Buckets of Snow

As the local readers are already too aware, we've had a few days with tons of snow. At the beginning of Christmas break, it was like this all day long on Monday. This week on Monday and Tuesday, it was deceptively light snow, but incredibly persistent. Shoveling three times a day didn't help. It just made for very large snowbanks on the side of your driveway.

Which I stuck my van into on Tuesday while trying to avoid the truck parked directly behind my driveway. I managed to high center the back bumper on the garbage can at the same time. It was pretty spectacular. Sebastian said "What do we do now?!" and I told him that we get out of the car and go back inside, because that van wasn't going anywhere. My goodhearted neighbor rang the doorbell soon after, and he had a plan. It took three of us to dig out the wheels, push from behind and drive off the garbage can, but it worked and we did it without any plaintive phone calls to Rob or intervention from the car club. When the same trucks came back the next day and parked in the same place, I called my neighbor (a different one who was having work done on her house) and told her to let her workers know that they were dealing with a California driver. And one whose husband had said "If they want to park right behind you on a snow day, go ahead and hit them!" They moved the trucks post haste.

This was the first snowwoman Rob and the kids made. She was named Spirit of Aloha. She toppled over a few hours later.

But like a phoenix rising out of the ashes, they used her remains to create Spirit of Aloha II. She's had a much better run.