Rain, rain, go away!!!

I love snow.  It’s pretty, bright white blankets of fluff covering the ground, deck, rocks and evergreen trees.  I could sit and look at it all day long. Sigh…

And then it starts to rain.  NO! Not rain! Aw man!  I DO NOT like ice.  A thick hard sheet of slippery fun covers the yard, driveway and deck. 

I don’t think much of it.  I’m taking some of my kids to play board games with their Great Gramma.  We load into my sister’s Jeep and I put it into 4 wheel drive.  Nothing is sanded yet.  I’m thinking it’ll be just fine since my car can drive on it, right? WRONG!

Almost as soon as I start down the driveway the Jeep starts to slide.  I tap on the brakes to see if it’s going to help at all.  Um NO! Nope! I take my foot off the brake. Now I’m sliding sideways….down the drive way. 

Alyssa is freaking out, just a bit.  She scares so easily.  Colin says, “Um Mom?” Like he wonders if I realize that we’re sliding.  Haha! Yeah…

We stop at the bottom of the driveway; thankfully.  I decide to be brave and try to keep going.  I get the Jeep going in the right direction and start slowly driving.  I’m sliding all over the icy road.  Yep.  I’m not going anywhere.  I pull over and stop to let Gramma know that we won’t be able to make it this time. 

I very carefully and slowly start turning the Jeep around.  Back up. Stop.  Pull forward. Stop.  Inch by inch I turn around and drive back up into the driveway; keeping the left tires in the snow on the side of the road as I go.  The Jeep slides as I turn it into its parking spot and then comes to a stop.  Sigh.  Well THAT was fun! 

We all get to spend some time sanding!  I think this is the ONLY part of winter I don’t enjoy.  Haha! ICE!

Even a week after that ice came, it still covered the driveway.  Some small patches had melted.  Bring me snow…ANY DAY…instead of ice!