Snow...SUCKS!!!

"Oh look how pretty and beautiful it is out there...oh look at the pretty pictures of our house covered in snow..." PHOOEY!

A lot has happened in the last 24 hours, so I'll try to keep this post brief. I started to write it last night, but got distracted...here's how far I got:

I’m sitting on a bus right now. It’s 7:45pm. I left work at 5:00pm. I usually take two different buses - but tonight my first bus was late/out of action due to the snow, so I walked the 1.25 miles to my 2nd bus stop and waited there for about 30-45 minutes before I caught my 2nd bus (it was cold!) - got on my 2nd bus around 6pm. I’m only at Northgate right now (a little over half way home). And my iPod battery died an hour ago. What's worse is that I have to go to the bathroom. Really bad. So, the beautiful pictures of snow aren’t so beautiful to me now…I just want to get home! But, I guess I should be thankful…Sonja’s bus got in an accident and hit a car. She’s okay, but I’m sure it was a bit of an experience for her. Scary! She’s home safe now, though. I hope to make it eventually… Oh, and our bus just started spinning out.

We were stuck in that spot for a while. The freeway was a sheet of ice. Finally, our bus started to jackknife (it was one of those extended buses that flex in the middle) and couldn't go any further. After a while another bus pulled up and we got off and transfered (all in the middle of the freeway mind you) to the new bus. I didn't walk in the door until 10:15pm last night...and headed straight for the bathroom.

So this morning I decide that I am definitely WFH (working from home). I chained the car up and drove Sonja to work this morning, though. After that I had a dentist appointment (that I almost forgot about). The exciting part was when I pulled in from the dentist appointment. As I got out of the car I heard this "pppshhhhhhhhh". Huh...that's a funny noise. I looked around and saw we now had a decorative water fountain where our outside water faucet used to be. The faucet was on a pipe that came straight out of the ground - the pipe had cracked. I went to call my landlord and then remembered that we own the house and I am the landlord. So, after sobbing for a few minutes and calling a couple people wiser than myself (thank you Eric and Jim!), I proceeded to do the following - found our shut-off valve, dug the dirt away from our shut off valve (the "ppsshhh" sound goes away), went in and warmed up by the fire, dug the dirt away from the water faucet pipe, cut off the pipe below the crack (God bless the Sawsall), warmed up by the fire, drove to three places before finding the part I needed (God bless the Galvanized Compression Coupling), got home, heated up the now frozen stub of a pipe, assembled the compression valve and other pieces of pipe, and, finally, warmed myself up by the fire. Then it was time to go pick Sonja up from work. Yup, it took me all day. I'm new.

So, I'm now ready to sell the house and move to California or Florida. Of course, more snow is expected tomorrow, too. And, tonight the temperature is supposed to drop into the teens. Stupid snow.



(originally posted by Tycen)

Snow!

Last night Sonja and I went out and played in the snow...and of course took pictures. That's when I said, "we need to do a blog". So here it is!

This first post is really just going to be pictures of our house in the snow. :)

(originally posted by Tycen)