Vyxxan's Virtual Venture

We don’t usually get this much snow in one winter. I won’t drive in the stuff, I’ve become a weather driving wimp in my old age. Seriously, though… I’ve gone to work only to find that my car won’t stop because they have ice and all we had was rain. So, when it snows or gets icey here, I stay home now. As long as the local schools are closed they won’t count it against me. (or so far, at least!)

Got up at a bit before 4 am this morning planning on going to work. Walk out to the living room where I can see through the window at my car and my car was covered in snow. At least 4 inches, and snow is still falling. Crikey! Can’t the weather guys get it right? It wasn’t supposed to start here until 6 am and this has been coming down for hours by the looks of things. I was gonna go to work and then keep a close eye on things and head home if it looked bad. I decided not to go after they closed the local schools.

From watching news reports all day, the roads were fine. Bit slushy is all… oh, and we have more snow here than where I work. That happens a lot around here. I got a foot of snow once in West Fork, and Springdale had maybe an inch… the job I was at back then was NOT happy with me for calling in. Hey, what can I do? My car can’t get out… I don’t own a 4WD or chains. I’m not risking my life… or risking wrecking my car by driving in it.

So I stayed home today. Got a lot of knitting done, and walked the beagle kids, too. Took the camera out early, and then again when I walked the beagle kids. Plenty of pictures, but could NOT get the photo I wanted of Sadie making snowballs by churning up the snow with her nose. She was doing this whole snow plow thing with her nose… but never when I had the camera out of my pocket.

More pictures… we did our usual walk, down around the pond and all. Underneath the snow there was quite a bit of water, and that melty stuff is gonna turn the roads into total ice slicks by morning. I’ll get up and check it out, but if I feel the least bit scared I’m staying home again. My job is gonna hate me.

I may not have these in the right order… but it’s all snow and all my beagle kids, lol!

They have a lot of fun running around… and they seem to like the snow!

I didn’t even mind walking around in it today… No snow forcing it’s way into my boots. I turned the edges of my coveralls under to fit tighter against my boots. Worked great.

Now, I know this wasn’t a lot of snow… and it wasn’t cold enough to make it stick to the roads like it usually does here. But it’s going to be a mess in the morning when it gets below freezing and freezes all that slush. What can I say? I’m a California girl, and the older I get, the more wimpy I get driving in bad weather. I’ve never been a really brave driver anyhow…. heavy rain will make me pull off the road. I’ve seen some heavy rain… rain that makes EVERYONE go slower… like 35 on the interstate. Well, except maybe the truckers and idiots that then wreck a few miles down. Seen it, don’t want it to be me. You ain’t getting me out there in conditions that can be worse with snow or ice.

Hope everyone enjoys the dog photos, though… they are such good furkids!

hugs,
Vyx

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