Cold Enough To Freeze Snot

Well yesterday was pretty uneventful. We hit a high of like 27 degrees & I don’t think the wind chill ever came above 5 or 10 degrees. The wind was sustained at like 30 or so mph & gusting to 45 or 50 mph. I had to drain my waterbed in that last night. Not to long ago I noticed the structural beam in the living room starting to bow from the waterbed directly above it. A 100-year-old farmhouse was not built for all that weight. By my calculations I had at least 1,457.75lbs or more on that beam. We opted to get a traditional mattress that weighs quite a bit less. So I had to drain the waterbed last night & set up our new bed. To my surprise we slept pretty good, well as good as you can with a newborn.

This morning it was still freezing cold out. I went out & started my truck so it would be toasty warm when I left for work & when I finally left I got stuck. My sissy two-wheel drive little four-banger lightweight truck can’t take a little ice. My truck had been sitting in they yard since the storm came through on Tuesday. Well with the really cold temps & warm tires from driving home on Tuesday created a bond to the snow that was already on the ground. Since we have not topped 25 degrees since then the yard was fairly slick. Well I managed to spin & slide my way further into the yard. I was late & didn’t feel like messing with it. I shut it off, jumped in the jeep & it was off to work. I guess I will have to get Jeremy to bring all of his sand bags over so I have some weight to get out of the yard.

Only six more days until A-Day, Woohoo Alex-paloza is almost here. Let’s say you & me get the party started early, almost like a pre-celebration. It will be a short holiday, so lets start the party now. It’s like Christmas, the excitement builds & builds, you start listening to Alex-carols, & decorating for Alexmas. You bake all sorts of cookies decorated in Alex’s likeness, & send all your loved ones cards expressing your excitement & love for one another & the holiday. Alex just brings us all together. With all the hype & excitement the day arrives & it is everything you dreamed it would be & as the sun sets in the west everything just comes barreling down to a crashing end. The realization the Alexmas is over. You have to go to work in the morning & Alex is gone until next time, but when he returns the party starts again.