FOUR HOURS!

Yes, that is the time it took for me to get home from work on Friday night. I am thinking someone needs to set mother nature straight because this whole snow for spring is really getting old.

We finally left work at 2:00pm and they weren't even plowing the roads yet. So we got to mom and dad's driveway, say oh about 4:30pm. So 2.5 hours to travel, what 45 miles? Sweet. Mom says she will walk up the driveway in the two feet of snow, but being the wonderful daughter I am I decided that would really suck. I slammed the gas and was *THISCLOSE* to making it up the hill. But alas, I got stuck. We dug with the ice scraper and I pushed the car out. Too bad we didn't go STRAIGHT back down our original tracks, so we got stuck again and had to wait it out until Friedrich came with the plow truck.

Finally got mom up to the house and headed home to find 3 feet of snow piled up at the end of the driveway from the plowtruck. I backed into the neighbors driveway across from ours and gave 'er the beans. Too bad I almost got sucked into the ditch on the side of the driveway. So I walked up to the house and got the shovel. Got out from that mess only to get sucked towards the house and had to stop or take out our bedroom wall. Dug myself out again. FINALLY got into the garage. (90% of this was all done in 4" heels. Now THAT is talent.)

I got bundled up to go and snowblow the driveway. First the darn thing wouldn't start, so I figured I would shovel for a bit then come back and try again. I got it running only to find out that the snow was far to deep and heavy for the snowblower to even work! AGH!!!

I ended up shoveling from the corner of the house to the road and gave up before my arm fell off. I was eating dinner (since it was now about 8:00) and I hear a four wheeler. It's ADAM! I have never been so glad to see him in my life!

Of course in my appreciation, I promptly went inside and baked him some carrot cake. I have also decided that I will not be shoveling any more until next winter. I absolutely refuse. Poor Sadie can't even go outside to go potty because all the snow is over her head!

So here is your reminder Mother Nature. It is SPRING! Please adjust your temperatures accordingly.