez, "Live blogging your snow day?! You are a geek!"
8:15AM Little Girl just woke up.
8:30AM A Banana and Peanut Butter Toast for breakfast.
9:46AM Snow, Snow, Snow...One of the neighbors parked in the street and got plowed in BIG TIME! I have to laugh because they had plenty of room in the drive way. Child is watching Miffy, I'm working of sermon prep, Sweeter Half is doing dishes.
10:28AM Played guitar for a while.
10:45AM Looks like it's starting to lighten up out there. Guess I should go fire up the snow blower. I have an ancient snow blower: Steel auger, no saftey devices. It well rip your arm clear off if your stupid enough to stick your arm into any of the moving parts. Prediction: Tonight there will be a news segment on people loosing fingers and such to the snow blowers.
12:54PM Stupid Fricken' Snow Blower. Started first pull. Had to do a little carb adjustment, no biggie. I saw the older neighbor guy out shoveling, so I thought I'd do the good deed, and went over a blew out his driveway. Came back, did 2 passes on mine and the recoil starts grinding and throwing sparks. I shut her down, trying to save it, but alas, the recoil is locked up tight.
4:02PM Earlier, I after my snow blower went down, I went to move my truck so I could more easily shovel. I drove around the block and saw my Iraqi neighbors out with a broken shovel trying to move snow. I went back around to my place, grabbed decent shovel, and went back to help. It turns out that they had a snow blower, but didn't know how to start it. I fired it up for them, helped them finish up their driveway and asked to borrow it.
So, I bring it back around to my place, get about half of my driveway blown out, and the blower locks up.
Great. I was trying to get my driveway blown out in hope of finding my keys. Some time in the day I lost my truck keys, and I'm sure they are buried in the snow. I figured I'd find my keys by flinging them across the yard with a snow blower.
I got their snow blower running again and brought it back. I hope I didn't ruin it.
That's it for live blogging today.
| 1. Building a new portable grill, so I'm ordering parts today. |
| 2. Sermon Prep. |
| 3. Cleaning up the Office/Overflow area. |
6:42 AM: Drinking coffee. Don't want to just jump into things.
7:42 AM Boss called and said power is out at the shop! That makes it a guilt free snow day!
Corn beef hash and over easy eggs for breakfast.
Listening to The Patriot.
7:49AM Sweeter Half sez, "Live blogging your snow day?! You are a geek!"
8:15AM Little Girl just woke up.
8:30AM A Banana and Peanut Butter Toast for breakfast.
9:46AM Snow, Snow, Snow...One of the neighbors parked in the street and got plowed in BIG TIME! I have to laugh because they had plenty of room in the drive way. Child is watching Miffy, I'm working of sermon prep, Sweeter Half is doing dishes.
10:28AM Played guitar for a while.
10:45AM Looks like it's starting to lighten up out there. Guess I should go fire up the snow blower. I have an ancient snow blower: Steel auger, no saftey devices. It well rip your arm clear off if your stupid enough to stick your arm into any of the moving parts. Prediction: Tonight there will be a news segment on people loosing fingers and such to the snow blowers.
12:54PM Stupid Fricken' Snow Blower. Started first pull. Had to do a little carb adjustment, no biggie. I saw the older neighbor guy out shoveling, so I thought I'd do the good deed, and went over a blew out his driveway. Came back, did 2 passes on mine and the recoil starts grinding and throwing sparks. I shut her down, trying to save it, but alas, the recoil is locked up tight.
4:02PM Earlier, I after my snow blower went down, I went to move my truck so I could more easily shovel. I drove around the block and saw my Iraqi neighbors out with a broken shovel trying to move snow. I went back around to my place, grabbed decent shovel, and went back to help. It turns out that they had a snow blower, but didn't know how to start it. I fired it up for them, helped them finish up their driveway and asked to borrow it.
So, I bring it back around to my place, get about half of my driveway blown out, and the blower locks up.
Great. I was trying to get my driveway blown out in hope of finding my keys. Some time in the day I lost my truck keys, and I'm sure they are buried in the snow. I figured I'd find my keys by flinging them across the yard with a snow blower.
I got their snow blower running again and brought it back. I hope I didn't ruin it.
That's it for live blogging today.
Posted by Surly Dave on
Monday, March 13, 2006
I didn't know that you played the guitar. The last time that the electricity cut I picked up my six string and tried to remember some of my old tunes. The word "rusty" is far too charitable.