Ice, Ice, Baby

We were relieved when we looked out the window this morning that the Winter Weather Advisory did not dump any snow on us overnight. But then we drove out on the road and fishtailed and knew we had an invisible gag gift from Ol' Man Winter.

When hubby says things like, "This isn't good," I promptly grip the door handle, say a prayer and hope for the best -- all the while breathing deeply and slowly to appear calm. (It's not easy to do for a 50-minute drive that could take much longer with these road conditions!)

So a few minutes from home we always drive through beautiful downtown Kellner -- a wide spot in the road with two bars on the right-hand side and a gas station and the school district's bus garage on the left. When we drove past this morning, I immediately noticed all the buses were sitting in the garage and there were no driver vehicles parked across the street. Could school be late today? Or Canceled?

By the time we found a radio station actually announcing closings, we had made it out to and onto the slick main highway. When we heard Rapids was closed, it didn't take much of a discussion to agree to turn around and skate back home. As predicted, the temps did drop all day and some snow fell onto the ice. I'm sure tomorrow won't be much better but hopefully they'll salt the heck out our route anyway.

The extra day home turned out to be a blessing in disguise for Carter, who had hundreds of pages to read in a book before the end of this week. He and Daddy did take a break to help get the sled run next door in good shape, but he's down to about 70 pages now. He'll have time tonight because his basketball game was canceled, so was our nephew Colin's game and Clay's concert, too. So we'll be home.

Unfortunately, they rescheduled the concert for tomorrow morning so we'll miss that. I have a feeling Carter's league won't even make up his game but you never know. Some of this ice might melt by the end of the schedule in February so they can tack on an extra week.

I said "might."