“The RoseBouquet”

Last week the weather was so fine, I got eager to start my garden, and spent some time digging it up with a spade, about a 20-30 minute spell after lunch and again after supper. I was about half done. Then Thursday we began to hear about a big doozer of a snow storm to hit this area on Sunday. Friday evening the wind picked up and when I looked out of the window at midnight, behold, the ground was covered with white, and it still looked quite stormy.

Saturday dawned bright and sunny and everything turned to slush. Now the forecasters were saying that this big storm had by-passed us on the west, and was moving northward. We would just have rain on Sunday.

That was true, although there were icy patches in the morning. I had to scrape ice off the car for half an hour before starting out for church. I also had trouble with the padlock on my back gate being iced up. I managed to wiggle the key in and open it.

I thought now we’d go back to spring. Ha! Yesterday the winds were back, and the padlock was more trouble as I left to drive off for some errands and the office. When I came out of my office at 6 pm - Whoa! There was a full-blown snow storm in effect! My driver’s side car door was frozen shut and the once wiper iced up. But when I got to my gate, the padlock just would NOT open. I huffed and puffed on it, and got my key into it, but it would not turn. Finally when my fingers had had it, I drove around to the front and parked on the street in front of my house, praying of course, that no one will skid into it. That’s the main reason I’d taken to parking in the backyard; there’s been several such skidding accidents at this corner.

We are not having the quantities of snow first promised for Sunday, and the sun is supposed to come out tomorrow and things will warm up, but I tell you, today is a great day to have a home business, and no real need to go out anywhere!