Sunday, February 3, 2008

What? No Church??



It is a first for me. I have lived in this area most of my life, and this is the first time I can recall church being cancelled. Of course, I guess it could have happened sometime before I have memory I can get to in my ever-shrinking brain, say like before I was about 30. Seriously, unless it was when I was a small child, it hasn't happened before. I don't really know how much snow is outside because I haven't gotten dressed and ventured out, but it looks like a respectable amount; although after seeing Sun Valley a couple weeks ago, it hardly qualifies as "a ton" of snow. We have some kind of windtunnel across the front sidewalk of our house, so we get some amazing drifts. The drifts make it hard to judge how much snow is really out there, because from the front window it looks like two feet! I think if we were in northern Idaho or eastern Idaho, we would be trudging off to church, but for this area, I guess this much snow is considered too treacherous.
So what to do on a church snow day? Brent still had meetings and has been there since 7:30 a.m. Dalin has gone out with the young men in the ward to shovel some ward folks out of their houses. Jensen is watching Thomas the Train or whatever he's called, and the girls are still sleeping. I should have gotten them up to shovel, but they would have had to do it with their hands. Who would have guessed that we could ever have used more than one snow shovel around here? And this isn't the first time I've thought that this month. . . . Crazy. Is this El Nino, or El Nina, or global cooling, or El Just a Truckload of Snow? Looks like another school snow day tomorrow. Argh.

4 comments:

Becca said...

like I told someone a while ago, get in the snow day spirit! just another day to have family bonding time! were having our own church here at our house at 1:15 or sooner. My mom, dad, and daniel went and shoveled as well. See yah! Becca

Lynette said...

I am with Becca.....get in the snow day spirit girl!!! You are draggin me down!!!

hehehehe!

Laurie Nelson said...

This weather is insane. It brings back awful flashbacks of the winters in Idaho Falls and Salt Lake. They are painful memories. I suppose we will survive but I am looking forward to Spring.

liz said...

I personally, am still watching and waiting for that "fortold" (By Gore, of course) "Global Warming". This weather is far too cold! We, too, have wished for numerous shovels this month. We didn't even buy a snow shovel for the first few years of our marriage, so what irony!