More snow

We did have a wild snow storm Tuesday night, with some snow but mostly wind, preceded by rain and quickly falling temps, so we had a good layer of ice with snow on top of it. We had some excitement around here about midnight, when I heard the alarm clock make the noise telling me the power had gone out. Right after that I saw this bright light, but thought it was lightning, as they said that it was a possibility. Well, I woke up at 5 Wednesday morning, the power was still off, so when Everett woke up I told him, and he got up, dressed, pulled the generator out of the garage, and got it all hooked up, and running. We proceeded to get ready for the day. At 9 AM he came home to refuel the generator and noticed a tree that had broken off by the lines out back. As he was ready to leave the driveway, the power company truck pulled up behind him, and help was on the way. He was able to tell the guy where he thought the problem was, and they had it fixed in an hour. It was after all this that it occurred to me, that the bright light I had seen at midnight was the tree falling on the line!!

Most all the schools were closed Wednesday morning, so we did not have Coffee Break either. It was a bonus day for me to catch up with work around the house.

Things were mostly back to normal today, although the roads were still a bit icy as the temperatures were not warm enough for the salt to work. I did not have trouble up and back to Byron Center. Emma was her cute self as always. We had lots of fun most of the time. She was not too impressed with Grandma when I went in to her room about 1/2 hour after I had put her down for a nap. I walked in the room to find her diaper on the floor and her onesie hanging open. She has not figured out yet that a bare butt makes for a painful spanking, but that is what she got. She was so sad. At least she had not wet the bed, or it could have been more troublesome for her. She did fall asleep very quickly after that, and was all smiles when I got her up. Some lessons are just so hard to learn, and I wonder when she will figure out that the same results occur every time she does it!!

This evening we met up with friends in Ada so we could drive to Rockford to go to the funeral home. Traffic was slow about half of the way, due to slippery roads. We saw our friends at the funeral home, and then stopped on the way back at the Rio Grand Steakhouse for dinner. We had a nice time. We got out about 8:30 and the snow was really coming down. We are supposed to get 6-10" of snow by sometime tomorrow.