A good snow day

Well we've had some good snow coming down the past two days. Wednesday's record of 17 inches in 24 hours was short lived when Thursday loaded us with 19 inches. Wednesday night we were going to go caroling, but I decided to cancel after it took me an hour to drive 2 miles. I decided to leave work at 3:30 to avoid rush hour. I guess everyone had the same idea. I was driving DJ's subara (Bo) and had no problems starting, stopping, or braking. But a lot of people couldn't make it up the hill on Division and were blocking all three lanes of traffic. Once I finally got to them I was able to manever around them and finally got home. I stayed in for the rest of the night.

DJ came home from Ellensburg (where he is roofing a new stake center) Thursday morning. They had to help 3 stuck cars on their way up Division taking him home. We decided we needed to go out and get some snow shovels and try to find the rest of our winter gear in storage. DJ bought me some snow boarding boots and a pair of really nice gloves and he had an extra set of snow pants, so we both geared up and headed out. It took half an hour to dig Bo out. We park in our yard until we get out driveway poured, so when he backed out, he didn't "clear the driveway", he just plowed out. It was so cool. This was a day we wished we had a crew videotaping our life because we had a lot of cool moments. Our friend stopped by on his snowmobile. There were a lot out yesterday.

One of our duties while we were out was to shovel the driveway of a family DJ home teaches. They are a bit older and both have had health problems recently. The snow was up to my mid thighs by the time we started. Here are the before and after pictures. The garbage can gives you a good idea of how much snow we had so far.

This is my car buried under all that snow. It will probably stay like that till all this snow melts.



This is our sweet little home. Our tree looks so cool right now. DJ and I are going to take a walk later today and get some more good shots.

When we got home from shoveling we noticed all our neighbors we outside digging each other out and pushing the crazy drivers who tried to come down our street. It was awesome. We met all of our neighbors as we served each other. The lady who lives right across from us had been out since 6am digging out her neighbors. She was able to tell us some strange stories about our house. She was happy to find out we bought it and that we're planning on fixing it up. It was the "bad" house in the neighborhood.

After dinner we decided to venture out and look and Christmas lights. The Spokesman Review online has a list of "must see" homes. We only made it to two because of all the people stuck. While on the South hill we pulled a mazda out with Bo. Once we got downtown we went to Safeway to get some treats for DJ's work party today, but they were closed. We noticed this woman with a bicycle starting to leave. I knew she had a long ways to go and she wasn't going to get there with how deep the snow is, so we asked if she needed a ride. She lives in Medical Lake but was stranded in town because the buses stopped running. So we drove her to a couple of shelters, (Salvation Army was closed! I couldn't believe they were closed). After we got her to a safe place we saw another car stuck trying to get out of a parking lot. So Bo went to the rescue. The snow plows pile up the snow in the middle of Division, making it a two lane road, but we needed to cross Division to get to this car so DJ sped up and we plowed through the pile. We hit hard on the other side, but I think the point to be made is we made it! So we got them pushed back into the parking lot and saw two more cars stuck. One had stopped to helped a cute old man and now they both were stuck. So with the help of a 4X4 truck we were able to pull the two cars out (I'm pretty sure he cracked one of them though). The guy in the truck was not good in the snow. He's one of those people that thought because he had a 4X4 he was invincible. Well he wasn't and he got stuck. So we pulled him out with Bo. HAHA! It was so great. Had to help one more person as we came up Division but then we were home! We almost felt guilty knowing that there we many more stuck because they didn't realize that their car couldn't make it. But we were tired. It was around 11pm. We had rented Enchanted but both of us feel asleep before Amy Adams met James Marsden. After DJ's work party today, we're looking forward to doing it all over again.

I used to be a sceptic, but now I completely believe in the abilities of Bo.